A promotional look at Trump Mobile’s T1 phone shows an American flag with 11 stripes, and one shot appears to show nine. The inconsistencies, alongside shifting phone details across images and videos, are renewing skepticism about whether phones are actually r
The latest promotional push for Trump Mobile is running into a problem that’s hard to ignore: the American flag printed on the back of its T1 phone doesn’t match the standard design.
A flag on the device. prominent in marketing materials. appears to show 11 stripes instead of the 13 the design is meant to represent for the 13 colonies.. The doubt isn’t just about one detail.. The reporter says the company also changed its logo in a way that seems tied to the stripe count. after a version shown earlier in February displayed the correct 13 stripes.
In February, the phone shown with a giant T1 logo reportedly had a flag with the correct number of stripes.. In the near-final version. the 11-stripe flag appears. and the “Trump Mobile” logo beneath the flag has been moved slightly closer. aligning with the spacing changes of the stripes.. The reporter describes it as an error that only becomes obvious on close inspection.
Even more disorienting is what appears in this week’s glossy promotional video.. The video includes a slow-motion, close-up shot where the flag is shown with nine stripes.. That shot. the reporter argues. can’t be explained away as a “clever” design choice. and it raises an immediate question: why does the stripe count appear to change across different parts of the same promotional effort?
The story also points to other inconsistencies around the product presentation.. The texture of the phone’s golden finish is described as varying between shots. sometimes looking frosted and sometimes fully shiny.. The boot-up screen changes too, as does the packaging, with the reporter counting three different versions of both elements.
Speculation naturally gravitates toward generative AI. and the reporter suggests that possibility might fit the kinds of shifting visuals seen across marketing assets.. But they add a counterpoint: a fleeting glimpse of a scratch on the camera module appears in one portion of the promo. then disappears in later shots.. That detail. they say. makes AI look less likely. because an AI-generated clip would not be expected to introduce an actual scratch that later vanishes.
For all the visual oddities. the bigger concern is whether any of it reflects an actual device that’s ready for customers.. The reporter says they can’t find anyone online making a credible claim that they’ve received a shipping alert. let alone the phone itself.. Their own attempts to track an order have turned up nothing definitive.
They report that they have not received an email telling them the two phones they ordered are ready to ship.. Logging into their Trump Mobile account, they say, doesn’t show obvious signs their order is active.. A box labeled “T1 deposit” lists details of a cell plan they didn’t order and includes an “Expiry Date” reading “To be assigned. ” leaving the reporter unsure what is supposed to expire—or whether it leads anywhere useful at all.
As they have done repeatedly, they reached out to Trump Mobile for comment. This time, the questions are blunt: not just where the phones are, but how many stripes are on the US flag.
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So they can’t even get 13 stripes right? That’s wild.
I saw Trump Mobile trending and thought it was just politics marketing, but the flag thing sounds like straight up photoshop. If it’s changing in videos too then yeah I don’t trust it. Also the logo being moved?? like come on.
Wait so it’s 11 stripes not 13? Aren’t there 13 colonies but like… sometimes flags have different stuff depending on the year? So maybe it’s not an error, maybe they’re doing it differently? But also they said it shows 9 stripes in slow motion which makes no sense unless the camera is messing it up? Idk either way it seems kinda scammy.
This is exactly why I’m skeptical of the whole phone thing. They can’t keep the same look between February promos and this week’s glossy video, and the gold finish texture sounds inconsistent too. Like if they’re already messing up the basic “flag” part, what else is different when it shows up in real life? Probably not even the right model or whatever, but everyone will still preorder anyway.