Donald Trump says he had nothing to do with CBS cancelling “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert.”
In a put up to Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump claimed that “everyone” thinks he was “solely accountable” for the top of “The Late Present,” an accusation the President declared “not true!” He asserted the rationale Stephen Colbert was cancelled was because of “$50 Million {Dollars} a yr” in losses and a “pure lack of TALENT.”
“All people is saying that I used to be solely chargeable for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, ‘Late Night time’” Trump wrote. “That isn’t true! The explanation 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!”
Trump went on to say the “even much less proficient” Jimmy Kimmel, who hosts ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmy Dwell!,” and the “weak, and really insecure” Jimmy Fallon of NBC’s “The Tonight Present,” are subsequent on the chopping block.
“Subsequent up might be an excellent much less proficient Jimmy Kimmel, after which, a weak, and really insecure, Jimmy Fallon,” he added. “The one actual query is, who will go first? Present Biz and Tv is a quite simple enterprise. If you happen to get Scores, you possibly can say or do something. If you happen to don’t, you at all times turn into a sufferer. Colbert grew to become a sufferer to himself, the opposite two will observe.”
Whereas unnamed in Trump’s put up, Seth Meyers not too long ago addressed his future within the late-night area. He stated the destiny of his present, “Late Night time With Seth Meyers,” is “exterior of my management.”
“There’s this bizarre factor that I really feel like I shifted from fearing that I wouldn’t be adequate,” he said. “And now my worry is weirdly extra exterior of my management, which is … simply sooner or later, the ecosystem may not assist [late-night].”
