The telephone that never existed: What happened to the “Made-in-the-USA” Trump mobile phone?
Months later, we’re still waiting on the release of Donald Trump’s exciting product.
Let’s get things straight right from the off: Trump couldn’t ever rebrand the T1 name, which belongs to the mighty Thunderbirds. Trump-phone is too Batman, and Trump cell... I’ll leave that there.
Three months on, why haven’t we all thrown away our iPhones and Samsung flips and bought the game-changing device invented, designed, and moulded by our lord and saviour?
Come on Donald, where is it?
Anyone still waiting on their Trump T1 phone?
— Robert Wood (@bertowud) November 24, 2025
Trump Phone Is Nowhere to Be Seen 3 Months After Release Date
The T1 was unveiled in June 2025 by the sons of Donald Trump, intended to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Trump’s first presidential run. It was promoted as a “Made in the USA” handset: gold, flag-branded, and part of a new wireless ecosystem under Trump Mobile. Pre-orders required a $100 deposit toward a total price of $499.
Initial ship dates were, well, optimistic: first August, then September. However, by November, the company had pushed shipping to early December, blaming the government shutdown they caused and prolonged. Neither date resulted in shipments. The official site has now erased any concrete release timeline.
What’s more, the “Made in the USA” promise has quietly slipped from Trump Mobile’s marketing materials. It now speaks instead of an “American-proud design … brought to life right here in the USA,” a subtle but fundamental change, and arguably one that goes against everything MAGA stands for.
Tech analysts find the original claim dubious to begin with. U.S.-manufactured smartphones remain rare and expensive. That’ll be the tariffs.
Journalists at NBC did the digging and even bought devices to test out. However, they have not arrived, and when they pushed those on the other end of the phone line as to where they were, nobody could offer an answer, instead giving only vague assurances and shifting dates.
This is not the first round of problems for the phone. Official photo shows it to look extremely similar to a Samsung Galaxy, and popular tech brand Spigen publicly commented on a photo that appears to show one of their cases in a doctored image.
lawsuit incoming... https://t.co/HNO29Q5sjC pic.twitter.com/zC2J2QHQ7g
— Spigen (@spigen) August 21, 2025
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Oh well, I guess I’ll have to go back to spraying my $400 golden Trump sneakers with Trump cologne. What time is it? Let me just check my $100,000 Trump watch...
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