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The Mary Sue
Terrina Jairaj

Experts Cracked Open the Trump T1 and Found It Is a Blatant Clone of a Foreign Device, Proving the ‘Made in USA’ Promise Was a Total Scam

The Trump T1 smartphone, marketed as a fully American-made device, has been exposed as a near-identical clone of a foreign phone. According to VT, a recent investigation by NBC News, which involved a detailed teardown of the device, revealed that the T1 is essentially a rebranded HTC U24 Pro, a phone manufactured by the Taiwanese company HTC. This discovery directly contradicts Trump Mobile’s initial claims that the phone was “made entirely right here in the U.S.”

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