{"id":259841,"date":"2026-01-23T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259841\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:45:12","slug":"stephen-colbert-ruthlessly-taunts-his-cbs-bosses-with-a-scathing-trump-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259841\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Ruthlessly Taunts His CBS Bosses With A Scathing Trump Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert<\/a> took aim at his corporate bosses on Thursday night with a reminder of just how much money the company has given to President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Colbert noted that nations hoping to join Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace<\/a>\u201d for Gaza will have to pay an entry fee of $1 billion \u2015 and that the board will have just one man in charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll give you a hint,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cHe\u2019s in the diaper.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump will have the only veto on the board and serve as its chairman for life, Colbert said. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow, admittedly, the idea of paying a billion dollars to obey Donald Trump seems a little steep,\u201d Colbert pointed out. \u201cAfter all, CBS got to do it for just $16 million.\u201d <\/p>\n

That payment came when the company was attempting to complete a merger that required Federal Communications Commission approval. Around the same time, the network announced it would cancel Colbert\u2019s show, something Trump<\/a> had long demanded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The FCC approved the merger shortly afterward. <\/p>\n

See more in his Thursday night monologue: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert took aim at his corporate bosses on Thursday night with a reminder of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[283,969,93,38397,61,60,3282,1138,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-259841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cbs","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-federal-communications-commission","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-paramount","15":"tag-stephen-colbert","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}