The updated terms, posted April 6, now state that a deposit \u201cdoes not guarantee that a device will be produced or made available for purchase\u201d, Metro reported.<\/p>\n
The phones were advertised at US$499 ($840) in June last year. Photo \/ Trump Mobile<\/p>\n
The new terms also say estimated ship dates are \u201cnon-binding estimates only\u201d, adding that deposits are non-transferable and carry no independent cash value.<\/p>\n
NBC News, which placed a deposit in August 2025 to track the story, called Trump Mobile\u2019s support line five times over three months and received a series of shifting delivery promises, including one that blamed delays on the federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n
Some buyers have started demanding answers publicly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, Trump supporter here,\u201d a man said in a TikTok video. \u201cThis one goes out to Don Jr. and Eric \u2026 where the f**k\u2019s my phone? I ordered three, no, four gold Trump phones in the summer.”<\/p>\n
Another user asked where the money was.<\/p>\n
An X user posted, \u201c600,000 people got the Trump phone. Scratch that. 600,000 people ordered the Trump phone, put $100 deposit down on it, and never got it… So where\u2019s the $60 million, Donnie?\u201d<\/p>\n
Journalist Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media, said his deposit experience was the worst he has had \u201dbuying a consumer electronic product\u201d. Cox said Trump Mobile charged his card the wrong amount and never collected his shipping address.<\/p>\n
When the phones were first announced, Donald Trump jnr told podcaster Benny Johnson the phones would be \u201cbuilt in the United States of America\u201d, reported the New Republic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to bring manufacturing back here,\u201d Trump jnr said.<\/p>\n
Now the made-in-America has been scrubbed from the website, instead saying the phones will be designed with \u201cAmerican values in mind\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The updated terms, posted April 6, now state that a deposit \u201cdoes not guarantee that a device will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84886,806,113013,138,3237,12974,49063,8278,104345,22220,2219,25901,78,218175,5268,342,111,139,69,16792,8244,218176,6100,46587,39545,8229,2179,57006,27904],"class_list":["post-425442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-59m","tag-as","tag-backers","tag-business","tag-buyers","tag-change","tag-companys","tag-conditions","tag-deposits","tag-going","tag-gone","tag-hasnt","tag-in","tag-longdelayed","tag-lose","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-phone","tag-recent","tag-shipped","tag-still","tag-t1","tag-terms","tag-they","tag-trump","tag-wondering","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}