Trump Mobile T1 phone launches after months of delays and controversy over preorder deposits
By
Lisa Needham
Pure flour-power. Hearty enough to carry you through lunch.
Summary
The article is a scathing opinion piece about the launch of the Trump Mobile T1 phone. It describes how the company collected $100 preorder deposits from 590,000 people, delayed the product for months, and is now releasing a rebadged older phone targeting gullible MAGA supporters. The author criticizes CNET for treating it as a legitimate phone review rather than a cynical cash grab by the Trump family.
Key quotes
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All it seemed to take was some exceedingly bad press—even by Trump family business standards—about how the company convinced 590,000 suckers to pay $100 in preorder deposits, and then tried to never give it back.
For some inexplicable reason, CNET is testing the phone as if it were an actual new phone release, rather than the Trump family rebadging a random older phone in order to extract money from the most gullible and diehard MAGA types.
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