Trump Cell shares T1 mannequin, however one thing would not look proper

President Donald Trump’s smartphone firm, Trump Cell, is participating in some obvious tomfoolery on X.

Trump Cell initially introduced plans to launch a “made in America” smartphone referred to as the T1, earlier than quietly eradicating that language from its web site in June.

On Thursday, Aug. 19, Trump Cell shared a brand new promo for the cellphone on X, telling clients to “Preorder at this time & be among the many first to expertise it.” The submit states the cellphone has a “gold end” and “huge energy,” and is accompanied by a photograph of the cellphone. Nicely, a cellphone, anyway.

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Android customers shortly realized the T1 was truly only a photoshopped picture of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely. X customers additionally identified that the so-called gold end is clearly a cellphone case made by the accent model Spigen.

A Neighborhood Notes fact-check of the submit states: “The cellphone within the picture is a photoshopped Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely in a case by the accent firm Spigen, it’s not the ‘T1 Telephone’. The Spigen emblem continues to be seen beneath the digitally added American Flag.”

Surprisingly, the Trump Cell web site truly does have a photograph of the alleged cellphone that appears fully completely different from this new picture. Within the picture on the web site, the T1 has three diagonally organized rear digital camera modules like a Professional-level iPhone, fairly than the vertically organized stack you’d discover on a Samsung system.

The T1 was introduced earlier this yr as a $499 Android system with a 6.25-inch AMOLED show, 256GB of storage, and a 5,000mAh battery. Regardless of guarantees that the T1 can be made in America (President Trump has famously pushed Apple to maneuver iPhone manufacturing to the U.S.), the nation truly lacks the manufacturing infrastructure to create a few of the cellphone’s key parts. Web sleuths additionally found that the smartphone’s promised specs are practically similar to an inexpensive smartphone made in China.

At this level, it isn’t clear what the promised T1 smartphone will seem like, or to what extent it will likely be constructed or assembled in the US. So, until you had your coronary heart set on a finances cellphone with gold plating and Trump branding, you may need to look elsewhere for a finances Android handset.