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Showing Original Post only (View all)MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back [View all]
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile-t1-phone-scandal-1795914MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back
The T1 'Trump phone' promised a 'Made in the USA' build but left buyers without devices or refunds.
Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid £74 ($100) each towards a gold smartphone that, nearly a year on, does not exist.
The Trump Mobile T1 phone was announced in June 2025 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as a patriotic alternative to Apple and Samsung, retailing at £370 ($499) and promising a 'Made in the USA' build.
An estimated 590,000 buyers paid a £74 ($100) deposit to secure one, collectively handing the venture roughly £43.7 million ($59 million). As of May 2026, not a single confirmed customer has received the device. Now, a fresh wave of anger is spreading across MAGA forums after buyers received communication making clear that their money is, for all practical purposes, gone.
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Updated Terms Strip Buyers of Guarantees
The clearest signal yet that buyers may never see either a phone or their money came with a revised terms of service published on 6 April 2026. The updated document states explicitly that paying a deposit 'does not constitute a completed purchase and does not create a binding legal contract.' The payment is described as 'a conditional opportunity to buy the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it,' with the company retaining all control over whether a phone is produced at all.
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MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back [View all]
BlueWaveNeverEnd
18 hrs ago
OP
The phony marketed a phony phone to his phony cult. Not a smartphone, but a dumbphone!
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
16 hrs ago
#12
Fake news and clickbait? It's a deposit. The contract is illegal to start if they can keep a deposit
AZLD4Candidate
8 hrs ago
#34
The actual terms do say they can get the deposit back, and it will be refunded *if* they cancel the project.
sir pball
8 hrs ago
#37
George Carlin was right: Whomever coined the phrase "let the buyer beware was probably bleeding from the asshole."
AZLD4Candidate
7 hrs ago
#40
They'll come up with a new scam tomorrow and these MAGAts will fall for it, because Biden/Obama/Clinton.
AZLD4Candidate
15 hrs ago
#21