Carter Delecto

[Carter Delecto @NVTinSoCal]

@ReyStLouis44 @colincowherd Wtf?

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"The administration doesn’t have a magic way of only targeting people who are here illegally. Time and again, American citizens and legal residents have been swept up in their dragnet. This brutishness is simply a form of mass racial profiling."
https://t.co/EMPawKw2CG

[Carter Delecto @NVTinSoCal]

@stefemalnickmd @EylonALevy Misused the word innocent.

Also, you casually dismissed genocide.

[Carter Delecto @NVTinSoCal]

@marcthiessen And those same taco bell burritos were only $0.29 during your college days. 1 hr NY min wage got you 11 or 12 Taco Bell burritos when you were in college, 1 hr current NY min wage only gets you 4 ... what did you have to whine about?

[Carter Delecto @NVTinSoCal]

Apparently we are going to become the United States of Izrael... expect us to launch attacks on Egypt, Lebanon, and Turkey.
America is on life support and this administration is doing everything it can to hold a pillow over her face.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"They told me we were gonna get socialism in New York, but instead we're getting permitting reform — and the real socialism is Donald Trump taking over a bunch of companies in America."

@SarahLongwell25 joins @jonlovett to talk about Zohran Mamdani's embrace of licensing reform:

[Carter Delecto @NVTinSoCal]

@willchamberlain So war criminals should not be tried? Stfu

[Carter Delecto @NVTinSoCal]

@Leesamkap @Timodc @shannonrwatts You support pedophilia and genocide. EAD

[jaycee @jaycee72642246]

@Acyn

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

.@SarahAMatthews1 reacts to Trump's plan to profit off the UFC fight at the White House: "Trump's probably set to make a killing. Meanwhile, most Americans are concerned about affording basic necessities like gas or groceries right now. But no, not our grifter in chief."

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

🚨Price increases — Coming this summer to a grocery store aisle, gas station, and airfare ticket near you!

We’re running this video ad as part of Home of the Brave’s new Sticker Shock Summer campaign to show the public the real price tag of the Trump administration’s agenda.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

How does a decimated military shoot down a highly sophisticated American aircraft?

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

"I never thought I would need to submit an affidavit to the Supreme Court, or write this essay in order to be able to run my small business unencumbered in the United States of America, but here we are."

NEW: https://t.co/YoajUdT3Kb
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[Carter Delecto @NVTinSoCal]

@MikeLowwry @BreakingBrown @JasonWalker_ @samswey "Ok"

[Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog]

Instead of investigating Russian influence operations inside the US, Kash Patel’s FBI is questioning CIA employees about the authors of the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election in favor of Trump, with about a dozen officials already interviewed.

[Carter Delecto @NVTinSoCal]

@laurencebbrown1 @RabbiPoupko @HarmeetKDhillon @LoganLevkoff @EllieCohanim @LeoTerrellDOJ @TheLeoTerrell @SethAMandel @_j0sh_a_ @NateFriedman97 @POTUS @SecRubio @MOSSADil @TheMossadIL @SenateGOP @HouseGOP You're dumb

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

A competitor launched an actual working phone last month. Screen turns on. Camera works. Ships in five days. I flew to their headquarters and sat in on their all-hands disguised as a consultant. They have 4,000 engineers. They source 1,247 components from 38 countries. They have a warranty department. A returns desk. A woman whose entire job is testing whether the screen cracks when you drop it from four feet onto concrete. She drops phones all day. Eight hours. They pay her $87,000 a year to break things they spent $340 million designing. I watched her drop a phone six times and write the results in a spreadsheet and I almost cried. They are building a prison for themselves one invoice at a time and they think it is a company.

Our Q1 cost of goods sold was $0.00. I have that number tattooed on the inside of my wrist. Not literally. But I did get a custom watch face that displays it. It updates in real time. It has never changed.

You cannot have a supply chain disruption if you do not have a supply chain. You cannot have a product recall if you do not have a product. You cannot get sued for a defective device if the device does not exist in three-dimensional space. Our legal exposure is theoretical. Our expenses are the website, the email server, and my salary. I am the company's largest operating cost. I find that arousing.

Their CEO called us "not a real company" on a podcast. Deposits went up 3% that week. He meant it as an insult. Our depositors heard it as confirmation that we are disrupting the industry. A man in Phoenix deposited twice. Once for himself and once for his mother. She is deceased. He wanted her to have one in heaven. I approved the order personally. We do not ship to heaven. We do not ship anywhere. He will not notice the difference.

Last week I presented at a fintech conference. My slide deck was one slide. It said DEPOSITS. I spoke for forty minutes. I did not mention a phone. Not once. Nobody asked. I got a standing ovation from 600 people who build actual products and they were applauding because they wished they didn't have to. After the talk a founder grabbed my arm in the hallway and whispered "how do I do what you do" and his eyes were wet. I gave him my card. The card says HEAD OF PRODUCT. There is no product. He did not notice. Nobody ever notices.

I sent their CEO a fruit basket. The card said "Thank you for the competitive analysis." It was the first physical object we have ever shipped. Our fulfillment team had to Google how.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

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.

[Carter Delecto @NVTinSoCal]

@James_J_Marlow @_iamblakeley @tparsi @_iamblakeley criticizes your justification to rape someone, and you conflate it to her "advocating rape against Jews"
...ok

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

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.