{"id":86294,"date":"2025-08-22T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86294\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:10:07","slug":"trump-mobile-is-promoting-its-smartphone-with-terribly-edited-photos-of-other-brands-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86294\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands’ products"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since it was announced<\/a> in June, Trump Mobile has committed to an increasingly-surreal smoke-and-mirrors approach to its promised T1 smartphone. Despite the initial claims that the phone would be made in the United States, it seemed highly unlikely from the start<\/a> that it was accurate. The “Made in USA” claims were quietly removed<\/a> from the Trump Mobile website at a later date. AppleInsider<\/a> spotted the latest bizarre wrinkle to this story, which is that the actual phone still does not exist.<\/p>\n

The publication noticed that promotional images for T1 all show different smartphones that appear to be tweaked in a photo editor to look gold. While the website shows a badly edited image of what appears to be a Revvl 7 Pro 5G phone, an Instagram ad seems to depict an iPhone 16 Pro Max, again with the company’s branding overlaid. A third confusing image edit was posted<\/a> on X earlier this week:<\/p>\n

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That photo shows a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra equipped with a case<\/a> made by Spigen. The South Korean accessory company’s logo can be seen behind the render of an American flag. Spigen’s response sums our reaction up pretty succinctly: “??? bro what<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since it was announced in June, Trump Mobile has committed to an increasingly-surreal smoke-and-mirrors approach to its promised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64444,64,63,64445,203,105,64443],"class_list":{"0":"post-86294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-appleinsider","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-initial-claims","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-trump-mobile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}