The Late show with Stephen Colbert broadcast its last show and ofc the President had a moronic things to shitpost about it — so let’s talk…

There’s something deeply revealing about the way authoritarians talk about comedians.

Not just that they dislike them. Not just that they mock them. But that they become personally obsessed with them.

Donald Trump spent years attacking Stephen Colbert — a late night host, comedian, and satirist — with the kind of fixation most presidents reserve for geopolitical rivals. And now, after the announcement that The Late Show is ending, Trump is publicly celebrating as though he just defeated a political enemy in battle.

Except Stephen — the “failure” he’s mocking has:

• 127 award nominations

• 34 major wins

• 11 Emmy Awards

• 2 Grammy Awards

• 5 Peabody Awards

Last time I checked, that’s not the resume of a “talentless hack.” That is one of the most decorated careers in modern political satire. I’d give my first born for just ONE of those awards.

And that’s the point.

Because authoritarian personalities do not measure success the way healthy democracies do.

They don’t care about artistic achievement. They don’t care about critical acclaim. They don’t care about cultural contribution.

They care about DOMINANCE.

If someone makes them look weak, ridiculous, insecure, petty, or foolish — that person becomes intolerable. So, they (the authoritarian) obsess.

Comedy has always been dangerous to insecure power structures because humor punctures myth making. It torpedoes lies. It pulls back the curtain or the “strong man” and reveals a treasure trove of weakness.

Satire strips away the performance. It forces audiences to see the insecurity underneath the strongman costume.

And Stephen Colbert was extraordinarily good at that.

Stephen understood the central absurdity of Trumpism:

that so much of it depends on demanding reverence while behaving like an internet troll with nuclear codes.

It’s a contradiction that is impossible for comedians to ignore.

The irony is that Trump’s attack accidentally reinforces Colbert’s cultural significance. It’s the Streisand Effect at the highest level.

Nobody spends years raging at someone “irrelevant.” Nobody obsessively posts about a man with “no ratings” and “no talent” unless that person got under their skin in a meaningful way. And for a comedian or satirist, that is the highest honor of recognition.

Satire always lingers.

Comedy interrupts process.

We MUST remember this:

A good satirist or comedian can cut through ten paragraphs of political analysis with one sentence people remember for years.

And that, my dear citizens is power. Real power.

Which is precisely why fascist regimes like the Trump admin hate it so much.