--- description: Callers are greeted with a campaign message. title: Donald Trump Wants You to Call His Cell Phone image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Donald Trump Just Gave Out His Own Cell Phone Number  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 4, 2015 5:33 PM CUT  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 4, 2015 5:33 PM CUT After [Gawker released Donald Trump’s cell phone number](http://gawker.com/call-donald-trumps-cell-phone-and-ask-him-about-his-imp-1720472577 "undefined") on Monday, the Republican presidential contender has countered by making his number public . > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/628590822913650688) Dialing the phone at press time resulted in a busy signal, but others have recorded the number’s message which encourages listeners to follow Trump on twitter and visit his campaign website. > [](https://twitter.com/frankthorpNBC/status/628592718449639424) The candidate’s tweet is the latest in a saga of phone number disclosures involving Trump. In July, Trump released fellow Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham’s phone number. “I don’t know, give it a shot,” Trump told supporters during a campaign speech that was released on video. Graham later [produced a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXSFRMJhlgY "undefined") that showed the senator destroying his cell phone in multiple different ways. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3983939/donald-trump-gawker-cell-phone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3983939/donald-trump-gawker-cell-phone/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Just Gave Out His Own Cell Phone Number","datePublished":"2015-08-04T17:33:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:53:07.607Z","description":"You can't out-troll the Donald","url":"https://time.com/3983939/donald-trump-gawker-cell-phone/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Republican Party","Donald Trump","2016 Campaign","Lindsey Graham","cell phone"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3983939/donald-trump-gawker-cell-phone/","name":"Donald Trump Just Gave Out His Own Cell Phone Number"}}]}] ```