T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’
T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’
T1手机公关公司表示“不再为特朗普手机提供任何协助”
Trump Mobile will have to talk to the press itself now. 从现在起，特朗普手机（Trump Mobile）将不得不亲自与媒体沟通。
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We don’t have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile’s media relations manager. 特朗普手机到底在哪儿？我们将每周持续关注。虽然我们预订的手机尚未到货，但本周我们从特朗普手机的媒体关系经理那里收到了意想不到的消息。
If you’ve been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you’ll know that Trump Mobile doesn’t exactly keep open lines of communication with the media. That doesn’t look to be changing, with the company no longer working with its long-term media relations firm. 如果你一直关注我关于特朗普手机的报道，你就会知道特朗普手机与媒体之间的沟通渠道并不畅通。这种情况似乎不会改变，因为该公司已不再与其长期合作的媒体关系公司继续合作。
Poplar Group has represented Trump Mobile since at least last June, when the company’s founding partner Chris Walker gave a statement to《USA Today》, insisting at the time that “T1 phones are proudly being made in America.” That, of course, is not true, which even Trump Mobile now admits. Poplar Group 至少从去年六月起就开始代理特朗普手机的公关业务。当时，该公司创始合伙人克里斯·沃克（Chris Walker）在接受《今日美国》采访时坚称：“T1手机是在美国引以为傲地制造出来的。”当然，事实并非如此，这一点连特朗普手机公司现在也已承认。
I’ve spoken to Walker a few times, and he offered to expedite the delivery of The Verge’s two T1 Phone orders, though we’re still waiting. This week, he told me that his team “is not assisting Trump Mobile any further.” He didn’t know if the company had retained a new PR firm in Poplar’s place. 我曾与沃克交谈过几次，他曾主动提出加快《The Verge》预订的两部T1手机的交付速度，尽管我们至今仍在等待。本周，他告诉我，他的团队“不再为特朗普手机提供任何协助”。他并不清楚该公司是否已经聘请了新的公关公司来接替Poplar Group。
Perhaps with the phone now launched, the company doesn’t think it needs to put up with the press any longer. Of course, the extent of that launch remains unclear: A handful of media have the phone, and there are at least a couple of people on Truth Social and X who seem to be genuine buyers, but that’s about it so far. For more on the Trump phone, check out my big wrap-up of its first birthday. 也许随着手机的正式发布，该公司认为自己无需再应付媒体了。当然，此次发布的规模尚不明确：只有少数媒体拿到了手机，在 Truth Social 和 X 上似乎也只有寥寥几位真正的买家，目前情况仅限于此。想了解更多关于特朗普手机的信息，请查看我关于其“一周年”的深度总结报道。