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What do Alabama, California, and Florida have in common?

They’re where a spokesperson says the new Trump Mobile T1 Phone will be manufactured, according to The Wall Street Journal:

“Manufacturing for the new phone will be in Alabama, California and Florida.”

We still think that pledge to make a $499 phone in the US in a couple of months sounds impossible, and note the “will be” up above: Eric Trump has admitted that “eventually” the phones can be built in the USA, which raises some obvious questions about what’s happening right now.

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