Is Trump’s Gold Phone American-Made?

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00:00What you get with this gold phone sounds pretty phenomenal.

00:03It says unlimited talk and text to all America, no contract and no credit checks,

00:12an unlimited voice and text to Mexico and Canada, mobile hotspot, complete device protection.

00:19It's got everything, Rawia.

00:21But is it possible?

00:22It's not the only one.

00:23It's not the only plan that's got everything.

00:25Actually, some American competitors are offering exactly the same plan for $25, not $46.45.

00:34But let's talk about the part where it's all American.

00:38Now, apparently, if you get parts to produce any product from all across the world,

00:43if you assemble them all in one place, then the product will be manufactured in, basically,

00:51that's what the label would say.

00:53It's manufactured in the place where it's assembled.

00:56But there are so many different problems with this regarding this phone.

01:00First of all, as we said, the screens are coming from Korea or China.

01:05The most important part of the phone, which is the chip or the processor,

01:10it is basically impossible with this price, which is about $500, to make it in the U.S.

01:16So they will bring it probably from Taiwan.

01:19We have also another very important part of this phone or phones generally.

01:23You have the camera.

01:24The image sensory usually relies on Japanese companies like Sony.

01:30The battery and memory chip, no American factory actually known to be able to produce these.

01:35So let's say they get all of these parts from different parts of the world, mainly Asia, as we saw,

01:41and then they assemble them in the U.S.

01:43The U.S. doesn't have any assembly lines for phones.

01:47They need to create one or to make assembly lines.

01:50They take up to between three to five years to actually, you know, make this an assembly line.

01:57Even Apple that's been manufacturing phones for decades, more than a decade now, almost two decades,

02:05they don't have an assembly line in the U.S.