Trump once again provided a new exhibit in the ‘You Can’t Make This Stuff Up National Gallery.’ You know by now he’s going to offer Trump cell phones and service. It will of course be the best cell phone ever, with the best service ever. Anywhere and everywhere including the GULF OF MEXICO! Or America? Or ‘Mur-i-kuh? Wait. What? Have the toxic chemicals in whatever gunk Trump paints his face orange with finally fried what few working brain cells he has left?
Oh well. I’m not joking about the Gulf of Mexico thing. By now you’re aware that Trump says he’s launching his own mobile phone service and of course a ‘Trump Phone’ which will be available in August. We’ll see. People that shelled out for Trump Sneakers might be a tad gun shy about shelling out in advance for a Trump phone! Especially since he claims it will be made in America, but doesn’t have a facility that can make cell phones!
Not even master real estate guy/builder Trump can put up a factory, much less one capable of producing high-end electronics that fast. So that means he’ll have to (horrors) buy them from some FOREIGN factory! Hmmmm. I guess Trumpty would waive tariffs on his own product but still MAGAs will be torn. Support their turd-god emperor but buy a FOREIGN made phone to do so? What’s a MAGA to do? ‘Oh the humanity!’
In the meantime, as this article from the Independent the marketing of this new Trump grift is, or was moving full steam ahead. Since he’s got his very own social media platform already Trumpty started promoting is phone and service plan online. Alas, this is after all a Trump operation which means sloppy and/or half-assed. And Trump is famously a cheapskate so it’s a no-brainer he’d ‘borrow’ a service coverage map from another carrier. One that shows the gulf states. One that clearly labels said gulf as The Gulf of MEXICO! Oops… Of course, once the wisecracks started being posted online it was taken down and an error message appeared where that page used to be. Fortunately there are people who make sure to grab screen shots of such gaffes:
Well, I find that funny as hell and so have others:
“The new Trump Mobile coverage map was released today. It features the Gulf of Mexico!” one person wrote on X, sharing both screen grabs and video evidence of the gaffe.
“Trump family literally deleted an entire page off their grifting website because it showed Gulf of Mexico instead of Gulf of America,” one person wrote along with a laughing crying emoji.
Another chimed in to mock the situation, writing, “Trump probably does not remember by now that he renamed it.”
“They keep forgetting their own b*******.” another added.
Another social media user jibed: “It will always be the Gulf of Mexico. This is culture war BS.”
Well, there’s a ton of serious and even scary/disturbing news due to Trump and his incompetence. I just thought it would be nice to let folks start their day with a humorous example of Trump stumbling and bumbling about. Thoughts of MAGAs that will overpay for a hunk-of-junk phone and an overpriced cell phone plan already brings a smile to my face. Trump advertising it providing service in a place he says doesn’t exist is icing on the cake!
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“So that means he’ll have to (horrors) buy them from some FOREIGN factory! Hmmmm. I guess Trumpty would waive tariffs on his own product but still MAGAs will be torn. Support their turd-god emperor but buy a FOREIGN made phone to do so? What’s a MAGA to do? ‘Oh the humanity!’”
Why would they give a crap about where it’s made? After all, isn’t 90+% of all “Make America Great Again” merchandise (not to mention all the crap sold in the various Drumpf properties) made in places not called “the United States of America?” If the MAGAts can sport a “Make America Great Again” cap that was made (proudly!) in China and most of them already use (and have been using since even before Drumpf waddled down that escalator a decade ago) phones made in places not called “the United States of America” so why would let that little detail about a “Drumpf Phone-y” bother them?
I’m also curious about the supposed coverage area. I mean, I know a lot of providers cooperate with the towers and such (and current laws require the “big boys” to work with the smaller, independent providers) but how can the grifters behind this “phone service” actually guarantee ANY coverage when the service they’re offering (or, more accurately, planning to offer) doesn’t actually exist? I’m guessing the map was stolen from–I mean, generously loaned by–another service, merely rebranded with the Drumpf name so the morons/suckers who buy into this little scheme (designed solely to funnel more money into the Drumpf coffers) will think they’re really getting something.
Of course, if it’s a Drumpf scheme, we can be pretty well assured that the phones won’t work worth a crap. They’ll look all pretty (well, to a MAGAt, anyway) but will be more useful as a doorstop after a month of “service.”
I wonder if folks realize that if he does this it may very well be the ONLY phone and service Americans will have as he thinks himself in the roll of Kim Jong Un, Xi and Putin.
Ever since I heard about the Trump phone, I have been laughing. I don’t think they know what they are getting into. It is just like everything else he does–a Disaster.