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President Donald Trump gleefully announced on Tuesday that Paramount had paid its $16 million settlement—while confirming that he expected millions more in a side deal. “BREAKING NEWS! We have just achieved a BIG AND IMPORTANT WIN in our Historic Lawsuit against 60 Minutes,
President Trump has said that he anticipates receiving at least $20 million in advertising, public service announcements or similar programming from incoming Paramount Global owner Skydance as part of a settlement to resolve a lawsuit that 60 Minutes conducted with Kamala Harris.
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden also question whether Skydance was involved in discussions to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is wading into the backlash surrounding The Late Show’s cancellation with nasty insults. Carr took to X Tuesday morning to mock the “partisan left,
Trump again celebrated the canceling of Colbert’s show on Tuesday, hinting that he may have had something to do with it. He also took aim at ABC host Jimmy Kimmel and NBC’s “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon.
Kicking off Monday’s show with a joke about Trump wanting to change the name of the Washington Commanders NFL team (the “Washington Epsteins”, Colbert suggested), he walked into the Ed Sullivan theater to loud cheers and said “This is going to be fun”. It certainly was.