Nine months later, the Trump phone still doesn’t exist

It’s been more than a month since two Trump Mobile executives showed me what they claimed was the T1 Phone, and in the time since, there’s been… nothing. No news, no announcements, no phone. And the company has gone back to ignoring my emails.

When I spoke to Don Hendrickson and Eric Thomas in early February, I was told that within “the next couple of weeks” the Trump Mobile website would be updated with a full spec sheet and imagery for the updated version of the phone that I was shown over a video call. That was six weeks ago, and the website hasn’t changed a bit.

The pair also told me that by mid-March they expected the device to have cleared its certification with T-Mobile, the last hurdle before it could officially go on sale and start shipping to buyers. We’re getting into late March now, so I emailed Hendrickson and Thomas to ask if that certification has been completed, and received no reply. I emailed T-Mobile too, which declined to comment.

The Trump Mobile executives wouldn’t commit to a March release date when we spoke, so perhaps this isn’t quite as egregious as when the T1 phone missed its August, September, and December 2025 launches. Still, it’s now been more than nine months since the phone was announced, in which time we’ve seen one bad render, two different spec sheets, and a blurry glimpse over Google Meet.

If the Trump phone is real, it’s supposed to arrive soon. I remain unconvinced that it will — but as someone who’s dying to review it, I want to believe.

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