Stephen Colbert Turns Donald Trump’s ‘The Late Show’ Cancelation Gloat Into Late-Night Gold

Published 07/22/2025, 1:45 AM EDT

In America, where billionaires launch rockets and politicians launch Truth Social posts, it only makes sense that Stephen Colbert and Donald Trump are locked in a late-night slap fight. The Late Show squares off against the self-proclaimed ratings czar. One delivers punchlines, the other hurls all-caps posts. It is less democracy, more dinner theater, and in the USA, that is just another Tuesday.

While Donald Trump smashes out all-caps posts like a boomer stuck on CAPS LOCK, Stephen Colbert claps back with a zinger sharp enough to get its own Rotten Tomatoes score.

Donald Trump brags, Stephen Colbert claps back, The Late Show just became the real battlefield

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Donald Trump’s victory lap came in 280-character bursts on his Truth Social account, where he gloated, “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings.” Enter Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, responding with the kind of precision only a seasoned satirist could muster: “How dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go f--- yourself.” He shared the monologue on Instagram, where it landed like a verbal grenade, so sharp it could slice through Trump’s Truth Social servers.

Not content with just one target, Donald Trump unleashed his digital wrath on the entire late-night lineup. In his universe, Greg Gutfeld is apparently the Thanos of comedy, snapping his fingers to erase Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon in a single swipe. For everyone else, though, it felt less like a power move and more like fanfiction gone spectacularly off the rails.

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Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show axing: When CBS math looks like politics

CBS insists The Late Show was axed for financial reasons, despite Stephen Colbert’s rating supremacy. But with Paramount’s looming merger and a recently settled Donald Trump lawsuit, conspiracy theorists are lighting up Reddit like Christmas trees. Add in Democratic heavyweights Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren questioning the timing, and suddenly the cancellation feels less like corporate math and more like political theater. Somewhere, Shakespeare is taking notes as Colbert gets metaphorically stabbed in the ratings, muttering, “Et tu, CBS?"

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Protests erupted outside the Ed Sullivan Theater as fans demanded Stephen Colbert stay and Donald Trump go. Meanwhile, fellow hosts Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart are rumored to join Colbert in solidarity, because if late-night is going down, it might as well go down as an ensemble piece. In the end, it felt less like a cancellation and more like Stephen Colbert bidding goodbye with his signature flair.

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What are your thoughts on Stephen Colbert’s savage sendoff and Donald Trump’s late-night trolling spree? Let us know in the comments below.

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