You will not be surprised to learn that, according to NBC News, they and indeed all other would-be buyers who put down a $100 deposit to preorder the not-actually-made-in-America $500 Trump Mobile T1 smartphone when it was first announced have yet to receive their reskin of a $169-ish Chinese budget Android model two months after the anticipated street date of September.
NBC writes that during one of their repeated calls to the customer support line in October asking where the goddamned phone was they were told the phone would ship on November 13th. With that date having come and gone, they called again and the support agent said early December.
“The operator cited the government shutdown as a reason for the delay, without further explanation,” says the article and L-O-freaking-L, my kingdom for that person’s internal logic behind that excuse. Was it supposed to be some sort of customs issue or what? Holy shit.