Stephen Colbert has been running “The Late Show” on television for more than a decade.
He adopted an agenda opposing and criticizing Donald Trump years ago, and had made his program essentially a one-subject presentation. That’s a complete abandonment of the likes of Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, who for years were successful by welcoming all and, equally, ridiculing all.
The late-night audience also has changed, and as a result, Colbert’s show has been losing $40 million a year. So it was cancelled.
Colbert had 200+ staffers, 22 writers, and lost CBS $40 MILLION a year just to be a predictable anti-Trump circus with almost zero conservatives on.
➡️That wasn’t a late night show — that was liberal welfare. The American people just voted that garbage off the air. pic.twitter.com/DqZHnFx7i2
— ✞🎀TrumpGirlOnFire 🔥 (@TrumpGirlOnFire) May 22, 2026
.@benfergusonshow laughs in Charles Blow’s face on CNN NewsNight after Blow claims that Stephen Colbert’s show was ended because Trump is “authoritarian.”
Ferguson: “Part of me laughs like the idea that like this guy canceled because of Trump. No, it got canceled because the… pic.twitter.com/H69iJsbwL5
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 22, 2026
And President Trump responded to the end of endless hours of leftist attacks during that time slot with an AI creation showing him picking up Colbert and trashing him, literally.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2026
Colbert signed off his last show Friday.
The video shows Colbert standing on stage for his monologue, only to have Trump grab him and toss him into a garbage bin.
Then Trump, accompanied by the tune “YMCA,” signed off with his dance.
The Washington Examiner had reported that earlier, Trump said, “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. Others, of even less talent, to soon follow. May they all Rest in Peace!”
Democrats went the other direction, giving Colbert a heart-felt thanks for the hours and hours he provided for Democrats, the Bidens, the Obamas, and more, to deliver their messaging over and over to a viewing audience.
Thank you, Stephen Colbert. pic.twitter.com/8tVBbtfiRi
— Democrats (@TheDemocrats) May 22, 2026
Fox News reported that the back-slapping was so obvious that X users “roasted Democrats … after the party’s official account posted a tribute to comedian Stephen Colbert one day after his late-night era came to a close.”
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, “He did a great job of using the public airawaves to carry your water.”
Another commenter scorched the party for “admit[ting]” that Colbert was its propagandist.
Totally normal late night comedy program where a political party is mourning its loss by posting photos of all of the candidates the late night comedy program promoted for free https://t.co/2E4tOJw5vN
— Sunny (@sunnyright) May 23, 2026
Other criticisms included a description of Cobert’s work as repetitive and an unfunny collection of Trump-bashing.
Colbert frequently unleashed extremisms against Trump, like, “Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine. You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head.”
He danced and drank champagne when Joe Biden was elected.
And Colbert was caught shimmying with Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of Trump’s most abrasive critics.
Colbert also actively worked to raise cash for Democrats, moderating a “conversation” involving Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, that raised $26 million for Biden’s soon-to-collapse campaign in 2024.
Colbert even advocated for extremists including James Talarico and Zohran Mamdani.
