{"id":363319,"date":"2025-08-21T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363319\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:55:14","slug":"the-trump-phone-changes-its-appearance-ahead-of-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363319\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump phone changes its appearance ahead of launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/_trump_mobile_t1_phone-13958.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Mobile T1 Phone<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/trump_mobile_carrier_launches_in_the_us_with_goldcolored_trump_t1_phone-news-68277.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced alongside the Trump Mobile carrier<\/a> in the US in June, when it was promised to arrive in August or September. In the meantime, the text has changed and now only says &#8220;later this year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump T1 has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/the_trump_mobile_t1_phone_is_not_made_in_america_specs_quietly_changed-news-68409.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">undergone some changes from its initial announcement<\/a> &#8211; this bragged about it being &#8220;proudly designed and built in the US&#8221;, but that has since turned into &#8220;proudly American&#8221; which means something completely different. This trend continues with the post from X that you can see below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 The wait is almost over!<\/p>\n<p>The T1 Phone is powerful, sleek, and built with the features you need most.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 Preorder today &amp; be among the first to experience it.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TjGv5Gz4AA\">https:\/\/t.co\/TjGv5Gz4AA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DM8eGim1NS\">pic.twitter.com\/DM8eGim1NS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trump Mobile (@TrumpMobile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpMobile\/status\/1957955640565068159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The vague language (&#8220;the wait is almost over&#8221;) isn&#8217;t surprising anymore, but take a look at the phone itself &#8211; this looks nothing like the first images released in June (which are still up <a href=\"https:\/\/phone.trumpmobile.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the Trump Mobile website<\/a>, by the way).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"560\" alt=\"This is what it used to look like (and still does on the official website)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755820514_560_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<strong>This is what it used to look like (and still does on the official website)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So what happened here? Has the Trump T1 magically undergone a metamorphosis into what looks eerily like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_s25_ultra-13322.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra<\/a> with a gold-colored case on it? We obviously can&#8217;t say, but this keeps smelling fishier and fishier.<\/p>\n<p>Either the people running the Trump Mobile X account have never visited the Trump Mobile website, which shows different images of the phone, or the design has changed since the announcement, or this is all just a scam. You be the judge. By the way, the dancing around where it&#8217;s actually made continues &#8211; &#8220;with American hands behind every device&#8221; the image in the post above says, but that doesn&#8217;t actually mean anything.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump Mobile T1 Phone was announced alongside the Trump Mobile carrier in the US in June, when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115069460479113820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}