{"id":5441,"date":"2025-08-21T23:59:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-mobile-is-promoting-its-smartphone-with-terribly-edited-photos-of-other-brands-products\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:59:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:59:37","slug":"trump-mobile-is-promoting-its-smartphone-with-terribly-edited-photos-of-other-brands-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-mobile-is-promoting-its-smartphone-with-terribly-edited-photos-of-other-brands-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands&#8217; products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Since it was <ins>announced<\/ins> 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 <ins>highly unlikely from the start<\/ins> that it was accurate. The &ldquo;Made in USA&rdquo; claims were <ins>quietly removed<\/ins> from the Trump Mobile website at a later date. <em><ins>AppleInsider<\/ins><\/em> spotted the latest bizarre wrinkle to this story, which is that the actual phone still does not exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">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&rsquo;s branding overlaid. A third confusing image edit was <ins>posted<\/ins> on X earlier this week:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"><\/dialog><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">That photo shows a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra equipped with a case made by Spigen. The South Korean accessory company&rsquo;s logo can be seen behind the render of an American flag. Spigen&rsquo;s response sums our reaction up pretty succinctly: &ldquo;??? bro what.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands&rsquo; products<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it was announced 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 that it was accurate. The &ldquo;Made in USA&rdquo; claims were quietly removed from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-mobile-is-promoting-its-smartphone-with-terribly-edited-photos-of-other-brands-products\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands&#8217; products&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}