The final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert aired, prompting mixed reactions. Many viewers found the ending difficult, while President Donald Trump celebrated it. Trump posted multiple times on Truth Social, calling Colbert finished at CBS and attacking him as untalented and poorly rated. He framed Colbert’s departure as the beginning of the end for other late-night hosts and wished them rest in peace. Colbert had frequently been a target of Trump’s jokes. CBS previously cited a financial decision for canceling The Late Show, but political concerns were raised due to Skydance’s attempt to buy Paramount. With Colbert no longer under CBS oversight, criticism of Trump could intensify.
"Trump spent the night posting on Truth Social multiple times about how thrilled he is to see Colbert gone. "Colbert is finally finished at CBS," he wrote at nearly two in the morning on Friday. "Amazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person. You could take any person off of the street and they would be better than this total jerk. Thank goodness he's finally gone!""
"Later that morning, he was still droning on about how great this was. "Stephen Colbert's firing from CBS was the 'Beginning of the End' for untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts," he wrote. "Others, of even less talent, to soon follow. May they all Rest in Peace! President DONALD J. TRUMP.""
"Trump was a frequent target of Colbert's jokes. When CBS canceled The Late Show last summer, the network said "This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night." However, many blamed the decision on politics because David Ellison's Skydance was attempting to buy CBS parent company Paramount and needed approval from the government to do so."
"Now that Colbert is off the air, however, he'll be able to criticize Trump without CBS standards' oversight, so this might even go worse for the president."
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