The final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired on Thursday, May 21, concluding an 11-year run on CBS. Both the White House and President Donald Trump took to social media to celebrate it, creating a distasteful end to an already shady journey. This clip, which appeared on all of the official White House social media pages, features Trump walking up behind Colbert, physically tossing him into a trash bin, and then dancing to Y.M.C.A.
Per PEOPLE, this highlights the unusual amount of attention the administration is dedicating to late-night personalities, especially when the United States is currently navigating failing peace talks with Iran and juggling the primaries for the midterms. Iran is supposedly such a big deal that the president even skipped his own son’s wedding. What we got instead is this post. On the White House page, the caption reads: “Bye-bye,” accompanied by a hand-waving emoji.
