Donald Trump’s golden smartphone won’t be arriving anytime soon.
Trump Mobile, announced in June and run by the president’s children Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, has yet again delayed shipping of its flagship device, the T1, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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Speaking to the news publisher, Trump Mobile’s customer service team blamed this year’s U.S. government shutdown for the phone’s delay — without further detail. This follows a previously unaddressed delay in November, in which the Trump Mobile team quietly removed shipping dates from its website as the deadline sailed by and began listing refurbished Samsung and Apple phones.
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In fact, the T1 was originally set to ship in August, was then pushed to October, went AWOL in November, and will now be shipped…sometime in 2026? Maybe?
Currently still available for preorder on the Trump Mobile website, the smartphone retails for $499 and is set to run on its “47 plan” including unlimited talk, text, and data for $47.45 a month (Trump is the 45th and 47th U.S. president). Down payments cost $100, with a message on the website fittingly reading, “Getting in line is easy.”
In June, Trump Mobile was pitched by the Trump Organisation’s trademark licensing arm DTTM Corporation as “a transformational, new cellular service designed to deliver top-tier connectivity, unbeatable value and all-American service for our nation’s hardest-working people” — with emphasis on the American-made element. Following Trump’s chaotic global tariffs odyssey earlier this year, the president’s aim of bringing manufacturing back into the U.S. has seen pressure on Big Tech leaders like Apple to produce their devices in America instead of China — though whether the T1 could actually entirely be made in America is a major question mark.
