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Trump Phone vs iPhone 17 - How Do They Compare?
Trump Phone vs iPhone 17 - How Do They Compare?
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The Trump Phone versus the iPhone 17. One of these is a real flagship phone. The other is… well,
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who knows. So what are you actually getting… and what are you not getting?
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First, Trump isn't just a phone, it's also a mobile service provider. Except... it kind of
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isn't? And the Trump phone isn’t a new phone. We’ll explain it all… there's a lot to unpack.
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Let’s start with Trump Mobile.
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Here’s what the plan actually says.
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Unlimited talk - sort of- text and data. Free SIM card, free shipping, no contract - and you can
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bring your own phone. You even get international calls to 100 countries, with absolutely no credit
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check. All this and... well that's it, nothing more, for just $47.45 as part of The 47 Plan!
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And the phone itself? We’ll get to that… because that’s where it gets weird.
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Trump Mobile is clearly a steal, given that it out prices pretty much all of the standard
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competition. For example, T-Mobile starts at around $40 to $60 a month, Verizon at $65 a month,
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and AT&T goes for $50-66 a month. How in the world did Trump Mobile build an international
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cellular network seemingly overnight and manage to price everyone out? Well, because they didn't.
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And once you see how it works, the price suddenly makes sense.
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In fact, Trump Mobile only exists digitally- there is zero infrastructure. Instead,
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the company takes the same route as many other smaller cell service providers that
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target lower income communities - they simply lease service from the major cell providers and
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their infrastructure. This means that they don't have the up-front cost of physical
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infrastructure to build and maintain which gets passed on to the consumer, like T-mobile.
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Seems like a win-win. But here’s what happens in the fine print.
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First, because Trump Mobile simply leases space on existing infrastructure, this means that when
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cell tower and satellite use is high during peak hours, you're going to be the first to get bumped
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over full-price paying customers. This is why your friends with Boost Mobile aren't responding to
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your texts between 2 and 6 pm - give it a few hours, they're basically on dial up speed. If
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you don't care about peak hour instagram use, then Trump Mobile may be a good deal for you.
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But if you're hoping to have reliable calls and fast internet speeds while the rest of the
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world is streaming a hilariously disappointing Stranger Things series finale, then forget it.
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And here’s the part nobody puts on the billboard.
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Per Trump Mobile's own terms of service, the mobile service's unlimited plans are
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subject to speed throttling after reaching data thresholds which are
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not clearly defined. You get to find out what happens by paying almost $48 a month.
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It appears that under the hood Trump Mobile is running mostly on T-Mobile infrastructure - though
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the company has worked hard to hide these details. It's also suspected they're also using
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AT&T hardware and possibly other major carriers. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, this can allow
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smaller brands to have greater coverage or more reliable coverage by using the best infrastructure
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in a region. But it also puts you into competition for bandwidth with even more paying customers of
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those big brands. Again, it comes down to when you expect to use Trump Mobile- if you don't
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use a cell phone much or only during off-peak hours, this is probably a good choice for you.
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Since you're mostly riding in T-Mobile's back seat, how good can you expect Trump
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Mobile coverage to be? Per the FCC, T-Mobile covers nearly half of the United States,
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or 1.9 million square miles (4.9 million sq km). It services 99% of Americans though who don't
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live in Bigfoot country, with 5G covering 36% of the nation and growing by the year.
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When it comes to plans, there's only one - The 47 Plan.
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For about $47 a month plus tax, you get one line and unlimited data… until you hit 20 gigs,
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and then your speeds get kneecapped. Unlike fancy, rich city folk plans from T-Mobile and AT&T,
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Trump Mobile caps out at 480p video streaming, which will be really impressive to all your
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friends from 1992. You do get unlimited minutes and texts, but no international data or airplane
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service - which let's be real, you probably don't need if you're buying Trump Mobile.
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The best way to compare this is to T-mobile,
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given that it rides on T-mobile's hardware for the most part.
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Let's look at the lowest tier plan, which is closest to Trump Mobile's
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single plan. The Essentials plan runs you $60 a month,
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but you can add a second line for only $30 and get a third line free as of the
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writing of this script. Trump Mobile only offers a single line, there's no option
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to add additional lines. Any additional lines require you to sign up for the full $47 plan.
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T-mobile will also give you an autopay discount, something Trump Mobile doesn't
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offer. Another plus on T-Mobile's side is the 50 gigs of data you get every month,
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which unlike Trump Mobile won't get you dropped if you exceed. Instead you get downgraded from
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peasant level streaming to serf level streaming, and will notice a drop in speed and quality.
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One advantage to Trump Mobile is that T-mobile doesn't offer international calling even in
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limited capacity for its essentials plan. While Trump Mobile typically offers restricted minutes
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of calling, T-mobile charges a flat $0.25 fee per minute. But if you're buying either plan,
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you probably don't have anyone international to call- unless you're on Trump Mobile and
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your farm's workforce has suddenly and unexpectedly gone international.
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Alright, now that we understand the sca- the service, what about the actual Trump Phone itself.
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Meet the T1 - it's time to make non-peak calling great again.
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The T1 is everything an American could want a phone to be. It'...s a phone,
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it has a 50 mega pixel camera, cutting edge features already developed years ago
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like fingerprint and face unlock. And best of all, it can be yours for only
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$100. Plus another $499 later - that's in the semi-fine print.
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Perhaps the best part of the Trump phone is that it can basically be anything that you
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want it to be, because it doesn't exist. There hasn't been a single manufactured
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Trump phone to date, so when comparing it to the Iphone 17 it has that going for it.
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One point to Trump phone for being of unlimited potential due to not existing,
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and one point to Iphone 17 for being a physical product that exists within our
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bubble of euclidean space/time. As a consumer it's up to you to decide which of these matters
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more to you. A Buddhist on the Five Paths of Seeing might argue the formless Trump
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Phone - with its unlimited potential - is worth more than any physical object
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with fixed traits. Once something exists, it’s basically immutable… pending software updates
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How else do they stack up?
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Right there on the official Trump Phone website we have the specs.. sort of. But our second point
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of comparison is the fact that the Trump phone is quote - Proudly American - end quote. We scoured
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Apple's Iphone 17 page and couldn't find a single claim of it being Proudly American.
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One bald headed screaming eagle point to Trump Phone.
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Note that the Trump Phone official page does not claim that the Trump Phone is Made in America.
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Rather that it is quote- proudly American- and quote- American-proud design... which
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we checked with various technology experts and no one could tell us what that means.
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The T1 as it's called is quote- designed with American values in mind- end quote. Yet no
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matter where you look on the website, does it say the phone is or will be manufactured in America.
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And all that wording isn't just bad, repetitive copy- it's on purpose, because the vast majority
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of phones are not manufactured in America. The US lost its cell phone manufacturing base
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back in the 90s and never got it back. While some phones are made in the USA,
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no modern cell phone with the features the T1 promises could possibly be made in America at
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the price point being quoted. It's simply not economically viable for an enterprise
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that's hoping to sell phones in the hundreds of thousands, not the millions like the big players.
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However, The T1 is quote- a bold step towards independence. Once more we
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scoured Apple's product description and found nothing about independence. Our
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founding fathers didn't fight the Germans on Iwo Jima to not have independence,
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so one lip-filler and silicone blond news anchor point to the Trump phone.
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Under the hood, the T1 is supposed to run on Android,
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while the Iphone 17 runs on IOS 26. Which operating system is better?
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Well if you check Android forums it's obviously Android 16, and if you check
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Mac forums it's obviously iOS 26. Which system comes out on top? We have no idea,
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we don't use either operating system - we summon spirits with powerful hallucinogenics
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and bloodletting rituals to give them messages to deliver on our behalf like normal people.
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Android has some better customization, while Apple tends to beat Android to
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the cultural punch by getting the best apps and features first. It’s really up to your
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preferences- remember to fight viciously and savagely about it in the comments.
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Displays are all-important in modern smart phones, which is why the T1 is packing a 6.25 inch (15.8
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cm) 120 Hz display... maybe. Possibly. It could be an etch-a-sketch for all we know, because again
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literally nothing is confirmed, there are zero technical details or plans officially released.
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The Iphone meanwhile features a 6.3 inch (16 cm) HZ ProMotion display. Iphone takes
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the point here for first, existing, and second, having a whole extra .05 of an
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inch (1.2 cm). How the screens actually compare to each other if the T1 specs are real depends.
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Apple has proven display technology that improves every year. At half the price,
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a Trump phone competing with Iphone 17 for quality is not encouraging.
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At its heart, a smartphone is powered by its processor and Apple is using the A19 chip,
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featuring 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU, along with a 16-core Neural Engine - which we have no clue
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what it does because we talk to women in the real world. Do you like ray tracing?
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Apple's got your ray tracing, built right into its pretty impressively powerful A19 chip.
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The Trump Phone is bringing... your imagination. What's powering the T1? It could be anything,
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it could even be a box. There has been no processor announced, but industry experts don't
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believe it'll pack anything more than a mid-tier android processor given its price point. If you're
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buying a discount phone, you're not getting premium performance. It's as simple as that.
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The Trump phone is supposed to be packing a 50 mega pixel camera, which beats Iphone 17's
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48 megapixel camera - you can be 2 megapixels more annoying on Instagram with a Trump phone
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than you can with an Iphone now. Except the Iphone 17 is cheating, because it's
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using advanced technology to actually fuse two cameras into one for much greater performance.
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The Iphone 17's cameras basically act as one, allowing the sensor to capture much
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more data and thus giving sharper images and greatly improved low-light performance. Behind
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the lenses is extremely powerful proprietary software working to glue the images together.
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The combination of hardware and software specs of the Iphone 17,
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and the fact that currently if you've put a down payment on a Trump phone
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you're recording memories on a sketch pad means the point goes to the Iphone 17.
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For battery, the Iphone 17 features a next generation lithium-ion battery with an impressive
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life of up to 30 hours of video playback, 27 if streamed. The battery is also fast-charge capable,
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with 50% charge in 20 minutes with a 40 watt adapter, or 30 minutes with the standard 30
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watt adapter. Due to new features, the Iphone 17 features a 17% less chance than normal over
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prior models of spontaneously combusting in your pocket and turning your sex organs into charcoal.
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Remember that? When Samsung products were randomly exploding?
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The Trump phone's battery lasts as long as your imagination does,
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because it too hasn't been announced. What is claimed is a 5000 mAh battery,
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which roughly translates to 25 to 28 hours of video streaming or 6-8 hours of playing games.
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When it comes to technical specs, the Iphone 17 clearly beats out the Trump phone, which is no
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surprise given the fact that it's just under double the price for the base model. But when
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it comes to physically existing, the Iphone 17 also takes the win. It's not exactly encouraging
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that Trump Mobile sells refurbished phones from other- real- manufacturers right on its website.
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The Trump phone was announced on June 16th of 2025 and there’s been no technical specs or
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prototype since then. So maybe the real Trump phone was the friends and vodka and steaks and
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mortgage companies and casinos and universities and phone companies- again- we made along the way.
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Now go check out The Indestructible Phone
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That Destroyed Its Own Company. Or click on this video instead.
