‘Talent of net shortage’: Trump says Stephen Colbert’s show is due to loss of $ 50 million; Next in Kimmel and Follen Line?

US President Donald Trump claimed that he did not play any role in cancellation of the late show with Stephen Collbert, but suggested that the long -running hosts were hitting the ax due to “net shortage of talent” and increasing financial loss. “Everyone is saying that I was fully responsible for the firing of CBS, Stephen Collbert from late night. It’s not true!” Trump wrote on Tuesday (local time) in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social. “The reason for which he was fired was a pure lack of talent, and the fact that the CBS was spending $ 50 million per year from this deficiency – and it was only worse!” Trump also suggested that other late night hosts would soon meet the same luck.

“The next up will be a single less talented gimmy kimmel, and then, a weak, and very unsafe, Jimmy Follen. The only real question is who will go first? Trump’s post followed the CBS announcement last Thursday that the late show would end in May 2026, with a 33 -year -old run shutdown. According to the BBC, the network said the move “purely called a financial decision against a challenging background in late night” [television]”And insisted that it was not related to the show’s performance, material or other matters in any way. , Colbert, who broke the news to his audience during a tape of the show that evening, was met at the Ed Sulivan Theater in New York with a “no” crying and crying. “I want to say that CBS people have been a great partner,” the BBC cited the host. “This is not just the end of our show, but it is the end of the late show on CBS. I am not being replaced. It is all just going away,” he said. “This is a great job. I wish someone else was getting.” Colbert took over the program from David letterman in 2015 and became one of Trump’s most prominent critics in the late night television field. The CBS -original company Paramount canceled two weeks after the solution of a case filed by Trump. The President accused the network of misleading his 2024 rival, Kamala Harris of misleading for a 60 -minute interview, “to tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party.”Colbert’s show was long criticized by conservative commentators on the alleged political bias. According to a correct media watchdog, MRC Newsbusters, the program hosted only one Republican between 176 liberal guests and 2022 and 2025. In Donald Trump, the 61 -year -old presenter continues to speculate that despite the agency citing financial reasons, the cancellation may have political undertakings. The end of the late show also comes amidst doubling of merger between paramount and Skydance media, a deal that will require the approval of the federal government. If the show is finished according to the plan in 2026, CBS will be left without late night comedy program after 1993.