Stephen Colbert, long known for lacing his monologues with tired Trump jokes and smug leftist talking points, finally snapped Monday night — and not in a good way. Facing the end of his struggling CBS late-night show, Colbert lashed out at President Trump in a bitter, profanity-laced tirade that sounded more like a tantrum than comedy.
During his latest monologue on *The Late Show with Stephen Colbert*, the 61-year-old host, who’s spent the better part of a decade obsessed with Trump, actually called himself a “martyr” for getting axed by CBS. This came after the former president celebrated Colbert’s upcoming exit, posting on Truth Social: “I absolutely love that Colbert was fired,” and predicting that Jimmy Kimmel could be next.
Rather than reflect on his show’s ratings slide or his overt political bias that alienated half the country, Colbert chose vulgarity and victimhood. In response to Trump’s post, Colbert looked into the camera and declared: “How dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go f–k yourself.”
Yes, that was his punchline — the kind of “satire” that’s earned him dwindling viewership and now, finally, a pink slip. Colbert doubled down, claiming he would go even harder at Trump now that CBS had canceled *The Late Show*, which will officially end in May 2026.
“They made one mistake, they left me alive. For the next 10 months, the gloves are off,” he vowed. Of course, the gloves were never really *on* to begin with. Colbert has spent nearly every show since 2015 spewing anti-Trump rants disguised as jokes, with little else to offer his audience but predictable cheap shots at conservatives.
As he wrapped his Monday segment, Colbert turned to fellow liberal late-night host Jimmy Kimmel — who has also seen ratings plummet — and proclaimed, “Kimmel, I am the martyr. There’s only room for one on this cross. And the view is fantastic from up here. I can see your house.”
It was a bizarre and self-aggrandizing moment that sums up everything wrong with today’s late-night comedy: coastal elitists talking down to Middle America, mistaking their own political grudges for entertainment, and then acting shocked when the viewers — and the advertisers — finally walk away.
Notably, Colbert’s meltdown comes just days after he took a swipe at his own network’s parent company, Paramount. He slammed a \$16 million legal settlement they reached with the Trump administration, accusing them of effectively paying a “big fat bribe” to grease the wheels of a merger with Skydance Media. That may not have helped his standing inside corporate boardrooms either.
In the end, Stephen Colbert’s downfall isn’t about Trump — it’s about a host who forgot how to be funny, and a show that turned into a never-ending lecture. Viewers were looking for laughs and levity. Colbert gave them scorn and sanctimony.
And now, at long last, the curtain is coming down.
