{"id":907610,"date":"2026-05-22T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/why-trump-is-afraid-of-stephen-colbert-jimmy-kimmel-and-the-view\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:17:26","slug":"why-trump-is-afraid-of-stephen-colbert-jimmy-kimmel-and-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/why-trump-is-afraid-of-stephen-colbert-jimmy-kimmel-and-the-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Is Afraid of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and \u201cThe View\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><i>You can watch this episode of <\/i>Right Now With Perry Bacon<i> above or by following this show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL4S1YFDv9yIJZ_fo2PO8ieTl3O7bQm8V4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">YouTube<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.substack.com\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Substack<\/a>. You can read a transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/210658\/transcript-trump-afraid-colbert-kimmel-the-view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/16\/opinion\/stephen-colbert-late-show-cbs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cancellation<\/a> of Stephen Colbert\u2019s program on CBS isn\u2019t the end of entertainment shows with a political bent on network TV. In the latest edition of <i>Right Now<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csusb.edu\/profile\/mconroy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Meredith Conroy,<\/a> a political scientist at California State University, San Bernardino, discusses the post-Colbert television landscape. She emphasizes that ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel remains in his perch, as do the women who host \u201cThe View,\u201d which also airs on ABC. Both programs are <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2026\/05\/donald-trump-the-view-show-abc-news-tv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">very<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/200871\/kimmel-brilliant-anti-trump-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">critical<\/a> of Trump. But Conroy acknowledges the landscape has changed dramatically since Bill Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/campaign-1992\/clinton-appearance-on-arsenio-hall-show\/19384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">played<\/a> the saxophone on the <i>The Arsenio Hall Show<\/i> during the 1992 campaign and forever made late night TV a place for politicians to show their softer sides. She explains the powerful role that Colbert and Jon Stewart played in shaping liberal thought during George W. Bush\u2019s presidency. Their influence seemed to wane during Barack Obama\u2019s presidency. But during Trump\u2019s first term, Colbert, fellow <i>Daily Show<\/i> alum Samantha Bee, Kimmel, Trevor Noah, and Seth Myers combined to deliver nightly humorous denunciations of the president. Stewart returned to late night in 2024 with a sharp and prescient <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/daily-show-return-jon-stewart-skewers-biden-trumps\/story?id=107195705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">critique<\/a> of President Biden\u2019s decision to run for a second term. With Colbert off the air, Kimmel will be an even more important voice, says Conroy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/210798\/trump-afraid-stephen-colbert-jimmy-kimmel-view\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. The cancellation of Stephen Colbert\u2019s program on CBS isn\u2019t the end of entertainment shows with a political bent on network TV. In the latest edition of Right Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":907611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36977,4,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-907610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afraid","8":"category-trump","9":"category-youtube-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}