Trump Mobile Is Promoting Its Smartphone With Terribly Edited Photos Of Other Brands' Products

Since it was announced successful June, Trump Mobile has committed to an increasingly-surreal smoke-and-mirrors attack to its promised T1 smartphone. Despite nan first claims that nan telephone would beryllium made successful nan United States, it seemed highly improbable from nan start that it was accurate. The "Made successful USA" claims were quietly removed from nan Trump Mobile website astatine a later date. AppleInsider spotted nan latest bizarre wrinkle to this story, which is that nan existent telephone still does not exist.

The publication noticed that promotional images for T1 each show different smartphones that look to beryllium tweaked successful a photograph editor to look gold. While nan website shows a severely edited image of what appears to beryllium a Revvl 7 Pro 5G phone, an Instagram advertisement seems to picture an iPhone 16 Pro Max, again pinch nan company's branding overlaid. A 3rd confusing image edit was posted connected X earlier this week:

That photograph shows a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra equipped pinch a case made by Spigen. The South Korean accessory company's logo tin beryllium seen down nan render of an American flag. Spigen's consequence sums our guidance up beautiful succinctly: "??? bro what."