President Trump Is His Own Worst Late-Night Enemy
Kimmel, Colbert and co. beclown themselves while POTUS fuels their fears
President Donald Trump can sound like the fascist Jimmy Kimmel describes him as on social media.
Consider this Trumpian broadside against “The Late Show’s” soon-to-be-ex-host Stephen Colbert earlier this week.
“Stephen Colbert is a pathetic trainwreck, with no talent or anything else necessary for show business success. Now, after being terminated by CBS, but left out to dry, he has actually gotten worse, along with his nonexistent ratings…Stephen is running on hatred and fumes ~ A dead man walking! CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW, it is the humanitarian thing to do!”
The president later added this via Truth Social:
“If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated? I say, YES!”
It’s awful. Indefensible. Unacceptable. Un-American.
And, thankfully, not tethered to reality.
It’s Trump being Trump, bloviating in ways that are inappropriate for any western world leader. And we’ve grown numb to it for two reasons:
- He’s been doing this for nearly a decade…
- He doesn’t act on these speech-controlling impulses
In fact, the opposite is more often the case. The Trump administration just punished five European officials accused of trampling on free speech rights. Trump frenemy Elon Musk has spent billions on X, the social media platform that offers more free speech than some of its peers.
More importantly, the Trump administration hasn’t curtailed speech on social media platforms like his predecessor. There’s no Twitter Files sequel that we know of where Trump officials leaned on X to suppress views.
Those actions matter. They greatly outweigh his social media rants.
That doesn’t mean the latter don’t exist, or that Trump’s critics aren’t feasting on them to buttress their flimsy arguments.
Which brings us to Jimmy Kimmel.
The far-Left propagandist went on British TV yesterday to decry the Trumpian rise of “fascism” in America. It’s more misinformation from the fellow who misled viewers about the person accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk and lied about Antifa’s very existence.
And it egregiously ignores the serial threats to free speech across both parts of Europe and in the UK. Case in point?
UK politics teacher reported to terrorism investigators for showing students Trump videos: ‘Dystopian’ https://t.co/5APUo5f20i pic.twitter.com/KZzjENBuK6
— New York Post (@nypost) December 26, 2025
Kimmel didn’t mention that horrific story or hundreds more of Brits facing jail time for sharing the “wrong” social media posts.
That’s to his shame.
Yet Kimmel is using Trump’s wildly inappropriate posts to support his fraudulent case. Who wouldn’t?
That’s President Trump’s fault.
The late-night narrative, supported by Kimmel and co. along with corrupt media outlets, is that President Trump got Colbert fired and Kimmel suspended.
Both arguments are false. Yet both are supported by the hosts in question and extremely biased news outlets.
Still.
President Trump adds fuel to their nonexistent fire with his social media threats. Here’s betting no one is happier to read them than Kimmel and Colbert.
They know Trump doesn’t mean it, but enough people may think he does. That’s what matters, and it’s why President Trump is doing himself more harm than any late-night monologue could.