Donald Trump’s golden smartphone is not expected to arrive any time soon. Trump Mobile, introduced in June and operated by the president’s children Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, has once again postponed the delivery of its flagship device, the T1, as reported by the Financial Times.

In a conversation with the news outlet, Trump Mobile’s customer service staff attributed the phone’s delay to this year’s U.S. government shutdown — without providing additional details. This comes after a prior unacknowledged delay in November, during which the Trump Mobile team discreetly removed shipping timelines from its site as the deadline passed and started listing refurbished Samsung and Apple devices.

Originally set to ship in August, the T1 was then rescheduled to October, disappeared in November, and will now be dispatched…sometime in 2026? Perhaps?

Still up for preorder on the Trump Mobile website, the smartphone is priced at $499 and is expected to operate on its “47 plan,” which offers unlimited talk, text, and data for $47.45 per month (Trump is the 45th and 47th U.S. president). The down payment is $100, with a message on the website aptly stating, “Getting in line is easy.”

In June, Trump Mobile was promoted by the Trump Organisation’s trademark licensing division DTTM Corporation as “a transformative, new cellular service designed to provide top-level connectivity, unmatched value, and all-American service for our nation’s hardest-working people” — emphasizing the American-made aspect. Following Trump’s tumultuous global tariffs journey earlier this year, the president’s goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. has pressured major tech companies like Apple to manufacture their devices domestically instead of in China — though whether the T1 could truly be produced entirely in America remains a significant question.