On June 16, 2025, I pre-ordered an Android smartphone. I’ve done this dozens of times before in my life, but this time was a little different. On that day, I was pre-ordering a phone that I didn’t want and had every reason to believe I would never actually see. The device in question was the T1 Phone, the first phone from a brand new company called Trump Mobile.
Trump Mobile is both a new carrier and phone company started by President Donald Trump’s sons, Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump. The T1 Phone was, at the time, sold as a made-in-America, gold-plated Android phone that looked alarmingly close to an iPhone. On the back was an enormous “T1” logo above an American flag.
I know this is a huge surprise, but I think the Trump phone might be a scam.
However, who knows how real this phone actually is? As far as I know, no one outside of the Trump Mobile team has actually seen one. I certainly don’t have one. In fact, I have no correspondence about the status of my pre-order, no confirmed delivery date — I can’t even log in to my account at TrumpMobile.com to view my order. And it’s been three months.
I’m beginning to think this might be a scam, guys.
What’s happened since I pre-ordered
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When I placed my pre-order for the Trump phone on June 16, I got a receipt for my deposit of $100. You can see the receipt below. I blocked out the provided password out of an abundance of caution, but it doesn’t matter because it doesn’t work anyway:
This is the only email I have received from [email protected]. It is the only email I’ve received from literally any account with the “@trumpmobile.com” address and the only email I’ve received at the unique email address we made specifically for this transaction. Over the past three months, there have been zero updates on my purchase.
In three months, the only thing I have from my $100 pre-order is a receipt for the transaction.
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