{"id":461551,"date":"2026-05-22T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461551\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:03:18","slug":"bruce-springsteen-calls-out-trump-on-penultimate-late-show-we-got-a-president-who-cant-take-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461551\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen calls out Trump on penultimate Late Show: &#8216;we got a President who can&#8217;t take a joke&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Late Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u00a0ends its run on Thursday night after being cancelled by CBS in July last year.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s penultimate episode featured\u00a0Bruce Springsteen\u00a0performing \u2018Streets of Minneapolis\u2019, the anti-ICE\u00a0protest song he wrote in reaction to the deaths of Ren\u00e9e Good and <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/01\/25\/news\/world-news\/ice-alex-pretti-family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Pretti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a President who can\u2019t take a joke\u2019, Springsteen said before his performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And because Larry and David Ellison (owners of CBS parent company Paramount) feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small-minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Late Late Show, hosted by\u00a0Stephen Colbert\u00a0since 2015, was cancelled by CBS last July, three days after Colbert slammed the network for settling a lawsuit with the\u00a0US President.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit against CBS alleged that the network deceptively edited an interview with former US Vice President\u00a0Kamala Harris\u00a0that aired on its\u00a060 Minutes\u00a0news programme, in an effort to tip the scales in favour of the Democratic Party in the election. Paramount agreed to make the payment of $16 million to settle the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I absolutely love that Colbert got fired\u2019, <a href=\"http:\/\/extra.ie\/tag\/donald-trump\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"extra.ie\/tag\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> posted on Truth Social after learning of the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel\u00a0is next. He has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the moron on NBC who ruined the once great\u00a0Tonight Show\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Production of\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0was suspended from September 17 to September 22 last year by ABC (American Broadcasting Company).<\/p>\n<p>The suspension came following criticism from conservatives and public pressure from the Trump administration, over Kimmel\u2019s monologue commentary about President Trump and his supporters\u2019 reaction to the assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder,\u00a0Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>While Colbert has refrained from directly criticising Trump and the Ellisons, his guests have done the talking for him in the final weeks of the show.<\/p>\n<p>His predecessor, David Letterman, threw furniture off the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre onto the CBS logo.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You can take a man\u2019s show,\u2019 said Letterman, \u2018You can\u2019t take a man\u2019s voice\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Robert DeNiro\u00a0swapped seats with Colbert for the \u2018Colbert Questionert\u2019 segment of the show.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what number he was thinking of, Colbert replied, \u2018three\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Okay\u2019, said DeNiro. \u2018Because I thought it would have been two million point five, or two and a half million. That\u2019s the number of Epstein Files Trump still hasn\u2019t released\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Late Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u00a0will end its run tomorrow night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Late Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u00a0ends its run on Thursday night after being cancelled by CBS in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-461551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461551","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=461551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}