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Stephen Colbert’s last show is next week, and while millions of Americans will celebrate not having to see his hateful, one-trick-pony show ever again, his fans in the liberal media are very upset.
Tonight on CNN, Jake Tapper wove a broad conspiracy as the real reason for Colbert’s cancellation, a conspiracy largely driven by Trump, and not the fact that Colbert’s show has been losing tens of millions of dollars a year for the network that carries it.
We think we’ve discovered the reason why Tapper’s ratings are so low. It has to do with being an idiot and a liar.
Partial transcript via NewsBusters:
JAKE TAPPER: Now, there’s no evidence that President Trump, who has long railed against Stephen Colbert and other late night comedians who mock him, no evidence that he demanded that Colbert be fired or his show canceled. The final episode of the Colbert show airs in one week, next Thursday, May 21st. Nor, as King Henry demonstrates, does there need to be direct order.
The people who ran Paramount, CBS’s mothership at the time that the cancellation was announced last July, Paramount at the time led by Shari Redstone, they were trying to get the Trump administration to approve a merger that would allow Shari Redstone and her team to sell the company to Skydance and they would all make a lot of money.
I should note that since then, Skydance has taken over Paramount and the company right now is going through the regulatory process to take over CNN and its parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery.
But in any case, it was in the midst of the CBS-Paramount merger last summer when Redstone and her company decided, quite surprisingly, to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. They attributed the decision to economic reasons. They denied that it was political.
Now, it is absolutely true that the economics of late night television have been challenging for quite some time due to a variety of factors including more streaming competition, declining advertising dollars, and on and on. Conan O’Brien’s late night show is no more. Ditto, the CBS comedy show that used to run after Colbert.
But I also want you to consider this calendar. July 1st, 2025, it is announced that Paramount agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit against CBS alleging unfair editing by CBS of a Kamala Harris interview on 60 Minutes. It’s a lawsuit that few, if any respected legal experts thought had any merit.
Here’s the video:
‘That meddlesome comedian has been rid. Who’s next? And how long will corporate America’s chieftains sully their reputations to please one leader?’ @jaketapper reports on the timeline of Stephen Colbert’s last show and President Trump’s criticism of the host. pic.twitter.com/8A8nJdsKD5
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) May 14, 2026
Colbert is being cancelled because his show consistently loses money. Why? Because no one is watching anymore. Why? Because his show is the same hour of unfunny Trump hatred every single night.
Trump has nothing to do with it. Nice try, Jake.
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