{"id":2065830,"date":"2025-10-03T04:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2065830"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:30:26","slug":"stephen-colbert-trolls-trump-about-government-shutdown-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-colbert-trolls-trump-about-government-shutdown-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert trolls Trump about government shutdown &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Stephen Colbert couldn\u2019t help but poke fun at\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/news\/politics\/185645\/photograph-trumps-failed-negotiations-democrats\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s latest downfall<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">During the latest segment of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>, the host, 61, took yet another dig at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/donald-trump\">the U.S. president<\/a> over the government shutdown that commenced on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Taking every possible jibe he can make before <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Complicated reason The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was canceled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/180551\/Stephen-Colbert-canceled-real-reason\">his show\u2019s final episode<\/a>, he started, \u201cWell, I tell you folks, I definitely did not call this one, but evidently, The Late Show has outlasted the U.S. government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still open and they have shut down,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The host thinks \u201cmaybe this is a good thing\u201d since \u201cthe government hasn\u2019t been working that great lately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWho knows why?\u201d he sarcastically questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing it to an electronic device, he said, \u201cMaybe someone got the government wet, you know? Let\u2019s unplug it for a while, plug it back in, and see if it reboots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He suggested a few more options, such as \u201ctossing it in a bag of rice\u201d or trashing it entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoesn\u2019t work? We\u2019ll just throw it away and buy a new one with a better camera and a functioning president,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>When talking to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Instagram\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/instagram\">Instagram<\/a> with the show\u2019s clip, he mentioned, \u201cPatiently waiting for our new and improved (role) model to show up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colbert\u2019s relationship with Trump has been causing a frenzy lately, especially since many speculate that the president had something to do with the host\u2019s show getting canceled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON&#8217;T MISS&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/tv\/183777\/stephen-colbert-emmy-awards\">Stephen Colbert gets &#8216;last laugh&#8217; as he wins big at Emmys after Late Show axe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/tv\/183608\/jennifer-aniston-auditions-stephen-colbert\">Jennifer Aniston &#8216;auditions&#8217; Stephen Colbert for Apple TV series on Late Show<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/tv\/183150\/stephen-colbert-emmys-late-show\">Stephen Colbert to take stage at Emmy Awards after Late Show axing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In July, Colbert criticized the president and Paramount for their $16 million settlement on a lawsuit the president filed over the way a 60 Minutes interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Kamala Harris\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> was edited in the lead-up to the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the issue, the host said, \u201cI believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles: it\u2019s &#8216;big, fat bribe.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just three days later, the network announced it would be canceling the beloved late-night talk show, and the last episode would air in May 2026. CBS also shared that the franchise will retire with the &#8220;irreplaceable&#8221; host.<\/p>\n<p>On his Truth Social account, Trump seemingly admitted he was involved in CBS\u2019s decision but couldn\u2019t take the full blame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody is saying that I was solely responsible for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, Late Night. That is not true!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cThe reason he was fired was a pure lack of TALENT, and the fact that this deficiency was costing CBS $50 Million a year in losses \u2014 and it was only going to get WORSE!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert couldn\u2019t help but poke fun at\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s latest downfall. During the latest segment of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the host, 61, took yet another dig at the U.S. president over the government shutdown that commenced on Oct. 1. Taking every possible jibe he can make before his show\u2019s final episode, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2065831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22405,22389,386064,24386,385270,23060,386065,377907,22653,386063,346738,338310],"class_list":["post-2065830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-cbs","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-truth-social","tag-entertainment-news","tag-government-shutdown","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-late-night-host","tag-late-night-shows","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-stephen-colbert-cancellation","tag-the-late-show-cancellation","tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stephen-Colbert-trolls-Trump-about-government-shutdown-Celebrity-News.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065832,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065830\/revisions\/2065832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}