At a glitzy event at Trump Tower on June 16, 2025, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump announced the launch of a new “all-American” cell phone service called Trump Mobile , with a flagship golden phone soon to follow. An estimated 600,000 people paid $100 deposits for the T1 Phone, which is priced at $499 and slated to launch in August 2025.     Yet, nearly nine months later, the phone hasn't been released, there is no release date listed on the Trump Mobile website, and it may not actually be made in the U.S. The Trump Mobile website pushed the phone’s release date back from summer 2025 to November, to December and to mid-March of this year, to now removing a release date altogether.  Trump Mobile also updated its “Preorder Deposit Terms and Conditions” on April 6, 2026, which now makes clear that a preorder deposit “provides only a conditional opportunity if Trump Mobile later elects, in its sole discretion, to offer the Device for sale.” The terms continue, “A deposit is not a…