When the Trump Organization said it would launch a mobile-phone service, it also said it would sell a $499 T1 Phone beginning in August with some specs that beat the current top iPhone. A press release said the gold Android phone would be “proudly designed and built in the United States.

The idea that [manufacturing] could be replicated in the U.S. in any sort of short- to medium-term timescale is fanciful,” one analyst said.