U.S. President Donald Trump claims he had nothing to do with the cancellation of The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.
In a publish on Reality Social on Tuesday, Trump stated “all people” thinks he was “solely accountable” for the top of the late-night speak present however he stated the rumours are “not true!”
“Everyone is saying that I used to be solely answerable for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, ‘Late Evening,’” Trump wrote. “That isn’t true! The rationale he was fired was a pure lack of TALENT, and the truth that this deficiency was costing CBS $50 Million {Dollars} a 12 months in losses — And it was solely going to get WORSE!”
Trump went on to assert that “a fair much less proficient Jimmy Kimmel” shall be “subsequent up” to lose his job, adopted by “a weak, and really insecure, Jimmy Fallon.”
“The one actual query is, who will go first? Present Biz and Tv is a quite simple enterprise. If you happen to get Scores, you’ll be able to say or do something. If you happen to don’t, you all the time grow to be a sufferer,” Trump wrote. “Colbert grew to become a sufferer to himself, the opposite two will observe.”
A screenshot of Donald Trump’s publish on Reality Social.
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Kimmel responded to Trump’s newest publish by sharing a screenshot of it on Instagram and writing, “I do know you’re busy Sharpie-ing the Epstein information, however this looks like a bizarre method to inform folks to observe Matt Damon and Ken Jennings on an all-new Who Needs to Be a Millionaire tomorrow night time at 8|7c on @ABC.”
Final week, Kimmel fired again at Trump after the president declared Kimmel the “subsequent to go within the untalented Late Evening Sweepstakes,” following the cancellation of The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.
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On July 22, Trump took to Reality Social to criticize Kimmel, claiming he has “completely NO TALENT” and warning that his present, Jimmy Kimmel Stay!, is subsequent on the chopping block.
“The phrase is, and it’s a powerful phrase at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go within the untalented Late Evening Sweepstakes, and shortly thereafter, Fallon shall be gone,” Trump wrote of Kimmel and his fellow late-night host, Fallon.
“These are folks with completely NO TALENT, who have been paid Hundreds of thousands of {Dollars} for, in all instances, destroying what was once GREAT Tv. It’s actually good to see them go, and I hope I performed a significant half in it!”
Kimmel responded by sharing a screenshot of Trump’s publish on Instagram with the caption: “I’m listening to you’re subsequent. Or possibly it’s simply one other great secret” — a reference to a Wall Road Journal report, printed July 17, that claimed Trump had written the phrase to Jeffrey Epstein in a letter for his fiftieth birthday in 2003.
Fallon additionally responded to Trump’s publish final week in the course of the July 21 episode of The Tonight Present.
“I’m your host,” Fallon informed his viewers. “Nicely, a minimum of for tonight.”
“I don’t prefer it. I don’t like what’s happening one bit. These are loopy instances.”
Colbert hasn’t responded to Trump’s newest declare that he wasn’t “solely accountable” for the top of The Late Present with Stephen Colbert however he did share some selection phrases for Trump throughout a gap monologue on the present final week.
The late-night host learn Trump’s publish celebrating the choice to cancel the present on Reality Social on July 18, wherein he wrote, “I completely love that Colbert acquired fired. His expertise was even lower than his scores.”
Colbert stated into the “Eloquence Cam”: “How dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be capable to compose the next satirical witticism? Go f— your self.”
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