De Niro, Springsteen take swipes at Trump on Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ finale week
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More than a dozen celebrities made shock appearances on Stephen Colbert‘s second-to-last “Late Show” episode Wednesday evening, with two of them taking swipes at President Donald Trump.
Vocal Trump criticizes Robert DeNirowho got here on the present to ask a query as a part of the “Colbert Questionert” requested the host, “What number were you thinking of?” which was a regular query Cobert requested company throughout the questionnaire.
De Niro joked, “OK. Cause I thought it would’ve been two million point five, or two and a half million. That’s the number of Epstein files Trump still hasn’t released.”
Bruce Springsteen, who additionally continuously speaks out towards the president, closed the present along with his new protest music “Streets of Minneapolis.”
“I am here tonight in support for Stephen because you’re the first guy in America who’s lost his show because we’ve got a president who can’t take a joke,” the “Born in the USA” singer informed the viewers.
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Split of Trump, Bruce Springsteen and Robert De Niro (Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images; Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images; Samir Hussein/WireImage)
He additionally took a swipe at Paramount, which some consider determined to cancel Colbert’s present over politics rather than the stated financial reasons.
“Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his a– to get what they want,” The Boss added. “Stephen, these are small-minded people … they got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about.”
The White House hit again on Thursday, with a spokesperson telling Fox News Digital: “Stephen Colbert is a pathetic trainwreck with no talent and terrible ratings, which is exactly why CBS canceled his show and is booting him off the airwaves.”
Unsurprisingly, reactions on social media to De Niro and Springsteen cut up alongside ideological traces.
“This is an absolute mic drop proper there for the Late Show, and god, it is arduous to consider that all of this will end tomorrow,” one individual wrote in a YouTube remark of Springsteen, whereas one other agreed: “Mad respect to the Boss, a much better man than the one sitting in the oval office.”
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One YouTube person wrote of De Niro: “So thrilled that Robert DeNiro Showed up, a living legend.”
On the opposite aspect, one X person wrote that it was “all so embarrassing. Springsteen actually has an IQ of 80, at finest. Colbert hasn’t ever been funnysomeway forgetting his job was to be a comic, not participating in bizarre, leftist, cringe-inducing partisan nonsense that most individuals don’t desire something to do with. “Should have been fired years in the past.”
Bruce Springsteen and Robert De Niro were among more than a dozen celebrities who showed up for Colbert’s second-to-last show, including, Amy Sedaris, John Dickerson, James Taylor, Billy Crystal, Jeff Daniels, Weird Al Yankovic, Josh Brolin, Tiffany Haddish, Martha Stewart, Aubrey Plaza, Jim Gaffigan, Ben Stiller, Mark Hamill and Evie Colbert on Wednesday. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS/Getty Images)
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Another X user called Springsteen a “washed up musician,” claiming that Colbert lost his show because “no person was watching, revenues had been tanking, and he was merely un-funny.”
“Stephen Colbert is a pathetic trainwreck with no talent and terrible ratings, which is exactly why CBS canceled his show and is booting him off the airwaves.”
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In April, Trump called the “Thunder Road” singer “Bad, and really boring,” claiming he looks like a “dried up prune who has suffered significantly from the work of a extremely dangerous plastic surgeon, has lengthy had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, typically known as TDS.”
Stephen Colbert with Robert De Niro on “The Late Show” on Wednesday. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)
He added that “MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to reps for De Niro and Springsteen for comment.
Billy Crystal, Mark Hamill, Martha Stewart, Josh Brolin, Jim Gaffigan, Jeff Daniels, Tiffany Haddish, Amy Sedaris, Ben Stiller, Aubrey Plaza, James Taylor, Weird Al Yankovic, James Taylor, John Dickerson and Colbert’s spouse Evie McGee Colbert additionally appeared on the present Wednesday.
