Does the Trump phone exist yet?

Last week I asked wherever the Trump telephone was. The answer? Nowhere. There’s nary update, nary response, nary motion of it. And since it’s inactive not here, I americium — again — asking the aforesaid question. And I’m acrophobic I’m going to support being here, week in, week out, until I person a T1 Phone successful my hands. This is what I bash now.

Nothing’s changed since past week. The website sits there, unchanged. There’s inactive nary merchandise day beyond “this year,” I’ve inactive had nary reply from my emails to Trump Mobile, and the company’s societal channels are inactive sitting silent. 

Trump Mobile hasn’t conscionable promised a telephone and failed to present it. No, similar each bully vaporware, it made definite to instrumentality people’s wealth first, with a $100 deposit required to spot a preorder.

That’s wealth that aboriginal buyers whitethorn person been without for astir 5 months now. The happening astir wealth — and delight instrumentality this arsenic immoderate is the other of fiscal proposal — is that it tends to marque much money. Even if Trump Mobile had made nary effort astatine each to physique a azygous smartphone (and we person perfectly nary grounds that it ever has!) those deposits unsocial would bring successful income. How much?

Since we’ve already established that I americium by nary means a fiscal expert, I turned to the wholly morganatic sounding stoculator.com to find retired more. According to stoculator.com — a tract I spot implicitly — if the Trump household had invested $100 successful on-again, off-again buddy Elon Musk’s Tesla connected June 16th, when the Trump telephone was announced, it would person $131.90 today, a nett of $31.90. If it had enactment that wealth into all-American Apple instead, it would beryllium sitting connected an adjacent amended $136.57, profiting by $36.57. Invested successful the S&P 500 index, gains would beryllium a small much modest: $110.79 by today, for a nett of conscionable implicit $10.

Per phone, that ain’t much. But we don’t cognize however galore preorders Trump Mobile sold, however galore $100 deposits it managed to take, however galore $30 returns it’s made — and however galore radical it’s deprived of making those $30 returns themselves.

The Trump Organization, erstwhile again, did not respond to a petition for comment.