{"id":15068,"date":"2025-08-22T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15068\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:49:08","slug":"trump-mobile-is-promoting-its-smartphone-with-terribly-edited-photos-of-other-brands-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15068\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands&#8217; products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Since it was <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/god-help-us-donald-trump-is-launching-trump-mobile-and-plans-to-sell-a-phone-155830166.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/the-golden-trump-phone-is-almost-certainly-not-made-in-the-us-174536590.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:highly unlikely from the start;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highly unlikely from the start<\/a> that it was accurate. The &#8220;Made in USA&#8221; claims were <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/smartphones\/trump-mobile-drops-its-made-in-the-usa-claims-193917169.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:quietly removed;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quietly removed<\/a> from the Trump Mobile website at a later date. <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/25\/08\/21\/trump-phone-still-doesnt-exist-beyond-a-terrible-photoshop-job\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:AppleInsider;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">AppleInsider<\/a> 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&#8217;s branding overlaid. A third confusing image edit was <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpMobile\/status\/1957955640565068159\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:posted;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">posted<\/a> on X earlier this week:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Trump Mobile T1 ad showing a Samsung phone in a Spigen case\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"md:rounded-[10px]\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f9ca9200-7edd-11f0-bfa7-867085ea4b3d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\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 <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.spigen.com\/products\/galaxy-s25-series-case-thin-fit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:case;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">case<\/a> made by Spigen. The South Korean accessory company&#8217;s logo can be seen behind the render of an American flag. Spigen&#8217;s response sums our reaction up pretty succinctly: &#8220;<a data-i13n=\"cpos:7;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/spigen\/status\/1958570471022370864\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:??? bro what;cpos:7;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">??? bro what<\/a>.&#8221;<\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[13710,18,19,13711,17,279,82,13709],"class_list":{"0":"post-15068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-appleinsider","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-initial-claims","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-trump-mobile"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}