If you’ve been missing your favorite late-night shows, you’re in luck. The writers’ strike is finally over and the comedians are back on the air. You can expect to see new episodes of The Tonight Show, The Late Show, The Daily Show, and more. They’ve been gone for months, so they have a lot of material to catch up on. From politics to pop culture, nothing is off limits for these hilarious hosts.
And they have a favorite subject: Donald Trump.
The former president says he did not miss them, yet he is obviously conflicted about the return of the hosts who make a living out of poking fun at him. In one post he writes: “Now that the ‘strike’ is over, the talentless, low rated CREEPS of Late Night Television are back,” he ranted on his Truth Social website. “I knew there was a reason I didn’t want to see it settled – True LOSERS!!!”
In still another post he called them “poorly rated and not at all funny” and claimed the shows were a “major” campaign contribution to Democrats.
So, if we are to believe these two posts, he did NOT want the strike settled, presumably because he doesn’t want to be the butt of their jokes?
Not that Trump could ever be ignored by comedians. His never-ending antics, rants, raves, and tantrums—complete with new and inventive insults and slurs—are a treasure trove for ridicule.
Trump has long had a beef with the late-night shows for mocking him and has attacked Kimmel, Colbert, Jon Stewart, “Saturday Night Live,” and Alec Baldwin, among others.
Stephen Colbert’s satire, Our Cartoon President, was hilarious.
Earlier this year, Rolling Stone reported that Trump White House officials even made at least two phone calls in 2018 to a top Disney executive demanding that the network take action against Kimmel over his Trump jokes.
In addition, The Daily Beast reported in 2021 that Trump asked the Justice Department to investigate late-night comics who made fun of him. He was so obsessed, the website reported, that he asked his advisors if the Federal Communications Commission or courts could stop the jokes. Perhaps he believes that the First Amendment should serve only to flatter him?
But despite raging that the comedians/hosts are all LOSERS and TALENTLESS, Trump couldn’t help himself from drawing attention to the very thing that he wants to avoid, so being the compulsive attention-seeker and narcissist that we all know him to be, in another post he urges the audience to “Watch what is going on,” he wrote. “So interesting!”
Apparently, he subscribes to the old cliché that bad publicity is better than no publicity and it’s better to be the butt of jokes than to be ignored. You would think that with a trial having just started that could wipe out most of his wealth he would have more important worries than the comics’ Trump jokes.
So let’s all watch the newly-returned late-night comedians and enjoy the laughs.
