{"id":443929,"date":"2026-01-30T22:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443929\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:49:10","slug":"we-finally-heard-from-trump-mobile-and-they-immediately-ghosted-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443929\/","title":{"rendered":"We finally heard from Trump Mobile\u2026 and they immediately ghosted us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where\u2019s the Trump phone? We\u2019re going to keep talking about it every week.<\/a> We\u2019ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone\u2019s whereabouts. As usual, we\u2019re still waiting for a response. In the meantime, I finally got a reply from a company exec.<\/p>\n

After months \u2014 months \u2014 of emailing various official Trump Mobile accounts and press addresses, last week someone answered back. Don Hendrickson, a member of the company\u2019s executive team, finally replied to one of my emails and offered to talk, but he\u2019s ignored me ever since.<\/p>\n

Last week I reported<\/a> on the unexpected news that Trump Mobile is working on a second Trump phone, a more powerful T1 Ultra. That information came from an old, ignored interview Hendrickson did with Wireless Dealer Magazine.<\/p>\n

Hendrickson\u2019s name isn\u2019t new. He was one of three executives \u2014 alongside Pat O\u2019Brien and Eric Thomas \u2014 that Don Jr. and Eric Trump brought on stage for a small press conference at New York\u2019s Trump Tower in June 2025 to announce the company. The Trumps claimed there were an impressive, if implausible, \u201chundreds of years\u201d of mobile industry experience between the three men.<\/p>\n

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Hendrickson\u2019s share of that experience is the trickiest to pin down. During the launch event, he was described as having worked in the mobile industry since the days of pagers, but his actual resume is hard to find. I can only find one LinkedIn profile<\/a> that might be his \u2014 a mostly blank listing for a \u201cwireless professional\u201d \u2014 and no other public social media profiles or websites.<\/p>\n

As for Hendrickson\u2019s present work at Trump Mobile, Reuters<\/a> has reported that he\u2019s Trump Mobile\u2019s head of mobile operations, while Wireless Dealer Magazine<\/a> identifies him as the company\u2019s president. In the interview, he himself claims to have had the idea for the company, and to have turned to the Trumps to make it happen.<\/p>\n

I did find one lead. A directory site<\/a> lists him as the executive vice president of sales at Liberty Mobile Wireless. This suddenly makes sense: If you remember, Liberty Mobile is the freedom-centric MVNO<\/a> that seems to underpin Trump Mobile \u2014 the Trump network\u2019s online terms of use<\/a> state that it is \u201cpowered by Liberty Mobile Wireless LLC.\u201d<\/p>\n

This proved my in. That same directory website lists a Liberty Mobile email address, and so I took my chances and sent him a message asking if he could confirm the details discussed in his November interview, and perhaps add more information on plans for the T1 Ultra. If you\u2019ve been following my reporting on Trump Mobile so far, you can probably guess that I never expected to hear back (I have, to date, sent the company\u2019s official press line 12 emails over five months and not received a single reply).<\/p>\n

Imagine my surprise when, less than two hours later, I had a response:<\/p>\n

Dominic,<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pleasure to meet you via this email and yes, I would like to talk to you about Trump Mobile and the T1 handset that we are going to be bringing to market. I think it\u2019s about time we let our voice be heard.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Don<\/p>\n

That was a little over a week ago, and those remain the only words that anyone officially involved with Trump Mobile has ever said to me. I\u2019ve sent Don three emails since \u2014 I\u2019m sure breaking most dating advice on how to handle being ghosted \u2014 but been ignored every time. I don\u2019t know how to feel, having gotten so tantalizingly close to a real conversation with a real human being who might have answers to all of my questions, only to have it all evaporate away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s about time we let our voice be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if Hendrickson still wants to talk, if he still thinks that it\u2019s time for Trump Mobile\u2019s voice to be heard. I don\u2019t know if Pat O\u2019Brien or Eric Thomas share his feelings \u2014 I\u2019ve tried to contact both, with no replies yet. I don\u2019t know why Hendrickson suddenly went quiet, if he got spooked or was advised to stop chatting to journalists.<\/p>\n

But hey, at least now I\u2019ve found a Trump Mobile address I can email each week that I know someone is actually checking.<\/p>\n

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