Lamenting the inconvenient truth that his parent company had joined a slew of other institutions in capitulating to Donald Trump’s capricious demands, Jon Stewart threw out a rallying cry this week after his late-night cohort Stephen Colbert was canceled amid Paramount’s desperate push to complete an $8 billion merger.
“Sack the f*** up,” the Daily Show star exclaimed, calling for media conglomerates to stop running scared and stand up to the president’s legal bullying, which CBS employees have described as a “Trump shakedown.”
