Yahoo Lifestyle Donald Trump Blasts Stephen Colbert & Calls Him “Very Boring” In Late-Night Rant: “CBS Should Terminate His Contract”
UPDATED with Stephen Colbert’s response: Donald Trump loves to rant on social media and has recently gone after late-night show hosts, with Stephen Colbert being his latest target.
The former president of the United States went on a tirade against the comedian after watching him in a PBS interview.
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“I briefly watched an interview of Stephen Colbert on highly government subsidized PBS, and found it fascinating for only one reason — Why would they be wasting time and the public’s money on this complete and total loser?” Trump shared on Truth Social on Tuesday, September 24. “He is not funny, which he gets paid far too much to be, he is not wise, he is VERY BORING, and his show is dying from a complete lack of viewers.”
Trump suggested that Fox News host Greg Gutfeld’s late-night show “is killing him” in viewership.
“CBS should terminate his contract and pick almost anyone, right off the street, who would do better, and for FAR LESS MONEY,” Trump continued. “Or I could recommend someone, much more talented, and smarter, who would do it for FREE!”
Trump ended his late-night rant taking a jab at Colbert’s competitors saying, “The good news for Stephen is that the two DOPES on NBC & ABC are not much better than him!”
Colbert’s counterparts include Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show and Seth Meyers on Late Night, both on NBC, and Jimmy Kimmel on ABC.
On Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the host hit back at Trump. “If you’re wondering why Trump wrote in all caps that I am ‘very boring,’ I am confident it is because during that PBS interview, I said this,” he explained.
Colbert shared a clip of the interviewer asking if he’d ever have Trump on the show, to which he quipped, “I’ve had him before, and he’s kind of boring. So, no.”
Colbert was recently featured in an interview on PBS NewsHour, where he was asked if he would have Trump as a guest on the CBS late-night show.
“I’ve had him before, and he was kind of boring, so no,” Colbert said. “I don’t like to have people on the show who I don’t think are going to be honest agents of their own ideas.”
Trump has been fixated on late-night TV hosts recently. During a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday, September 23, he suggested that NBC bring Johnny Carson back to The Tonight Show. The problem with Trump’s request is that Carson died in 2005.
“When I first ran in 2015 or was thinking about running I went on [Jimmy’s] show, The Tonight Show, which is dying,” Trump said at his rally. “They’re all dying. Where is Johnny Carson? Bring back Johnny. It made you appreciate the greatness of Johnny Carson. These three guys are so bad.”
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