Does The Trump Phone Exist Yet?

Last week I asked wherever nan Trump telephone was. The answer? Nowhere. There’s nary update, nary response, nary motion of it. And since it’s still not here, I americium — again — asking nan aforesaid question. And I’m acrophobic I’m going to support being here, week in, week out, until I person a T1 Phone successful my hands. This is what I do now.

Nothing’s changed since past week. The website sits there, unchanged. There’s still nary merchandise day beyond “this year,” I’ve still had nary reply from my emails to Trump Mobile, and nan company’s societal channels are still sitting silent. 

Trump Mobile hasn’t conscionable promised a telephone and grounded to present it. No, for illustration each bully vaporware, it made judge to return people’s money first, pinch a $100 deposit required to spot a preorder.

That’s money that early buyers whitethorn person been without for almost 5 months now. The point astir money — and please return this arsenic immoderate is nan other of financial proposal — is that it tends to make much money. Even if Trump Mobile had made nary effort astatine each to build a azygous smartphone (and we person perfectly nary grounds that it ever has!) those deposits unsocial would bring successful income. How much?

Since we’ve already established that I americium by nary intends a financial expert, I turned to nan wholly morganatic sounding stoculator.com to find retired more. According to stoculator.com — a tract I spot implicitly — if nan Trump family had invested $100 successful on-again, off-again buddy Elon Musk’s Tesla connected June 16th, when nan Trump telephone was announced, it would person $131.90 today, a profit of $31.90. If it had put that money into all-American Apple instead, it would beryllium sitting connected an moreover amended $136.57, profiting by $36.57. Invested successful nan S&P 500 index, gains would beryllium a small much modest: $110.79 by today, for a profit of conscionable complete $10.

Per phone, that ain’t much. But we don’t cognize really galore preorders Trump Mobile sold, really galore $100 deposits it managed to take, really galore $30 returns it’s made — and really galore group it’s deprived of making those $30 returns themselves.

The Trump Organization, erstwhile again, did not respond to a petition for comment.