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Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. As usual, we’re still waiting for a response. In the meantime, I finally got a reply from a company exec.
After months — months — of emailing various official Trump Mobile accounts and press addresses, last week someone answered back. Don Hendrickson, a member of the company’s executive team, finally replied to one of my emails and offered to talk, but he’s ignored me ever since.
Last week I reported on the unexpected news that Trump Mobile is working on a second Trump phone, a more powerful T1 Ultra. That information came from an old, ignored interview Hendrickson did with Wireless Dealer Magazine.
Hendrickson’s name isn’t new. He was one of three executives — alongside Pat O’Brien and Eric Thomas — that Don Jr. and Eric Trump brought on stage for a small press conference at New York’s Trump Tower in June 2025 to announce the company. The Trumps claimed there were an impressive, if implausible, “hundreds of years” of mobile industry experience between the three men.
From left to right: Eric Trump, Don Hendrickson, Eric Thomas, and Pat O’Brien. Screenshot: Associated Press
Hendrickson’s share of that experience is the trickiest to pin down. During the launch event, he was described as having worked in the mobile industry since the days of pagers, but his actual resume is hard to find. I can only find one LinkedIn profile that might be his — a mostly blank listing for a “wireless professional” — and no other public social media profiles or websites.
As for Hendrickson’s present work at Trump Mobile, Reuters has reported that he’s Trump Mobile’s head of mobile operations, while Wireless Dealer Magazine identifies him as the company’s president. In the interview, he himself claims to have had the idea for the company, and to have turned to the Trumps to make it happen.
I did find one lead. A directory site lists him as the executive vice president of sales at Liberty Mobile Wireless. This suddenly makes sense: If you remember, Liberty Mobile is the freedom-centric MVNO that seems to underpin Trump Mobile — the Trump network’s online terms of use state that it is “powered by Liberty Mobile Wireless LLC.”
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