After Donald Trump stated he “completely love[d]” that CBS is ending The Late Present, one other comic reviled by the U.S. president got here to Stephen Colbert’s protection: former discuss present host Rosie O’Donnell.
“Hey, tangerine Trump,” O’Donnell wrote in a be aware she shared on Instagram on Sunday, July 20. “First you stated I needs to be stripped of my citizenship. Now you’re publicly celebrating that Stephen Colbert misplaced his job. You’ve by no means understood the position of comedy — or the position of reality. You suppose silencing a comic means you’ve received one thing. You haven’t. Stephen stood as much as you, like so many people have. Not as a result of it was straightforward — however as a result of it was needed. He instructed the reality with wit and braveness, evening after evening, when you used your platform to unfold concern, lies, and hate.”
The Rosie O’Donnell Present alum stated Trump needs not free speech however blind loyalty. “However America doesn’t work like that,” she added. “We query energy right here. We snort at bullies. And we communicate out — it leaves [you] undone. Stephen shall be high-quality. So will I. So will each artist, journalist, immigrant, trainer, mum or dad, and child who sees by way of you, your determined grasp at relevance, [and your] longing for management. Fact isn’t going anyplace. Neither are we.”
CBS introduced on Thursday, July 17, that it’s going to finish The Late Present franchise subsequent Might, calling the controversial choice “purely a monetary choice in opposition to a difficult backdrop in late evening.”
The timing of that announcement roused suspicions, nonetheless: On air, Colbert had simply criticized mum or dad firm Paramount International’s option to pay Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over 60 Minutes forward of the corporate’s merger with Skydance Media, which might require federal approval.
The next day, Trump cheered Colbert’s exit. “I completely love that Colbert obtained fired. His expertise was even much less [sic] than his rankings,” Trump wrote on Fact Social on Friday, per Selection. “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is subsequent. Has even much less expertise than Colbert!”
Trump additionally stated that Fox Information late-night comic Greg Gutfeld “is best than all of them mixed, together with the moron on NBC who ruined the once-great Tonight Present,” taking a jab at Jimmy Fallon.
O’Donnell has had her rounds with Trump, saying on an Irish discuss present this March that the previous Apprentice star “has it out for [her] and has for 20 years,” ever since she known as him out on The View.
“I discussed his bankruptcies, and I discussed all the sexual assault costs, and I discussed that he was not, the truth is, the businessman that everybody thinks he’s due to the present, The Apprentice, the place they offered a bunch of lies to America for over 10 years, and half of America believed it,” she added in that interview.
O’Donnell instructed TikTok followers this March that she moved to Eire together with her daughter in January and would solely take into account shifting again to america “when it’s protected for all residents to have equal rights there in America.”
Earlier this month, Trump stated on Fact Social that he was “giving critical consideration” to revoking O’Donnell’s citizenship. The comic responded on Instagram, telling him, “I’m not yours to silence. I by no means was.”