‘Go F*** Yourself’: Colbert Unleashes Anti-Trump Tirade Amid Report His Show Loses $40M Annually

Late-night host Stephen Colbert went on a lengthy tirade against President Donald Trump during Monday night’s episode of “The Late Show,” addressing a report that his program loses $40 million per season.

Several comedians and fellow hosts showed up for the latest episode to support Colbert and bash Trump. 

At one point, Colbert responded to Trump’s celebratory social media post about the show being canceled, in which the president taunted Colbert, saying, “His talent was even less than his ratings.”

“How dare you, sir,” Colbert said. “Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go f*** yourself!”

“Cancel culture has gone too far,” Colbert said during his monologue. “Last week, we learned that ‘The Late Show’ will be ending in May. I want to thank everybody who reached out to me over the weekend, including one text from an unknown number, offering a high-paying IT work-from-home job for only two to three hours a day. Yes, I am very interested and I will be sending you my routing number in May. Daddy needs a job.”

The host mentioned how it’s now sunk in that CBS is “killing” his show. 

“But they made one mistake. They left me alive. Now, for the next 10 months, the gloves are off. I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump. I don’t care for him. Doesn’t have the skillset to be president,” Colbert continued.

Earlier this month, Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, agreed to a $16 million settlement in a lawsuit Trump had brought accusing the media outlet of election interference. The lawsuit stemmed from an interview CBS News’s “60 Minutes” conducted with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris one month before the 2024 election. The lawsuit alleged that the interview was edited to make it seem more coherent than it really was.

“People have been speculating about the timing of this decision from Paramount, and they’re pointing out that last Monday, just two days before my cancellation, I delivered a blistering monologue in which I showed the courage to have a mustache,” said Colbert. “When obviously CBS saw my upper lip and boom, canceled. Coincidence? Oh, I think not. This is worse than fascism. This is stashism.”

“They clarified that the cancellation was purely a financial decision. But how could it purely be a financial decision if ‘The Late Show’ is number one in ratings? A lot of folks are asking that question, mainly my staff’s parents and spouses,” Colbert went on. 

Next, he accused CBS insiders of leaking financial details to justify the cancellation.

“Over the weekend, somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak saying they pulled the plug on our show because of losses pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year. $40 million is a big number. I could see us losing $24 million, but where would Paramount have possibly spent the other $16 million? Oh, yeah,” he said, seemingly referencing the amount of the settlement.