'Next to go!' Trump says two more late-night comedy giants are about to be fired
President Donald Trump is targeting other late-night talk show hosts after CBS canceled "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert."
Colbert had criticized CBS parent company Paramount's $16 million settlement over a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris that Trump claimed was misleading. On Tuesday, the president called for two other talk show hosts who have mocked him to be forced out of their jobs.
"The word is, and it’s a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, [Jimmy] Fallon will be gone," Trump posted, just minutes before an Oval Office meeting with Philippines president Bonbong Marcos. "These are people with absolutely NO TALENT, who were paid Millions of Dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television. It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!"
The president celebrated Colbert's firing over the weekend on Truth Social and claimed ABC would end Kimmel's show, and the CBS host addressed Trump on his first show back since the cancellation.
"How dare you, sir?" Colbert said during Monday's broadcast. "Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism?: "Go f--k yourself."
Fallon drew strong criticism in September 2016 when he hosted Trump, then the Republican nominee for president in his first campaign, on his "Tonight Show" and mussed his famously puffy hair.
“I did not do it to ‘normalize’ him or to say I believe in his political beliefs or any of that stuff," Fallon said almost two years later.