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Trump's War on Late Night Comedy [1]
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Date: 2025-07-23
Trump was way too happy when Stephen Colbert got "fired." It's hard to call it a firing when he's got 10 months to go. A lot can happen between now and then. The Paramount-CBS merger with Skydance could go through and then Skydance decides that it is in their best interests to keep Colbert on.
Colbert's ratings must be shooting through the roof by now with all the support people want to give him. What new advertisers did he get? That's what he needs to survive. Or are advertisers chickening out because they don't want to cross Trump?
Donald Trump was not nice at all.
"I absolutely love that Colbert' got fired."
I don't know what that dangling apostrophe is supposed to represent, other than another typo by Donald. Donald Trump deserves no schadenfreude about this.
"His talent was even less than his ratings."
Again, you just boosted his ratings exponentially.
"I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next."
You've till got Brendan Carr and the FCC going after Disney-ABC for DEI. Trump could be deaf after the bullet nicked his ear, so what he "hears" about Jimmy Kimmel might be meaningless. As far as Greg Gutfeld is concerned, at first I couldn't stand 10 seconds of him, now I skip him entirely. But that could be because I'm not watching Fox News at all.
Then he calls Jimmy Fallon a "Moron."
Okay Donald, two morons standing on a cliff, a little moron and a big moron. Donald is the big moron. He falls off. Why didn't the little moron fall off? Because, he was a little more on.
Four days later, Trump is at it again hitting on the late night hosts.
"The word is, and it's a strong word at that..."
I can think of some really strong words to use at this point. David Letterman had some choice words for CBS. "You can't spell CBS without BS." David also put up a 20-minute video on his YouTube channel about all the times he has criticized CBS. 20 minutes.
"Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone."
But Donald thinks he's got a strong word about Jimmy Kimmel being axed. Sweepstakes. Ruining television and people's lives is a game to Donald Trump.
"These are people with absolutely no Talent, who are paid millions of dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television."
Donald, Colbert has 10 months to go, minimum. Do you have any idea how he will let loose now?
Jimmy Kimmel can take you down with a single ad-lib like at the Oscars last year when he got a notification that Trump had tweeted about him and Kimmel shot back on stage, "Isn't it past your jail time?"
Jimmy had much stronger language on an Instagram post about Colbert's firing when he said, "Fu*k *you and all your Sheldons!" Most likely he was referring to the CBS sitcom "Young Sheldon."
In Colbert's audience on Monday showing solidarity were Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Andy Cooper, Anderson Cooper, Adam Sandler, and Christopher McDonald. While panning the audience to catch them, the camera also caught a cartoon Trump cuddling the Paramount logo, which he dropped when he knew he was on.
On his own show, Jimmy Fallon said, "Everyone is talking about CBS's decision to end The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and many people are now threatening to boycott the network. CBS could lose millions of viewers along with tens of hundreds on Paramount Plus." Taking an appropriate shot at Paramount's streaming service.
Here is Colbert's Monday monologue on YouTube. The line about Donald Trump drawing pubic hair on every executive order is a killer.
Trump ended his post with, "It's really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!"
Donald Trump likes kicking people when they are down and defenseless. He's a heartless bully. Late night comedians will not be going quietly into the night without fighting back. Stephen Colbert has already proven that. He also says he wants to be the only martyr. I'll go with that.
Comedy and satire is protected by the First Amendment. The reasoning for that is well laid out in the amicus brief (23 pages PDF) that The Onion submitted in a Supreme Court case. But that isn't going to stop Trump. The man is out to be a black hole in our lives to take joy out of it.
We can't let the bastard win.
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