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Another day, another bone-chilling statement about the future of media from President Free Speech. In his latest Truth Social rant<\/a>, Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America, denied responsibility for the cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, despite the firing coinciding with the FCC\u2019s approval of an $8 billion merger between Skydance and CBS\u2019s parent company, Paramount Global. President Trump challenged the network\u2019s narrative that the decision was \u201cpurely financial<\/a>,\u201d adding that it was also due to a \u201cpure lack of TALENT.\u201d He goes on to predict that \u201can even less talented Jimmy Kimmel, and then, a weak, and very insecure, Jimmy Fallon\u201d would be next. Cancel culture is so back.<\/p>\n \u201cThe real question is, who will go first?\u201d he continued. \u201cShow Biz and Television is a very simple business. If you get Ratings, you can say or do anything. If you don\u2019t, you will always become a victim. Colbert became a victim to himself, the other two will follow.\u201d<\/p>\n Anyway, Kimmel responded to Trump\u2019s Truth with an Instagram post plugging the new episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. \u201cI know you\u2019re busy Sharpie-ing the Epstein files<\/a>,\u201d he wrote<\/a>, \u201cbut this seems like a weird way to tell people to watch Matt Damon and Ken Jennings on an all-new Who Wants to Be a Millionaire tomorrow night at 8|7c on @ABC.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not great for society that the leader of the free world delights in the firing of late-night comedians. We can quibble over what \u201cRatings\u201d mean in today\u2019s television landscape (for the record, Colbert\u2019s ratings were the highest on late-night TV). But considering the merger went through because Skydance agreed to hire an ombudsman to oversee CBS\u2019s content<\/a>\u2014to say nothing of the $16 million Paramount paid Trump to settle a frivolous lawsuit\u2014politics likely had something to do with the cancellation.<\/p>\n St. Vincent, James Taylor, and Joe Walsh mark first-ever The Late Show With Stephen Colbert musical residencies<\/a>Seth Green remembers all the Buffy plots on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\u2019s \u201cPlot Roulette\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Though he is correct when he said, \u201cIf you get Ratings, you can say or do anything.\u201d For example, on Gutfeld!, which airs earlier in the night and gets higher ratings than the late-night shows<\/a>, the titular Gutfeld proclaimed that he would be taking the pejorative \u201cNazi\u201d back.<\/a> Here\u2019s a full taste of what\u2019s going on on Fox News:<\/p>\n \u201cThis is why the criticism doesn\u2019t matter to us when you call us Nazis. \u2018Nazi this and Nazi that.\u2019 You know, I\u2019m beginning to think they don\u2019t like us,\u201d Gutfeld said. \u201cYou know what? I\u2019ve said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks, the way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it. So, from now on, it\u2019s, \u2018What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what\u2019s hanging, my Nazi?’\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNazi, please,\u201d former MTV VJ turned Gutfeld panelist Kennedy pitched.<\/p>\n Hilarious stuff, guys.<\/p>\n