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Bruce Springsteen made a fewer jabs astatine Donald Trump and David and Larry Ellison earlier he performed connected Stephen Colbert‘s second-to-last The Late Show on CBS.
“I’m present successful support coming for Stephen, because you’re nan first feline successful America who has mislaid his show because we sewage a president who can’t return a joke,” Springsteen said.
He went on, “And because Larry and David Ellison consciousness they request to buss his ass to get what they want. Anyway, Stephen, these are small-minded people. They sewage nary thought what nan freedoms of this beautiful state are expected to beryllium about.”
Springsteen past performed Streets of Minneapolis, which he introduced successful nan aftermath of nan ICE raids successful Minnesota, successful which national agents changeable and killed 2 protesters, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
CBS announced past summertime that Colbert’s show was being canceled, citing financial reasons. But nan axing of nan show, nan apical precocious nighttime broadcast talk show, came conscionable earlier Paramount secured FCC support of its waste to nan Ellisons’ Skydance. Colbert besides had criticized pre-sale Paramount’s determination to settee Trump’s suit against CBS for $16 million, calling it a “big fat bribe.”
On Wednesday, Trump was asked astir Colbert’s last show and told reporters, “I’ll person a connection connected a later date.”
