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Eugene

(67,355 posts) Tue May 26, 2026, 06:00 PM 7 hrs ago

Trump's 'Golden' Phone Hit With Savage Reviews

hat tip to Jesse Dollemore

One reviewer says the gold appearance varies by viewing angle from mustard to "urine test yellow."

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Source: The Daily Beast

Trump’s ‘Golden’ Phone Hit With Savage Reviews

Cameron Adams
Tue, May 26, 2026 at 3:11 AM EDT

The long-delayed golden Trump Mobile phone looks nothing like the advertised image, has a smaller screen than promised, and its color leaves a lot to be desired, according to one of the few people to lay eyes on a real one.

The $500 Trump phone has now been delivered to tech media for review, one year after it was announced and nine months after its hard launch to cash-rich MAGA diehards.

Not only is the screen smaller than expected, but the phone is also not made in America as promised, Patrick Holland, the managing editor of tech site CNET, told CNN. Rather, Holland added, the packaging says the phone is “designed with American values in mind.”

Holland reviewed the phone on CNN on Monday after spending the day testing it, and the news was not good for customers.

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Read more: https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/articles/trump-golden-phone-hit-savage-071151234.html

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Trump's 'Golden' Phone Hit With Savage Reviews (Original Post) Eugene 7 hrs ago OP

Tech Experts Are Savaging Trump Phone: "IT'S LIKE A URINE SAMPLE!" - Jesse Dollemore Eugene 7 hrs ago #1

It's a fucking piece of shit just like the pedophile himself Blue Owl 6 hrs ago #2

The Trump phone American flag has eleven stripes Norrrm 5 hrs ago #3

One promise is being kept... It costs $500. Norrrm 5 hrs ago #4

It's a banana phone. A "Bunch" of low-tech science for 500 dollars. chouchou 4 hrs ago #5

"There's a sucker born every minute." Squaredeal 4 hrs ago #6

Eugene

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1. Tech Experts Are Savaging Trump Phone: "IT'S LIKE A URINE SAMPLE!" - Jesse Dollemore

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2026, 06:01 PM

7 hrs ago

May 26, 2026
Jesse talks about the ongoing saga of scams surrounding Donald Trump’s mobile phone grift. A few tech reporters have gotten their hands on the T1 phone and are lambasting it as the terrible item it is. One reporter from CNET said, “Sometimes it looks like those gold coins that Scrooge McDuck would jump into for DuckTales. Other times, it’s got a mustard vibe to it, and yet other times, it kind of looks like a urine sample.” He went on to say, “While a couple of us in the media do have it, I can‘t find many cases of actual customers who put their money down to order the phone with the phone.”