{"id":2226460,"date":"2026-01-07T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2226460"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:55:12","slug":"stephen-colbert-gives-trump-a-scathing-kennedy-center-honors-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-colbert-gives-trump-a-scathing-kennedy-center-honors-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Gives Trump A Scathing ‘Kennedy Center Honors’ Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cNobody saw that coming,\u201d Colbert said about the viewership of the CBS broadcast. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I read that wrong. Nobody saw that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNow it is beneath me to gloat, but if it weren\u2019t beneath me, I\u2019d call him, \u2018No talent, low-rated Donald Trump<\/a>,\u2019\u201d Colbert added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His joke was met with thunderous applause, cheers and \u201cStephen\u201d chants from the crowd at the \u201cLate Show,\u201d which is set to end in May following CBS\u2019 shock decision to cancel the frequent Trump critic\u2019s program. The cancellation was widely seen as the network caving to political pressure,<\/a> as parent company Paramount sought to complete a merger with Skydance Media, which required approval from the Trump administration. CBS has insisted that its move to end the \u201cLate Show\u201d was \u201cpurely a financial decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Colbert also wondered aloud whether people should cut Trump some slack, considering it was his first time hosting the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAs a former Kennedy Center host myself, I know it can take a while to build an audience. What were my ratings my first year?\u201d asked Colbert, who tossed to a graphic revealing that he drew 9.25 million viewers<\/a> when he first emcee\u2019d the ceremony in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch more of Colbert\u2019s Tuesday monologue on \u201cLate Show.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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