The ‘Late Present’ with Stephen Colbert failed for 2 easy causes. First, Colbert used the present as nothing greater than a car for his personal private and pathological hatred of Trump. This precipitated a lot of folks to cease watching and in flip, advertisers started pulling away from the present. In consequence, the present began bleeding cash for CBS, to the tune of $40 million a year.
In different phrases, this was not about politics, simply basic math.
If CBS diminished Colbert’s wage from $20m to $0, the present would nonetheless be shedding $20m per yr. How within the hell was he not let go earlier?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) July 18, 2025
In response to the present’s cancellation, Democrats are pushing conspiracy theories that the present was pulled for criticizing Trump. If that was true, the present would have been axed years in the past.
Democrats are additionally heaping reward on Colbert, inadvertently proving that the present in the end failed as a result of it turned a mouthpiece for his or her celebration.
Take a look at these ridiculous tweets:
Thanks Stephen Colbert on your willingness to talk reality to energy.
Staying removed from timid.
And by no means bending the knee to a wannabe king. pic.twitter.com/L9EzYzU5IE
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) July 19, 2025
Stephen Colbert is the perfect within the enterprise. He at all times instructed reality to energy and pulled no punches. We’d like extra of that, not much less. pic.twitter.com/nFMnbwfhWR
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) July 19, 2025
The information of Stephen Colbert’s late-night present cancellation is disheartening. I’ve been lucky to look on @colbertlateshow 4 totally different occasions. Every time, Stephen requested vital questions and made positive to make us snort. pic.twitter.com/ChXjVtblvn
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) July 18, 2025
Stephen Colbert is an excellent host and a good higher individual. I at all times beloved being on The Late Present, and our most tough and memorable interview was broadcast reside from the Capitol the evening of Jan. 6. pic.twitter.com/xRmuCNiPJC
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) July 18, 2025
And the conspiracy theories proceed:
CBS’s billionaire homeowners pay Trump $16 million to settle a bogus lawsuit whereas attempting to promote the community to Skydance.
Stephen Colbert, a rare expertise and the most well-liked late evening host, slams the deal. Days later, he is fired.
Do I believe this can be a coincidence? NO.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 18, 2025
When you refuse to see what is occurring, the cancellation of the Colbert present ought to open your eyes.
I need to clarify to you what a censorship state appears like – the place a corrupt authorities provides favors to media that suppresses criticism of the regime. pic.twitter.com/qxWJ7hqBsE
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 19, 2025
I’ve been investigating Paramount’s take care of Trump. Right here’s what we all know:
– Trump sued CBS
– CBS referred to as the lawsuit “meritless”
– Paramount (proprietor of CBS) nonetheless settled, handing $16 MILLION+ to Trump’s library
– Paramount has a billion-dollar deal that wants Trump’s approval https://t.co/GRxxKFzkII— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) July 18, 2025
They’re merely unable or unwilling to face actuality. Nobody ‘pressured’ Colbert off the air. He did this to himself by a sequence of deliberate choices that made the present unprofitable. In doing so, he not solely ended his personal job, he killed the legacy of David Letterman and the Late Present.
