Donald Trump delivered an odd Christmas message, persevering with his streak of crass messages aimed toward anybody he perceives as his enemy. The President took to Truth Social to want a Merry Christmas to the unconventional left” scum and attempting to break the United States.

“Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly,” Donald Trump fumed.

He additionally unleashed a blistering assault on Stephen Colbert early Wednesday, demanding CBS cancel The Late Show lengthy earlier than its scheduled finish in 2026, calling the host a “pathetic trainwreck” and accusing him of working on “hatred and fumes.”

In a fiery publish on Truth Social, the previous president didn’t maintain again.

“Stephen Colbert is a pathetic trainwreck, with no talent or anything else necessary for show business success,” Trump wrote. “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!”

Trump’s publish got here simply hours after CBS aired a rerun of The Late Show from December 8, wherein Colbert mocked Trump’s current look on the Kennedy Center Honors and poked enjoyable at him for receiving the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.

Colbert joked that Trump had been chasing the Nobel Peace Prize “for years” and referred to as the FIFA award “fake.”

Minutes after his preliminary publish, Trump adopted up with one other jab on the whole late-night panorama, writing, “Who has the worst Late Night host, CBS, ABC, or NBC??? They all have three things in common: High Salaries, No Talent, REALLY LOW RATINGS!”

Trump additionally renewed his long-standing push for the federal authorities to revoke broadcast licenses from networks he claims are biased towards him.

He argued that these licenses are “very valuable” and needs to be pulled from retailers which might be “almost 100% negative” towards him and his political allies.

CBS introduced in July that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert would conclude in May 2026. The community has maintained that the choice was pushed by monetary concerns, not political stress or content-related issues.

According to Variety, Colbert’s December 8 monologue additionally included a number of digs at Trump’s ongoing authorized troubles and his failed makes an attempt to safe worldwide accolades.

The episode that aired Tuesday night time was a repeat, however Trump’s response suggests the content material nonetheless struck a nerve.

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