{"id":59852,"date":"2026-05-22T23:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59852"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:07:00","slug":"colbert-to-soar-trump-to-crash-and-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59852","title":{"rendered":"Colbert to soar, Trump to crash and burn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We have gotten through comedian Stephen Colbert’s final show on Late Night, for which I stayed up way past my bedtime to watch just how Colbert was going to sign off.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He didn’t disappoint me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

My favorite part was when Sir Paul McCartney walked out after Colbert was rejected by the “the pope.” Sir Paul offered himself to be Colbert’s final celebrity interview.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

OK, I am going to offer only this brief takeaway from last night’s extravaganza. Yes, Colbert got the axe because Donald Trump cannot — in Bruce Springsteen’s words — “can’t take a joke.” Trump put the arm on CBS officials to cut Colbert loose because the comedian wouldn’t stop poking fun at Trump’s feckless, reckless and criminal activity as POTUS.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I am willing to predict — in fact I’ll do so right now — that Stephen Colbert’s star is going to rise into the stratosphere as a result of what happened this week, while Donald Trump will continue his flameout into oblivion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Trump has the audacity to say that Colbert lacks talent, that no one cares about his comedy or his art. I believe saw a graphic demonstration that Colbert’s status as a comic genius and satirist was on full display … while Trump showed us once more that he is little more than a petulant bully.<\/p>\n

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We have gotten through comedian Stephen Colbert’s final show on Late Night, for which I stayed up way past my bedtime to watch just how Colbert was going to sign off. He didn’t disappoint me. My favorite part was when Sir Paul McCartney walked out after Colbert was rejected by the “the pope.” Sir Paul … Continue reading Colbert to soar, Trump to crash and burn<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[765,886,1424,10569,4411],"class_list":["post-59852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-cbs","tag-donald-trump","tag-sir-paul-mccartney","tag-stephen-colbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59854,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852\/revisions\/59854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}