By Katherine Tinsley
4:17pm PDT, Jul 25, 2025
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CBS cancelled
The Late Show and fired
Stephen Colbert purportedly for financial reasons, but rumors continue to swirl that the comedian's disapproval of Paramount's legal settlement with
Donald Trump led to the show's demise. FCC chairman
Brendan Carr discussed the assertion during a recent appearance on Fox News'
America's Newsroom.
Keep reading to see what he had to say…
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Bill Hemmer asked Brendan Carr about the cancelation of The Late Show. "Let's just go ahead and get it out of the way," Hemmer said. "Did President Trump have anything to do with the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show?" Replied Carr, "Well, here's what's important to keep in mind, is a broader dynamic. When President Trump ran for election, he ran right at these legacy broadcast media outfits and the New York and Hollywood elites that are behind it, and he smashed the facade that these are gatekeepers that can control what Americans think and what Americans can say."
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Brendan Carr continued to praise Donald Trump's war against what the president often calls "fake news." Said Carr, "Once you do that, you've exposed the business model of a lot of these outfits as being nothing more than a partisan circus. I think there's a lot of consequences that are flowing from President Trump deciding, 'I'm not going to play by the rules of politicians in the past and let these legacy outfits dictate the narratives and the terms of the debate.'"
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While Brendan Carr was passionate in his commentary about the shift in media, Bill Hemmer noted that he failed to answer the question. "I asked a very direct question. I did not hear a yes or a no in your answer. I heard a maybe," Hemmer said. Replied Carr, "Yeah, ultimately these are business decisions for CBS to make and for these outfits to make. I'm, you know, shocked that … they don't find [these things] to be in their profitable business interests."
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Donald Trump sued CBS over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that the president claimed was edited to make the Democratic politician more favorable to voters during the 2024 presidential election. CBS' parent company, Paramount, went on to settle with the president. Once the news broke, Stephen Colbert criticized the media conglomerate on his show, which was canceled days later. The network did not mention the president in their statement announcing the cancelation, but the timeline has prompted plenty of questions about what really went down.
