So Much For “Made in America”: Trump’s Gold Phone Exposed As A Chinese Knockoff, His $60M Birthday Flopped, and Georgia Democrats Outvoted The GOP

Plus, Wisconsin judge sanctions far-right lawyers for lying

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TRUMP’S BIRTHDAY: $60M, 16% APPROVED

Trump turned 80 this weekend and threw himself a $60 million UFC cage match on the White House South Lawn. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found only 16% of Americans thought it was appropriate.

The fights went on under storm threats and brutal humidity, and with no tickets to sell on the White House lawn, the UFC walked in expecting to eat a $30 million loss.

Even Dana White, who built the whole thing and counts Trump as a friend, was done by the end. “I can’t afford it,” he said, adding that he’d never do it at the White House again. The giant cage came down soon after. One night, and his monument to himself was gone.

TRUMP’S PHONE: GOLD PAINT, WRONG FLAG

Trump Mobile finally shipped the T1—a $499 gold-colored phone they’d been promising for nearly a year. They called it an “American-made” answer to Apple and Samsung. The repair experts at iFixIt took one apart to see if that was true.

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t. Inside was a two-year-old phone built in China—the same one already sitting on store shelves, just painted gold.

The marketing claims were fake too. The company bragged about 600,000 orders. The real number, exposed in a data breach, was around 30,000.

Then there’s the American flag—the one stamped on the back with 11 stripes instead of 13. Just like Trump, everything about this phone is phony.

GEORGIA DEMOCRATS JUST OUTVOTED THE GOP

For the first time since 2006, Democratic turnout beat Republican turnout in a Georgia primary—in a state Trump carried, in the heart of the South.

And it wasn’t close. Compared to the last midterm primary, Democratic turnout surged 53% while GOP ballots dropped 13%. That’s not a poll or a prediction. That’s people voting—the only number that matters.

Jon Ossoff has to win again to hold his Senate seat. The race could decide which party controls the chamber—and right now, Democrats are the ones turning out. November is coming.

JUDGE SANCTIONS FAR-RIGHT LAWYERS

US District Judge William Conley

A far-right group went to court to stop Wisconsin from sharing voter data with ERIC. It’s the nationwide system that keeps voter rolls accurate—flagging duplicate registrations and people who’ve moved or died. Their argument: Wisconsin quit that system back in 2016, so sharing data with it was illegal.

There was just one problem. Wisconsin didn’t quit ERIC in 2016—it joined then. The entire lawsuit was built on a claim that was flatly false.

US District Judge William Conley didn’t just throw the case out. He sanctioned the lawyers who filed it—writing that either they never checked the facts or they just didn’t care.

These groups file junk lawsuits like this constantly, betting that no one’s paying attention. This time, they weren’t so lucky.

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