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Trump Takes Pre-Credit if Kimmel and Fallon Get Fired Too

The president isn’t doing CBS any favors by countering its “purely financial decision” excuse.

Donald Trump thinks hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon will be next on the late-night chopping block after Stephen Colbert, and he hopes he “played a major part in it!” Trump claimed in his post to Truth Social Tuesday that “The word is, and it’s a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, [Jimmy] Fallon will be gone.” The hosts of late night, including Fallon, Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, and John Oliver all showed solidarity with Colbert by appearing Monday on Colbert’s first show since breaking the news that The Late Show would end in May. While viewers have questioned whether the motivation behind firing Colbert was political, considering Paramount Global’s itch to close its merger deal with Skydance with federal approval, CBS insisted the decision was “purely financial.” Trump didn’t bother to help the network save face on Tuesday as he gloated about his “part” in the decision and hoped that Kimmel and Fallon meet the same fate. “It’s really good to see them go,” Trump also wrote, taunting the hosts as having “absolutely NO TALENT” and for “destroying what used to be GREAT Television.”