{"id":19373,"date":"2025-07-18T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19373\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:38:09","slug":"trump-celebrates-cbss-cancellation-of-stephen-colberts-late-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19373\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Celebrates CBS&#8217;s Cancellation Of Stephen Colbert&#8217;s &#8220;Late Show&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>\u2018 decision to cancel The Late Show with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"stephen-colbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>, and attacked the two remaining broadcast network late night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrump posted on Truth Social, \u201cI absolutely love that Colbert\u2019 got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. 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 Tonight Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCBS announced Thursday that it was axing The Late Show for \u201cfinancial reasons,\u201d even though Colbert has been at the top of the late-night ratings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe announcement was followed by speculation as to whether the cancellation was somehow tied to the pending merger of CBS-parent <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount-global\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount-global\" data-tag=\"paramount-global\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount Global<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/skydance\/\" id=\"auto-tag_skydance\" data-tag=\"skydance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skydance<\/a>. The companies need Trump administration approval for the transaction. Earlier this month, Paramount agreed to settle Trump\u2019s lawsuit against CBS for $16 million, even though the network has previously said that the lawsuit was \u201cwithout merit.\u201d Trump sued in October over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the wake of the cancellation of The Late Show, some Democrats, including Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren, have questioned whether the decision was \u201cpolitical.\u201d Colbert has long been a comedic nemesis to Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFox News has heavily promoted Greg Gutfeld as a figure atop the late-night competitive landscape. But Gutfeld doesn\u2019t go head-to-head with Colbert, Kimmel or Fallon. And Gutfeld\u2019s show airs at 10 p.m. ET, earlier in western time zones, in what technically is primetime, not late night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump celebrated CBS\u2018 decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and attacked the two remaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[991,12,5109,88,3093,17836,111,3094,10674,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-19373","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-electionline","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-paramount-global","13":"tag-paramount-skydance-merger","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-skydance","16":"tag-stephen-colbert","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}