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iFixit's Trump T1 Teardown Is the Real Made-in-USA Audit A gold-painted smartphone that boots up with a competitor's motherboard inside is not a hardware failure—it's a marketing one. iFixit's teardown of the Trump T1 didn't just confirm what skeptics suspected; it documented, with CT scans and a successful motherboard swap test, that Trump Mobile sold 590,000 pre-orders on a promise the supply chain never delivered. The only components original to the T1 are cosmetic: a paint job, a logo, and a battery with worse charging specs than its donor device. Everything else—processor, display, camera array, antenna design—came from an HTC…