{"id":181798,"date":"2025-07-20T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/donald-trump-gloats-over-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-axe\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:03:18","slug":"donald-trump-gloats-over-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/donald-trump-gloats-over-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-axe\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump gloats over Late Show with Stephen Colbert axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-07-20\" datetime=\"1752998598\" pubdate=\"\">20 July 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> &#8220;absolutely loves&#8221; that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Donald Trump is pleased Stephen Colbert has lost his job<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old presenter confirmed that CBS has pulled the plug on his nightly talk show on Thursday (17.07.25), with the final episode set to air in May, and the US president has weighed in on the news, admitting he is delighted that Stephen &#8211; who has hosted the programme since 2015 &#8211; has been &#8220;fired&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also couldn&#8217;t resist taking swipes at two other talk show hosts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jimmy-kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> and Jimmy Fallon.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote on Truth Social: \u201cI absolutely love that Colbert got fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis talent was even less than his ratings. I hear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jimmy-kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;[Fox News late night host] 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>\nKimmel has offered support to Stephen in the wake of the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe wrote on Instagram: \u201cLove you Stephen. F*** you and all your Sheldons CBS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd The Tonight Show host Fallon was &#8220;shocked&#8221; by the news.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe wrote on Instagram: &#8220;I&#8217;m just as shocked as everyone. Stephen is one of the sharpest, funniest hosts to ever do it. I really thought I&#8217;d ride this out with him for years to come. I&#8217;m sad that my family and friends will need a new show to watch every night at 11:30. But honestly, he&#8217;s really been a gentleman and a true friend over the years \u2014 going back to The Colbert Report, and I&#8217;m sure whatever he does next will be just as brilliant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nLate Night host Seth Meyers has also expressed his support for Stephen.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said on Instagram: &#8220;For as great a comedian and host he is, Stephen Colbert is an even better person. I\u2019m going to miss having him on TV every night but I\u2019m excited he can no longer use the excuse that he\u2019s \u2018too busy to hang out\u2019 with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nStephen announced the axing of The Late Show on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;Before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season, the network will be ending The Late Show in May.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nStephen &#8211; who replaced David Letterman at the helm in 2015 &#8211; added: &#8220;I\u2019m not being replaced. This is all just going away. I do want to say that the folks at CBS have been great partners \u2026 And I\u2019m grateful to the audience, you, who have joined us every night, in here, out there, and all around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I am extraordinarily, deeply grateful to the 200 people who work here. We get to do this show. We get to do this show for each other every day, all day, and I&#8217;ve had the pleasure and the responsibility of sharing what we do every day with you in front of this camera for the last 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/donald-trump-gloats-late-show-stephen-colbert-axe-1422299.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 July 2025 Donald Trump &#8220;absolutely loves&#8221; that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been cancelled. Donald Trump is pleased Stephen Colbert has lost his job The 61-year-old presenter confirmed that CBS has pulled the plug on his nightly talk show on Thursday (17.07.25), with the final episode set to air in May, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,681,28,3499,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-181798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-jimmy-fallon","10":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","11":"tag-seth-meyers","12":"tag-stephen-colbert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}