WSJ: Trump Org Is Lying About US-Made Trump Phone

June 16, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

The Wall Street Journal reports:

When the Trump Organization said it would launch a mobile-phone service, it also said it would sell a $499 T1 Phone beginning in August with some specs that beat the current top iPhone. A press release said the gold Android phone would be “proudly designed and built in the United States.” The question is: how?

In April, when President Trump unveiled his sweeping tariffs, we investigated what it would take to make an iPhone in the U.S. Supply-chain experts agreed the U.S. would need years and many billions of dollars to establish the factories and skillsets needed to match China’s output. And even if it were possible, the labor and infrastructure costs would be astronomical, leading to phones whose build costs are many times as high as the iPhone’s.

A spokesman for the Trump Organization said in an email that “manufacturing for the new phone will be in Alabama, California and Florida.” “You can build these phones in the United States,” the Eric Trump told podcaster Benny Johnson on Monday morning on The Benny Show after holding up a gilded device that looked just like an Apple  Phone.

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