Stephen Colbert Ridicules MAGA Supporters for Trump-Branded Phone Pre-Orders That May Never Arrive

Stephen Colbert sharply criticized MAGA supporters who placed deposits on the T1 Phone, a gold-plated mobile device branded with former President Donald Trump’s name, after updated terms suggested it may never ship.

The late-night host addressed the issue during his Tuesday monologue on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, urging customers to scrutinize the fine print of the device’s pre-order agreement.

Colbert’s Jabs at the Trump-Branded Phone

Colbert opened with a sarcastic remark:

“I guess not all the news out there is bad. Some of it is bad and funny because remember last summer, when Trump rolled out a new phone service, called Trump Mobile, featuring this $499 gold Trump-branded phone handsomely styled to look like a skin tag that fell off C3PO.”

He revisited an earlier joke about the phone’s questionable design, recalling his initial reaction:

“The T1 Phone, which for some reason is in quotes on the website, possibly so they can have plausible deniability when your T1 Phone turns out to be a foil-wrapped hash brown.”

“The joke wasn’t fair,” Colbert continued. “Customers aren’t getting hash browns—because they’re not getting anything!”

Fine Print Reveals Possible Non-Delivery

Colbert highlighted an update to Trump Mobile’s terms, which now state there is no guarantee the phone will be commercially released or receive regulatory approvals.

“That is quite the broad caveat,” Colbert quipped. “I, Mark, take you, Wendy, to be my wife. Vows do not guarantee that I will love, honor, and cherish you with any specific time frame—or that I don’t have a secret family in Tucson.”

He also mocked the Trump Organization’s handling of the pre-orders, saying supporters were scammed by “his babies”—a reference to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who announced the phone in June 2025.

MAGA Supporters Left Empty-Handed

Colbert noted that around 600,000 people placed $100 deposits for the phone when it was first announced. He played a clip of an irate Trump supporter reacting to the news of possible delays or cancellation.

“These people didn’t even get scammed by the top Trump,” Colbert said. “How humiliating to get bamboozled by his babies. It’s like saying, ‘Yeah, I got shaken down by Capone. Not Al, his son, Kyle Capone. He does a podcast.’”

Watch Colbert’s full monologue here.

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS.