Trump celebrates Colbert cancellation on Reality Social: ‘Completely love that’

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Rely one distinguished individual amongst these joyful that Stephen Colbert ’s late-night present was canceled.

"I completely love that Colbert obtained fired," President Donald Trump posted Friday on Truth Social .

"His expertise was even lower than his scores. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is subsequent. Has even much less expertise than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is healthier than all of them mixed, together with the Moron on NBC who ruined the as soon as nice Tonight Present," Trump went on.

Colbert, considered one of Trump’s fiercest critics, took over the CBS present from David Letterman in 2015, and have become a significant platform for Democratic politicians. Final month, Colbert welcomed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani earlier than the socialist hopeful clinched the Democratic nomination. On Thursday, the identical day he introduced his cancellation efficient subsequent Might, his first visitor was Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

"The Late Present with Stephen Colbert" throughout Wednesday's June 25, 2025, present. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS by way of Getty Photographs)

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CBS stated in a press release that the long-running late-night present will finish in Might 2026, however it was "purely a monetary determination towards a difficult backdrop in late night time," including, "It isn't associated in any strategy to the present's efficiency, content material or different issues taking place at Paramount."

There had been hypothesis about the way forward for the Paramount-owned late-night packages, which additionally contains "The Every day Present" on Comedy Central, as its deliberate company merger with Skydance Media is anticipated to happen later this 12 months.

President Donald Trump on Friday celebrated that Stephen Colbert’s late-night present was canceled. (Photograph by Scott Kowalchyk/CBS by way of Getty Photographs )

Colbert was outspoken against the settlement , calling it a "massive fats bribe" to the Trump administration. He joked about being pressured by studio heads earlier this week.

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"Among the TV typers on the market are running a blog that after Skydance will get CBS, the brand new house owners’ need to please Trump will ‘put stress on late-night host and frequent Trump critic Stephen Colbert,’" Colbert joked. "OK, however how are they going to place stress on Stephen Colbert… if they will’t discover him?"

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In the meantime, Fox Information Channel's " Gutfeld !" has surged to turn into late-night's highest-rated program. Within the second quarter of 2025, the present, hosted by Fox star Greg Gutfeld, notched 3 million viewers and 365,000 within the 25-54 age demographic on the 10 p.m. ET hour.

Along with routing cable information competitors, "Gutfeld!" outpaced all broadcast and late-night tv, together with "The Late Present" and different such established packages as Comedy Central's "The Every day Present," ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Stay!" and NBC’s "The Tonight Present starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Late Night time with Seth Meyers."

Fox Information' Brian Flood and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.

Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox Information Digital.

Joshua focuses on politics, schooling coverage starting from the native to the federal degree, and the parental rebellion in schooling.

Becoming a member of Fox Information Digital in 2019, he beforehand graduated from Syracuse College with a level in Political Science and is an alum of the Nationwide Journalism Heart and the Heritage Basis's Younger Leaders Program.