“Late Present” host Stephen Colbert and former President Barack Obama are such “finest buds” that they need to “get a motel room,” Republican Sen. John Kennedy (La.) mentioned throughout a weird Fox Information rant about their latest sit-down interview.
Colbert introduced final month that he could be interviewing Obama one final time earlier than the curtains shut for good on his CBS program. Kennedy decried the previous president’s Tuesday look throughout an interview on “The Will Cain Present.”
“I additionally bought a kick out of Mr. Colbert,“ the senator mentioned Wednesday. “He and President Obama are clearly finest buds. Possibly they must get a motel room or one thing. They had been simply fawning throughout one another.”
“I don’t have something in opposition to Mr. Colbert,” Kennedy continued. “I’ve at all times thought that he was shallow as a puddle. Now, he doesn’t imagine that. He thinks he’s one of many smartest individuals on the planet. Don’t take my phrase for it, ask him. His private vainness has at all times been unshakable.”
The senator went on to argue that Colbert’s “drawback” isn’t vainness — however his viewer scores.
“He was dropping CBS $40 million a 12 months as a result of no person was watching, so CBS instructed him to sit down his 50-cent ass down they usually mentioned, ‘You’re fired,’” Kennedy mentioned concerning the late-night present getting canceled, which the community claimed final 12 months was “purely a monetary determination.”
The community introduced the cancellation shortly after Colbert slammed CBS mum or dad firm Paramount International for settling a $16 million lawsuit with Trump whereas awaiting federal approval for an $8 billion merger with Skydance Media. On the time, Colbert referred to the settlement as a “huge fats bribe.”
Whereas his “motel” remark stood out probably the most, Kennedy additionally appeared shocked by the contents of the interview, through which Obama mentioned the state of U.S. democracy underneath Trump and complimented New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“I at all times thought President Obama was a capitalist,” he mentioned.
Kennedy continued, “He actually appears to have an affinity for Mayor Mamdani, and Mayor Mamdani is a socialist. He calls himself a democratic socialist however that’s a socialist that believes in acquiring socialism via the poll field.”
Mamdani’s marketing campaign final 12 months centered on social security nets for New Yorkers, together with free bus rides, inexpensive housing and city-owned grocery shops. He famously defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in a shocking upset — main conservatives to freak out.
The ultimate episode of “The Late Present” is ready to air Might 21 on CBS at 11:35 p.m. ET.