"In June 2025, Donald Trump Jr. proudly announced the founding of a mobile operator called Trump Mobile, including a mobile virtual network operator offering services for $47.45 a month, and a gaudy-looking, gold-colored, $499 smartphone that was supposedly going to be manufactured in the United States. The device, as experts quickly pointed out at the time, looked an awful lot like a mid-tier Android phone from a Chinese smartphone company, drawing plenty of skepticism."
"But despite promising that the phone would be released in 2025, the company was seemingly caught off guard by the dawn of a new year, with the Financial Times reporting on December 31 that Trump Mobile was delaying the launch of the handheld, dubbed T1, blaming the government shutdown. (How exactly the shutdown impacted the private business remains unclear.)"
"As the Associated Press points out, after announcing that the T1 would be made entirely in the US, the company's website now claims the device will have an "American-proud" design - a meaningless tagline that makes it sound a lot like the device, if it ever gets made, will be built somewhere else."
Donald Trump Jr. launched Trump Mobile in June 2025 with a $47.45 monthly mobile virtual network offering and a $499 gold-colored smartphone claimed to be made in the United States. Experts noted the device resembled a mid-tier Chinese Android phone, prompting skepticism. The company delayed the promised 2025 release of the T1 handset, blaming a government shutdown while providing little public evidence of production progress. The company removed the explicit "made entirely in the US" claim and replaced it with an "American-proud" design tagline. High domestic manufacturing costs and tariffs make a competitively priced U.S.-built smartphone challenging.
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