President Trump
I Did not Get Colbert Canceled …
He Ought to Look in Mirror
Printed July 29, 2025 6:07 PM PDT
President Trump says it is not true that he was “solely accountable” for CBS and Paramount firing Stephen Colbert from his late-night discuss present.
Trump hopped on Fact Social on Tuesday and tried to distance himself from the firing, which has stirred up an enormous controversy.
POTUS says … “The rationale he was fired was a pure lack of TALENT, and the truth that this deficiency was costing CBS $50 Million {Dollars} a yr in losses — And it was solely going to get WORSE!”
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Trump continues … “Subsequent up will probably be an excellent much less gifted Jimmy Kimmelafter which, a weak, and really insecure, Jimmy Fallon. The one actual query is, who will go first?”
Numerous of us assume Trump used a pending merger between Skydance and Paramount as a technique to get Colbert, a Trump critic, off the air … because the FCC wanted to approve the deal.
Colbert bought canned after which the FCC gave the inexperienced mild on the most important merger.
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However Trump says he is not the scapegoat right here … though he is taking some jabs at different discuss present hosts who wish to make jokes about him on late-night TV.
Trump concludes … “Present Biz and Tv is a quite simple enterprise. Should you get Rankings, you may say or do something. Should you don’t, you at all times develop into a sufferer. Colbert grew to become a sufferer to himself, the opposite two will comply with.”