Maurice8th
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Maurice8th
@maurice8th
SAG-AFTRA member. Voice actor on various productions. What's a vacation?
NYC Katılım Şubat 2009
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I am the Head of Product at Trump Mobile. There is no product. I have the best job in America.
590,000 people paid $100 each to preorder a gold phone that does not exist. That is $59 million. My KPI is deposit velocity. I have a whiteboard in my office that says DEPOSIT VELOCITY. There is nothing else on the whiteboard.
We announced the phone June 2025. Gold case. American flag on the back. "Made in the USA." Ship date: August. I moved it to November. Then December. Then Q1 2026. Then mid-March. Each time I sent 590,000 people an email that said "exciting update." The exciting update was that the phone still did not exist. In April I deleted the ship date from the website entirely. I got a standing ovation on the all-hands. That was our most successful product milestone.
The phone is a $499 gold Android. 50MP camera. 6.78-inch display. Fingerprint sensor. I have never held one. Nobody on earth has held one. We got the T1 certified for network compatibility in March. We celebrated like we'd shipped. We did not ship. We certified the concept of a phone. The network said: if this thing existed, it could connect. We called that a breakthrough.
On April 6th I updated the terms and conditions. "A preorder deposit does not guarantee that a Device will be produced or made available for purchase." Trump Mobile does not guarantee regulatory approval. Does not guarantee production. Does not guarantee delivery. Does not guarantee the phone will exist. The deposit is non-transferable and carries no independent cash value. I have the printout framed in my office next to the whiteboard. That is the only thing we have shipped on schedule.
"Made in the USA" lasted three months. Became "American-proud design." Then "designed with American values in mind." We manufacture overseas. Final assembly of 10 components happens in Miami. We counted putting the flag sticker on the back as one of the 10. While 590,000 people wait for their gold phone, we are currently selling refurbished iPhones. Made in China. With a Trump logo on the box. For $47.45 a month on T-Mobile's network. We are reselling another company's network at a patriotic markup. The plan is called the 47 Plan. The 47 is the only original thing about it.
An intern asked me last month when we are going to build the phone. I promoted her to VP of Customer Expectations.
Senator Warren wrote the FTC in January. I am not worried. We will have launched the next product before they finish reading the letter. That is always the math. I know the math because I have been watching it evolve for years.
Trump University promised education. Delivered weekend seminars in hotel conference rooms. 5,000 students. Settled for $25 million. That was version 1.0. You had to rent the room. You had to print the binder. You had to hire the speaker. You had to settle. Three entire obligations.
$TRUMP memecoin. No education. No binder. No room. Peaked at $75. Now $2.80. Down 96%. 1 billion tokens minted. 80% went to the team. 45 wallets gained $1.2 billion on launch night while everyone else watched their screens. For every dollar insiders made, retail lost twenty. That was version 2.0. You did not have to build anything. You did not have to hire anyone. You just had to press mint. Two obligations eliminated.
$MELANIA. Same model. Launched 48 hours later on the same audience. Down 99%. 24 wallets bought $2.6 million worth exactly 2.5 minutes before the First Lady's announcement. One wallet turned $681,000 into $39 million in 24 hours. The team controls 92% of supply. Her launch crashed her husband's token by 50% in the same hour. That was version 2.1. A patch, not a release. You did not even need a new customer base. You could cannibalize the last one.
WLFI. World Liberty Financial. The President's crypto project. Took $500 million from 600,000 wallets. Tokens locked. Cannot sell. Cannot transfer. Cannot leave. Team holds 73% of supply and votes to unlock itself. The project's advisor borrowed $75 million on a lending platform he co-founded. Using investor tokens as collateral. On a protocol where the project is 82.7% of total value locked. Other depositors could not withdraw. The President's family takes 75 cents of every dollar. That was version 3.0. You did not have to deliver anything. You did not have to pretend anything would go up. You just had to lock the door and keep the key. One obligation remaining: the smart contract.
Trump Mobile is version 4.0.
I did not have to mint a token. Did not have to write a smart contract. Did not have to lock a single wallet. Did not have to build a lending platform or freeze a billionaire or rig a governance vote. I put a flag on a gold rectangle that does not exist, opened a deposit page, collected $59 million from 590,000 Americans, and then updated the terms to say the deposit does not guarantee the rectangle will ever be real.
The version history, in case you are keeping score:
1.0 — Had to rent a room. Had to settle.
2.0 — Had to mint. Didn't have to build.
2.1 — Didn't even need new customers.
3.0 — Didn't have to deliver. They couldn't leave.
4.0 — Didn't have to promise. They paid for the flag.
Each version removes one obligation. University had three. We are down to zero. My product roadmap is one slide. It says DEPOSITS.
Version 5.0 will not need the webpage.
The phone was never the product. The deposit was always the product. The flag was the conversion funnel. The name was the close. The terms update was the only deliverable. "Made in the USA" was the positioning until it wasn't and then "American values" was the positioning until that stops working and then we will find new words that mean nothing and those will work too because the words were never the product either.
I am the Head of Product at Trump Mobile. I have never made a phone. I have made $59 million. The product is the transaction. Delivery is a legacy feature from version 1.0 and we deprecated it three versions ago.
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MAGA is melting down after buyers got an email confirming they will never get their Trump Phones, or even get their deposits back.
An estimated 590,000 people reportedly paid a $100 deposit each, roughly $59 million collected, and not a single confirmed customer has received a phone.
And remember, this thing was supposed to be “Made in America.” But if it ever gets made at all, it’ll reportedly be made in China.
Trump knows his base is full of suckers, and they keep proving him right.
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BREAKING:
🇺🇸 Donald Trump scammed 600k people: they ordered phones and he didn't deliver them - YF
Nearly 590,000 people paid $59 million in deposits for the Trump gold phone, yet a year later not a single device has shipped and the launch date has disappeared from the website
Trump Mobile’s updated terms reportedly now state deposits do not guarantee a phone will ever be produced or made available for sale.


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Trump is posted some kids stealing $50 dollars worth of candy at the Wawa.
If he thinks that's bad, wait til he hears about a billionaire who invented a shitty Memecoin, told all of his cult followers to buy it, then rugged-pulled it, and made off with a billion dollars while they all lost their money.
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@BlakeSNeff #petedavidson is a professional comedian but you're hypocritical saying nothing about #tonyhinchcliffe and his despicable jokes about #GeorgeFloyd. Your martyr #charliekirk stuck his neck out for nothing.
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On today's show we discussed Pete Davidson's joke about Charlie's death while roasting Tony Hinchcliffe. My take: I didn't like it, and I'm glad the audience wasn't into it, but there are other "jokes" we've seen that are clearly a lot more hateful in intent than Pete's, and a few bad-taste jokes about Charlie are the price we have to pay for how iconic he has become in American culture.
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@TheOfficerTatum When it it comes to a #racist POS like #charliecuck, #petedavidson was pushing comedy boundaries.....like this despicable administration.
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One of the greatest honors of my life was leading the dedication of President Donald J. Trump’s statue to the world.
What amazes me is how quickly some people have compared this beautiful statue, created and made possible by more than 6,000 patriots, to a golden calf or idol worship.
Let me be very clear.
We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone.
The Word of God says, “You shall have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3.
It also says, “You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.” Matthew 4:10.
That is the line.
Honor is not worship.
Respect is not idolatry.
Celebration is not bowing down to a false god.
Romans 13:7 says, “Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.”
Giving honor where honor is due is biblical.
Bowing down and worshipping an idol is sinful.
There is a major difference.
This statue was not created for worship. It was created as a symbol of resilience, patriotism, courage, and gratitude. It was created to honor a man whom many may disagree with, but millions of Americans believe has done extraordinary things to make this nation stronger.
People celebrate athletes, musicians, entertainers, and cultural icons while they are still alive. Michael Jordan has a statue in Chicago. Cristiano Ronaldo, Taylor Swift, Shakira, Ed Sheeran, and many others have been honored publicly in different ways. Yet Christians were not screaming “golden calf” over those moments.
So why now?
You may dislike President Trump. That is your choice.
But you are in gross error if you think for one second that I worship this magnificent statue or anything made by human hands.
Acts 17:24 says, “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.”
My worship belongs to God.
My gratitude can still honor people.
My faith is in Christ.
My respect for a leader does not replace my reverence for the Lord.
Before you judge, condemn, or spread false accusations, use spiritual discernment.
1 John 4:1 says, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God.”
Some of you know the voice of the Holy Spirit. Listen to that voice before you give room to the devil through lies, slander, and false judgment.
Ephesians 4:27 says, “Nor give place to the devil.”
We can disagree politically and still tell the truth spiritually.
This was not idol worship.
This was honor.
This was gratitude.
This was patriotism.
And above all, Jesus Christ is still Lord.

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What the actual hell?!
You’re the former DNC chair and you’re telling Black athletes to leave their schools because a Supreme Court ruling didn’t go your way?
Are you insane?!!!
You think Black kids belong to YOU?
You think their scholarships, their teams, their futures are political assets you can control?
That’s LITERALLY ownership language.
The SAME ownership language the actual Jim Crow used, by the way.
STOP WEAPONIZING KIDS.
It’s racist and unhinged.
Sit down.
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If Black voters and Black voices aren’t considered meaningful enough to fairly represent the South, then maybe we should reconsider representing the South on the football field and basketball court too.
.@SEC , don’t stay silent in the face of Jim Crow 2.0. Because once you open Pandora’s box, all kinds of things come out of it.
Or maybe it’s just time for our children and these young brothers and sisters to find new playing fields that actually respect their humanity, their voices, and their value.
@GavinNewsom @GovPritzker @SpanbergerForVA @iamwesmoore @JoshShapiroPA @GovWhitmer I’m sure y’all can find some scholarship $ for these talented young folks right?!
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@MatthewNichol5 You want to get #ericswalwell and #iihanomar mocked on #snl? Why don't you write the material and submit it? Stop #gooning in your mother's basement?
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