Post #2631029
2026-05-10 03:56 UTC
Replies (5)
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-05-10 04:01
its well known its a money laundering scheme from the billionaires/putin/ISRAELI backers, nothing more. much like his CASINOS were the vehicle for laundering russian money.
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@SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 05:07
You look at the sales numbers for the dumbest crap and it isn’t hard to believe.
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@hansolo@lemmy.today 2026-05-10 04:55
Not really. For a paltry $6 million gross, this wouldn’t be worth the risk from lawsuits. Regardless of what people signed from the preorders. Plus, have you meet any of his diehard supporters? They’re certainly on board with this. They already buy watches and other crap. While I appreciate the money laundering suggestion, there’s much easier ways to do that at a larger scale. The crypto scam, for example. Edit:yep, $60 million. My bad math. Far more worth it.
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@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2026-05-10 05:15
Well, there over 200 million adult US citizens, assume 1/3 are trump supporters that’s 60 million potential customers, it’s not unrealistic for 1% of them to have placed a $100 deposit on a trump branded phone. I’m just more surprised they decided to not ship anything. They could’ve simply gone to any ODM ordered a generic design but in gold color and called it a day. Heck they could run an actual MVMO sell some overpriced android phones as carrier branded devices, sell some overprice cell service, then sell the brand off to wash their hands of it and probably would’ve made far more than the paltry $6 million that they did make in pre-order deposits
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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-10 10:55
Sorry but are those 60000 as in 60k with a unusual (non western (EU)) decimal?