{"id":2605817,"date":"2026-05-22T10:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rejoices-after-stephen-colberts-last-show\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:56:43","slug":"trump-rejoices-after-stephen-colberts-last-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rejoices-after-stephen-colberts-last-show\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u00a0Trump rejoices after Stephen Colbert\u2019s last show"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-rejoices-after-stephen-colberts-last-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2605817&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump celebrated the end of Stephen Colbert\u2019s *Late Show*, saying Colbert is \u201cfinally finished at CBS\u201d after Colbert hosted his last episode, titled \u201cHello, Goodbye,\u201d on thursday. In posts on Truth Social, Trump mocked colbert as untalented and repeatedly attacked the show\u2019s value, framing the cancellation as the start of broader shakeups for other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-get-a-tougher-skin-and-weird-s-happens-im-looking-forward-to-that-greg-gutfeld-on-the-launch-of-his-late-night-fox-news-show-gutfeld\/\" title=\"\u2018You Get A Tougher Skin And Weird S*** Happens. I\u2019m Looking Forward To That.\u2019 Greg Gutfeld On The Launch Of His Late-... Fox News Show, \u2018Gutfeld!\u2019\">late-night hosts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The *late Show* concluded after 11 years on CBS,following CBS\u2019s announcement last July that the show would end for \u201cpurely a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dems-pass-massive-voting-rights-bill-conservatives-claim-it-will-chill-speech-demolish-election-integrity\/\" title=\"House Dems Pass Massive\u00a0\u2018Voting Rights\u2019 Bill; Conservatives Claim It Will Chill Speech, Demolish\u00a0Election Integrity\">financial decision<\/a>\u201d amid a tough late-night environment. Trump had previously railed against Colbert and praised the network\u2019s decision. Colbert\u2019s departure also drew reflection from former host David Letterman, who said the end of the franchise is a loss for American culture and argued late-night has long provided a valuable, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >widely shared comedic perspective<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\"> Donald Trump<\/a> on Friday celebrated the death of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stephen-colbert\/\">Stephen Colbert\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-comedy-manager-leaves-entertainment-industry-to-start-unsafe-space-podcast-after-seeing-the-light\/\" title=\"Woke Comedy Manager Leaves Entertainment Industry To Start \u2018Unsafe Space\u2019 Podcast After \u2018Seeing The Light\u2019\">late-night show<\/a>, after years of trashing the comedian. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 11 years of <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, <\/em>Colbert hosted his last episode, titled\u00a0\u201cHello, Goodbye,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4578698\/stephen-colbert-signs-off-one-last-time-hello-goodbye\/\">on Thursday evening<\/a>. The president weighed in shortly after it wrapped, hailing the end of the <em>Late Show<\/em> franchise.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4578698\/stephen-colbert-signs-off-one-last-time-hello-goodbye\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Stephen Colbert signs off one last time: \u2018Hello, Goodbye\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4577918\/spencer-pratt-says-his-role-model-is-jesus-christ\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Spencer Pratt says his role model is Jesus Christ<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4577769\/jimmy-fallon-mocks-trump-irs-settlement-tonight-show\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Jimmy Fallon mocks Trump-IRS settlement: \u2018So he got immunity, no more audits, OMG\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cColbert is finally finished at CBS,\u201d Trump wrote<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116616669222083429\"> in a post<\/a> to Truth Social. \u201cAmazing that he lasted so long!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo talent, no ratings, no life,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe 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\u2019s finally gone!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116618496946919115\">follow-up post<\/a>, Trump wrote a veiled threat aimed at other late-night hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStephen Colbert\u2019s firing from CBS was the \u201cBeginning of the End\u201d for untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts. Others, of even less talent, to soon follow. May they all Rest in Peace!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development comes after Trump had <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3476548\/trump-celebrates-stephen-colbert-show-cancellation\/\">long railed against Colbert<\/a>, praising <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1329\">CBS\u2019s<\/a> announcement last July that they would cancel the show. At the time,\u00a0CBS cited the move as \u201cpurely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-people-were-vicious-i-saw-all-kinds-of-illegal-behavior-michigan-election-witness-who-saw-4-am-illegal-ballot-drop-for-biden-speaks-out-video\/\" title=\"&quot;These People Were Vicious - I Saw All Kinds of Illegal Behavior&quot; - Michigan Election Witness Who Saw 4 AM Illegal Ballot Drop for Biden Speaks Out (VIDEO)\">late night<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI absolutely love that Colbert got fired,\u201d Trump gloated in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114874422468516376\">a Truth Social post<\/a>. \u201cHis talent was even less than his ratings.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colbert took over the show in 2015, succeeding the original host, David Letterman. Letterman mourned the end of the franchise this week, describing it as a loss for American culture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4544508\/white-house-blames-left-wing-culture-of-hatred-for-correspondents-dinner-assassination-attempt\/\"><strong>WHITE HOUSE BLAMES \u2018LEFT-WING CULTURE OF HATRED\u2019 FOR CORRESPONDENTS\u2019 DINNER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKind of makes me sad,\u201d he <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/entertainment\/entertainment-news\/david-letterman-reacts-end-of-stephen-colbert-late-show\/4107377\/\">told<\/a> NBC News. \u201cWe always relied on \u2014 you would read the newspaper in the morning, and at night you would see Johnny Carson. And Johnny would give you a perspective whether you agreed with it or not, but it was always funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd without that, I think we\u2019re losing a valuable perspective,\u201d Letterman added. \u201cI think it\u2019s very, very important to the American culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump praised the end of Colbert\u2019s Late Show, \u201cHello, Goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2605818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Feat.LateNight.081325.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[59658,38026,3634],"class_list":["post-2605817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-late-night-2","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Feat.LateNight.081325.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605821,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605817\/revisions\/2605821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}