The Trump phone just got a $250 price hike
Even the Trumps can’t escape RAMageddon.
by Dominic Preston
Sep 10, 2026, 9:13 AM UTC
Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor.
Bad news if you didn’t lock in a Trump phone at launch: It now costs $749, a $250 increase on its price at launch. The T1 Phone itself hasn’t changed.
Trump Mobile didn’t announce the price increase, instead quietly changing its website overnight. This wasn’t a total surprise though, especially given the phone ships with an unexpectedly generous 512GB of storage and 12GB of RAM. When I spoke to two Trump Mobile executives earlier this year they called the $499 launch pricing “introductory,” and a few months later the website itself was changed to reflect that, calling it a “promotional price.” That wording is now gone.
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