{"id":2605,"date":"2026-03-27T23:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/wait-the-trump-phone-might-actually-exist\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:44:05","slug":"wait-the-trump-phone-might-actually-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wait-the-trump-phone-might-actually-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, the Trump phone might actually exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Speedometer-style dial to measure whether the Trump Phone exists or not, pointing to \u2018no\u2019.\" data-caption=\"The Trumpometer is just beginning to shift. | Image: The Verge \/ Shutterstock\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge \/ Shutterstock\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Vrg_illo_trump_phone_np2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThe Trumpometer is just beginning to shift. | Image: The Verge \/ Shutterstock\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/843498\/trump-phone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Where&rsquo;s the Trump phone? We&rsquo;re going to keep talking about it every week<\/em><\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em> We&rsquo;ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone&rsquo;s whereabouts. This week I think I&rsquo;ve found an FCC listing for the phone, showing it&rsquo;s received certification to launch in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Last week I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/898110\/trump-phone-t1-release-certification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a reminder<\/a> that Trump Mobile&rsquo;s T1 Phone does not exist, and may never exist, despite the fact that the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/875190\/trump-phone-t1-first-look-design-interview-eric-thomas-don-hendrickson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showed me a phone<\/a> in an effort to convince me otherwise. Today instead I bring cause for optimism for the Trump phone believers: it appears to have been certified by the FCC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/oetcf\/eas\/reports\/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&amp;RequestTimeout=500&amp;calledFromFrame=N&amp;application_id=EWaxhy4er0AMYOk0tHi6OQ%3D%3D&amp;fcc_id=2BSZG-SGG06SM8661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FCC listings<\/a> for a smartphone with the trade name \u00ab\u00a0T1\u00a0\u00bb show that it was tested  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/902399\/trump-phone-mobile-t1-fcc-certification-authorization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trumpometer is just beginning to shift. | Image: The Verge \/ Shutterstock Where&rsquo;s the Trump phone? We&rsquo;re going to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}