‘The Late Show’: Trump says satirist Stephen Colbert must be ‘put down’ | EUROtoday

US President Donald Trump has sharply attacked the satirist and speak present host Stephen Colbert. The US broadcaster CBS, which broadcasts Colbert’s program “The Late Show”, ought to “put him to sleep”, stated Trump on Tuesday (native time) in his on-line service Truth Social. “It’s the only humane thing you can do,” he added.

Colbert has “actually gotten worse” since saying the cancellation of his present, Trump stated. The satirist was a “miserable disaster,” he added.

Colbert’s present is scheduled to finish in May 2026. CBS introduced this in July. That similar month, the broadcaster agreed to pay the president $16 million in a authorized dispute with Trump. According to CBS, the cancellation of the present was “a purely financial decision.” Colbert is considered one of Trump’s harshest critics, and his “Late Show” is the preferred late-night present within the USA.

CBS’ mother or father firm, Paramount Skydance, is headed by David Ellison, son of billionaire Trump ally Larry Ellison. After Ellison took over this yr, the corporate named conservative journalist Bari Weiss editor-in-chief.