Happy birthday to the Trump phone

From the time it was announced, connected June 16th, 2025, the Trump telephone sounded ridiculous. The T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), arsenic it was officially called, was a operation of contradictory specs, merchandise images that were intelligibly not photographs of a existent phone, and the worrying request of a $100 deposit to unafraid a preorder of a $499 telephone with nary merchandise date. But nary of Trump Mobile's outlandish announcements were arsenic bold arsenic the assertion that the telephone would beryllium "designed and built successful the United States."

The US has adjacent to nary telephone manufacturing infrastructure, fewer engineers with the required expertise, and small of the affordable, flexible …

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