President Trump Celebrates Stephen Colbert's Cancellation: 'I Hear Jimmy Kimmel Is Next'

President Donald Trump is weighing in on CBS' cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — and wouldn't you know it, he's ecstatic.

"I absolutely love that Colbert got fired," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!

"Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined," POTUS opined, "including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show."

Five years ago, The Late Show was averaging almost four million viewers each night. Thus far, in 2025, Colbert averages 2.42 million viewers. But as pointed out by Vulture, that number still places him well ahead of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1.8 million) and NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1.2 million).

Fox News' Gutfeld!, which airs outside the traditional "late night" window (at 10 pm ET), averages 3 million total viewers per night.

Colbert announced The Late Show's cancellation at the start of Thursday's broadcast, addressing the audience from his desk and telling them, "Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending the Late Show in May."

The audience, of course, loudly booed this news, and Colbert wryly replied, "Yeah, I share your feelings."

The Late Show franchise, which started in 1993 with David Letterman, will be retired as well. "This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night," CBS said in a statement. "It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount."

It's worth mentioning that Paramount, CBS' parent company, just paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit that Trump filed over an interview with his 2024 opponent, Kamala Harris, with POTUS accusing the venerable news program of deceptive editing.

On Monday, upon his return from vacation, Colbert referred to the settlement as a "big fat bribe."