Where is the Trump phone? Golden iPhone rival misses another release date – as experts suggest it may never arrive

• The Trump Mobile T1 Phone has missed another promised release date
• Previous messaging had implied it would launch by the end of 2025
• There’s been no update on when the device might now arrive

US President Donald Trump has made a big deal of selling a gold-colored Trump-branded “T1 Phone” to his loyal supporters, but so far no one has anything to show for it, despite $100 pre-orders being taken for the mysterious device. Things haven’t been looking up recently, either, as the T1 Phone has just missed another launch deadline.

Back when it was announced in June 2025, it was promised that the device would ship in August or September that year. Those dates came and went without any phones being sent out to purchasers, and the release date was then changed to “later this year” on the product’s website.

That “later ...