“Hostilities are open.”

The animator Stephen Colbert responded without restrictions on Monday to the US president Donald Trump during his first program from the announcement of the scheduled end of his Late showwarning that “hostilities are open.”

Steven Colbert talked about the cancellation of his program for his employer, who clearly accused of looking for Donald Trump’s favors for commercial reasons. “Go fuck!” He told the president.

The Late ShowAn iconic American television program since its inception in 1993, when it was presented by David Letterman, will cease to be broadcast in May 2026, after a surprise announcement made by the CBS station last week.

The chain is part of the Paramount conglomerate, the objective of an acquisition of mergers of $ 8 billion of the Skydance production company that requires the approval of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (FCC), whose boss is an ally of Donald Trump.

CBS ended his program at the end of the night three days after Stephen Colbert criticized him for having resolved a friendly trial with the president.

The host had accused CBS of having poured what he called a “great bribe” of $ 16 million to Donald Trump in a case in which he reproached a “misleading” edition of an interview with his opponent in the 2024 elections, former vice president Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump was delighted with the dismissal of one of his most prolific detractors, writing on his social social platform: “I love Colbert has been fired.”

The “Washington Epsteins”

The latter joked about the fact that his dream, since its inception as a comic of improvisation in Chicago in the 1980s on Monday, had always been to see an in office celebrating the end of his career.

He also challenged the logic of CBS, who insisted that cancellation was “a purely financial decision.” In an anonymous filtration during the weekend, the channel seemed to suggest that its program had lost $ 40 million last year.

Stephen Colbert joked by saying that he could explain the loss of $ 24 million a year, but that he was not responsible for the remaining $ 16 million, referring to the agreement between CBS News and Mr. Trump.

During his starting monologue on Monday, he made fun of Donald Trump’s request to see the American football franchise for Washington’s commanders resume his old name of Washington Redskins, considered an insult to the America.

A humorous sequence then organized Donald Trump seeking to change the name of the football franchise “Washington Epsteins”, referring to the pedophile financial Jeffrey Epstein, which the president frequented in the 1990s.

After addressing the next final of the “Late Show”, ensuring that we would have killed his program, but not he, Colbert launched a report on the proximity between Trump and Epstein, following in this a family formula: a seemingly serious tone adorned with humor and vivacity.

Outside the Ed Sullivan theater in Manhattan, where the show was recorded, the protesters wielded the signs in which we could read “Colbert Subs! Trump must leave!”

“A curse in CBS”

“It is really horrible that we have arrived there in this country, where companies feel the need to obey in advance,” Elizabeth Kott told AFP, a 48 -year -old teacher.

The main guest on Monday, actress Sandra Oh supported the humorist, visibly moved, launching “a curse on CBS and Paramount.”

It is first of all in Daily ShowUnder the leadership of his friend Jon Stewart, which Stephen Colbert perfected his double comic: a pretentious conservative journalist, cartoon of right -wing commentators.

He then launched his own program in Comedy Central in 2005, where he continued embodying this character, before accessing one of the most coveted publications on American television in 2015: presenter of Late show In CBS.

Colbert left his reactionary alter ego to become one of the most fun and respected figures on the small screen. During the pandemic, it became a reassuring presence for millions of Americans, continuing to transmit from a room from home along with his wife Evelyn.

A fervent criticism of Trumpism has also changed for ten years, he made fun of the president in everything, from his policies to his admiration for Hannibal Lecter.

After recording the program on Monday, Colbert eliminated the promised session of questions and answers and told his audience in the study: “He was nervous upon arriving here.”

“I will miss you,” he concluded.