There was an awkward cell phone interruption during President Trump's Oval Office event Friday - and it turns out it was the president's own device blasting out the annoying ring tone.
'It's only a congressman,' quipped Trump, seizing the moment to make a joke at a gathering before the media where he touted the 'hot' nuclear industry as attendees said it would power the growth of AI.
'Oh, it's a phone call - do you mind?' Trump asked the press before answering his phone during an event being carried live and streaming online. When reporters asked how it was, Trump demurred, 'I'd let you know, actually ...'
That preceded yet another interruption just as Trump was getting asked about his administration barring Harvard from taking foreign students.
'It's a different congressman. They're all congratulating us,' said Trump as he silenced the phone and placing it back on his desk.
The interruptions came a day after the House voted out his 'big beautiful' bill by a single vote.
Although the White House said it wasn't releasing who called Trump, the president's claim that it was lawmakers dialing his cell was certainly plausible.
A pair of Atlantic reporters revealed that Trump answered a cold call from an unknown number when they rang his cell in the midst of the Signal scandal.
President Donald Trump's iPhone went off during an Oval Office event on nuclear energy - twice
In the Oval Office Friday, a reporter couldn't help asking if Trump was using an iPhone, on a day he threatened to slap a 25 percent tariff on the company if it didn't scrap its business plan and moving manufacturing to the U.S.
'Yes, lucky it is,' Trump responded.
The humor of the moment was hard to miss on a day that began with Trump attacking Apple in an online post that sent the company's stock price sinking and then threatening to slap tariffs on the European Union.
Although the White House wouldn't say who rang, the exchange did reveal Trump's ring tone
The president wrote on Truth Social: 'I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhones that will be sold in the U.S. - where labor costs are much higher than China , India and developing countries - will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else.'
But in the same event where Trump's phone was ringing off the hook, he also revealed that other cell phone manufacturers would get hit.
Even as the White House stayed mum - just as it did on the guest list for a Trump meme coin event Thursday night as Trump's Virginia golf club - the sound itself betrayed something about Trump.
His phone is set to 'reflection,' the standard ring tone that comes with an Apple device.