Trump Celebrates ‘Total Jerk’ Colbert’s CBS Exit; Late-Night Host Once Told President ‘Go F— Yourself’

President Donald Trump’s wrath toward late-night comedian who relentlessly mock him is no secret. So it was no surprise that Trump couldn’t resist the opportunity to blast Stephen Colbert after the host signed off from CBS’s “The Late Show” for the last time Thursday.

In a post at 1:52 a.m. ET, the U.S. president wrote on his Truth Social account, “Colbert is finally finished at CBS. Amazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person. You could take any person off of the street and they would be better than this total jerk. Thank goodness he’s finally gone!”

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After CBS announced last summer that it was canceling “The Late Show,” Trump gloated that “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.” A few days later on the show, Colbert fired back — telling the president, “Go fuck yourself” (with the f-bomb bleeped out on the CBS telecast).

Colbert’s final show on May 21 featured a roster of celebrity and musical guests, including Paul McCartney, who shut down the power to the Ed Sullivan Theater in a prerecorded bit to bring the curtain down on the show after 11 seasons.

Others who appeared on “The Late Show” send-off included Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, Ryan Reynolds, Tim Meadows and Tig Notaro.

CBS insisted the cancellation of “The Late Show” was “purely a financial decision” coming after a years-long decline in the economics of late-night TV. But many observers and fans believe Colbert was axed because Donald Trump didn’t like being the target of the host’s jokes. Trump had called for CBS to pull the plug early on “The Late Show” last December, calling Colbert “a pathetic trainwreck, with no talent or anything else necessary for show business success.”

Last fall Colbert had addressed the question of whether CBS canceled his show was politically motivated, saying that was “a reasonable thing to think” but that it wouldn’t be “fruitful” for him “to engage in that speculation.” Outside the Ed Sullivan Theater on Thursday, several Colbert fans told Variety that they believed CBS did in fact kill the show for political reasons.

Trump also has raged against Jimmy Kimmel, calling on Disney and ABC to fire him after Kimmel’s joke about the First Lady. The April 23 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” featured a fake White House Correspondents’ Dinner and during the bit, Kimmel quipped that Melania had the glow of an “expectant widow.” Less than a week later, the FCC’s Media Bureau ordered ABC to reapply for broadcast licenses for its eight owned stations on an accelerated schedule. Trump’s loyalist at the FCC, chairman Brendan Carr, has claimed the ABC review is related to the agency’s probe into Disney’s DEI practices.