Can it be made in the United States?

The family business of President Donald Trump takes pre -orders for a gold color smartphone, the T1.

Trump Mobile, who was launched on Tuesday, says the device will be available in September, costs much less than Apple and Samsung smartphones – and will be made in the United States, aligning with the president’s “America First” ethics.

Industry experts And technological journalists Instantly throw doubt about these claims. And if the purism of the manufacturer of smartphones based in Carlsbad, California, is an example, it would take much more than two months in Trump Mobile to build an American manufacturing smartphone from zero. It would also probably be more expensive than the announced price of T1 of $ 499.

At $ 2,000, Purism’s Liberty phone is more expensive than an iPhone 16 Pro. He has half the memory of the iPhone with about double the thickness. You cannot download many applications on it either. According to Todd Weaver, who founded Purism in 2014, it is the only smartphone made in the United States on the market.

But with “killing switches” to deactivate your Wi-Fi, camera and microphone, the Liberty phone is marketed as a secure option because it also transports its own operating system designed by Purism.

It took a long time and efforts to get to this point, Weaver told NBC News. Going from “I would like to make a phone, and I would like to get there in the United States” to really realize that it has taken six years, he said.

The montage chain of purism consists of only four people to kiss telephones in hand – a cry far from the shoulder line on shoulder and automated machines often associated with mass production facilities in China.

The “Made in USA Electronics” sticker that purism takes over the product is a declaration of confidence – since the Federal Trade Commission in regulations allegations.

However, even the integrated phone phone needs foreign help. Ninety percent of telephone documents come from the United States, Canada or Europe. Among the components made elsewhere: a Chinese chassis, camera modules from China or South Korea and a Bluetooth module from India. Purism publication this information online.

For materials as a specific crystal necessary for the operation of the motherboard, Purism says that there are no options for the American supply, which means that there is no choice but to buy in China.

“There is simply not yet a business that provides this crystal alone,” said Weaver.

The Trump organization did not answer NBC News questions about how Trump Mobile’s T1 phone is made.

Another problem looming on the market: constantly evolving trade policies of Trump. The president recently threatened a 25% rate on all imports of smartphones, targeting manufacturers like Apple and Samsung who make their phones abroad.

“Once again, when they build their factory here, there is no price, so they will build plants here,” said the president last month.

The percentage of materials for the phone of purism from abroad is low enough for the Trump administration prices would not affect its $ 2,000. But prices would affect a purerism of telephone in China, called free 5. It is currently at a price of $ 800, but the new import rights would bring it closer to the level of $ 2,000 of the Liberty Phone.

Although prices are a “good incentive” for manufacturing in the United States, said Weaver, the administration approach in all alliance makes it difficult.

“It’s terrible,” said Weaver. “If you have no idea and you cannot predict (policy), it is very difficult for any business, for any business owner. T-shirts, high-tech textiles, it is very difficult to make a long-term commercial decision when you are in a whip saw.”