Trump’s AI – President Donald Trump kept pressing Stephen Colbert on social media after Colbert’s final “Late Show” appearance, posting an AI-generated video and repeating sharp insults and claims about CBS. Colbert, meanwhile, avoided naming Trump during his Thursday nigh
On Friday evening, President Donald Trump didn’t just move on from Stephen Colbert’s late-night goodbye—he looped back into it.
In an AI-generated video posted to his website, Trump appears tossing Colbert into a trash can before breaking into a dance as “YMCA” plays. The post landed roughly 17 hours after Trump spent the middle of the night using Truth Social to celebrate the end of Colbert’s run.
After Colbert’s final show concluded, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Colbert is finally finished at CBS.” He added, “Amazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person.”
Trump’s praise for the ending came with another round of contempt on Friday morning. On Truth Social, he wrote, “You could take any person off of the street and they would be better than this total jerk. Thank goodness he’s finally gone!”
He also escalated the language into a larger warning about who he thinks comes next. “Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the ‘Beginning of the End’ for untalented. nasty. highly overpaid. not funny. and very poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts. Others, of even less talent, to soon follow. May they all Rest in Peace!”.
Colbert’s departure comes with a different set of numbers than Trump’s critique. Colbert exits the primetime spot at No. 1 and, according to Forbes, consistently held a 2.7 million average viewership during the first quarter of the year.
Still, Trump continued to frame the change as a kind of reckoning beyond Colbert alone, returning to the theme of replacement and punishment for what he called a failing late-night class.
Thursday night’s finale offered a striking contrast. During his final episode, Colbert never mentioned Trump by name. Instead, he made one subtle reference about the president during his interview with Paul McCartney.
As they talked about performing in the same theater in 1964—around the Beatles’ iconic first U.S. television performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”—McCartney pointed to one difference between British television at the time and the U.S. version. “We’d gotten used to a little bit of makeup in England,” he said. “But we went down there, and the girls put makeup on us, and it was like bright orange.”.
Colbert responded with a joke: “That’s very popular in certain circles these days.”
McCartney then delivered the punch line, saying, “We set a trend.” Colbert replied, “Now we know where it started! Thanks a lot, Paul McCartney!”
The sequence left both sides speaking past each other: Trump turned the Colbert exit into a public. escalating sendoff with an AI-generated video and renewed insults. while Colbert closed his chapter without directly naming the president—choosing instead a Beatles-era joke that kept the focus off Trump’s feud.
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Why is he using an AI video like it’s normal? That’s just weird.
So Colbert got fired and Trump is basically celebrating like it’s a sports win lol. Also “YMCA”?? That’s honestly childish, but I guess it gets clicks.
I thought Colbert left on his own or moved to another show, not “firing from CBS.” Unless I missed it. Either way Trump making AI throw him in a trash can seems like he’s the one with no ratings.
The whole “beginning of the end” thing… like is he talking about late night in general or just CBS? Because Colbert had like those numbers (2.7 million or whatever) so this feels more like personal beef than anything. And turning to Truth Social at 3am to dunk on somebody is kinda the definition of obsession, not “replacement.”