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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe American flag on the new Trump mobile phone only has 11 stripes
trump does not know or care about the American flag
The American flag on the new Trump mobile phone only has 11 stripes. How many original colonies were there?
— Molly Ploofkins (@mollyploofkins.bsky.social) 2026-05-19T17:19:07.497Z
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The American flag on the new Trump mobile phone only has 11 stripes (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
17 hrs ago
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LetMyPeopleVote
(182,351 posts)1. Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?
trump is an idiot and the Chinese company who manufactured this phone does now know that the US flag has 13 stripes. This is what you get when you have China manufacture this phone
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https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/931347/trump-mobile-t1-phone-logo-flag-stars-stripes
This has been a momentous few days for Trump Mobile, in which it defied the haters by announcing that its phones will be shipping to buyers this very week. Not that theres any sign the company has actually done that, but I digress. Because what I really want to talk about today is the American flag.
I am not an American, which probably explains why I didnt immediately realize that something in the T1 Phones design is off. And, no, I dont mean the gold finish, the uneven camera lens spacing, or the fact that it looks suspiciously like a two-year-old HTC phone. I mean the US flag that features prominently on the back. At a glance, to a non-native, it looks fine. But look closer, and theres something curious: It only has 11 stripes. Last I checked, there really should be 13.
The 13 stripes represent the 13 colonies that broke away from British rule to fight for independence, so you probably shouldnt just lop two of them off. Whats stranger still is that Trump Mobile changed its logo to introduce the error. Take a closer look at the near-final version of the phone I was shown in February, with its giant T1 logo (thankfully since removed), and youll see the flag at the bottom has the correct number of stripes. Someone at Trump Mobile changed the logo to take stripes out for the final release. Under a president who wants to criminalize flag-burning, thats skirting awfully close to the edge of the law.
I am not an American, which probably explains why I didnt immediately realize that something in the T1 Phones design is off. And, no, I dont mean the gold finish, the uneven camera lens spacing, or the fact that it looks suspiciously like a two-year-old HTC phone. I mean the US flag that features prominently on the back. At a glance, to a non-native, it looks fine. But look closer, and theres something curious: It only has 11 stripes. Last I checked, there really should be 13.
The 13 stripes represent the 13 colonies that broke away from British rule to fight for independence, so you probably shouldnt just lop two of them off. Whats stranger still is that Trump Mobile changed its logo to introduce the error. Take a closer look at the near-final version of the phone I was shown in February, with its giant T1 logo (thankfully since removed), and youll see the flag at the bottom has the correct number of stripes. Someone at Trump Mobile changed the logo to take stripes out for the final release. Under a president who wants to criminalize flag-burning, thats skirting awfully close to the edge of the law.
jmowreader
(53,416 posts)6. I think "Trump Mobile" is supposed to be the 13th stripe
lame54
(40,154 posts)2. Trump sold the other 2 to Russia
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,278 posts)3. Must get the Premium Plan for the rest of the stripes.
marble falls
(72,595 posts)4. They took off Puerto Rico and Guam's stripes.
biocube
(271 posts)5. He got upset with New York and Virginia
There's only 11 original colonies now.