{"id":503417,"date":"2026-02-27T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503417\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:48:08","slug":"stephen-colbert-pokes-trump-in-one-of-his-sorest-of-all-sore-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503417\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Pokes Trump In One Of His Sorest Of All Sore Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLate Show\u201d host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/stephen-colbert\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Stephen Colbert\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69a157a9e4b0302539932fbe\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/entertainment\/topic\/stephen-colbert\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> on Thursday broke some bad news for President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Donald Trump\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69a157a9e4b0302539932fbe\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> after this week\u2019s State of the Union address. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is really dragging down broadcast television,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cI mean, if I were CBS, I\u2019d cancel him.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The audience cheered loudly at the line, which doubled as a jab at his own employer. CBS announced last year that it would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/url-cbs-stephen-colbert-late-show-cancel-2026_n_6879868de4b0b08368f597ee\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"canceling Colbert\u2019s show\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69a157a9e4b0302539932fbe\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6879868de4b0b08368f597ee\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">canceling Colbert\u2019s show<\/a>, in a move the network claimed was \u201cpurely a financial decision\u201d but came as parent company Paramount sought federal approval to complete a merger.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert said one rating, however, didn\u2019t drop: his own. <\/p>\n<p>The live post-speech edition of \u201cThe Late Show\u201d was up 7% compared with his broadcast after last year\u2019s address. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what I think was going on?\u201d he theorized. \u201cPeople may not like watching Trump, but they do like watching me not like watching Trump.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>See more in his Thursday night monologue: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert on Thursday broke some bad news for President Donald Trump after this week\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,1376,75,198741,3668],"class_list":["post-503417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-stephen-colbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}