Trump Dismisses ‘Total Jerk’ Stephen Colbert as His CBS Show Ends — ‘Like a Dead Person.’ The outgoing president didn’t mince words when asked about the final broadcast of The Late Show, dismissing the host as someone who had become culturally irrelevant long before the credits rolled. For millions of gun owners who endured years of Colbert’s nightly lectures on how AR-15s are murder machines and lawful firearm owners are the real threat to democracy, Trump’s blunt eulogy landed like a satisfying click of a well-oiled bolt. The late-night comedy empire that spent the better part of a decade treating Second Amendment supporters as either idiots or domestic terrorists has finally switched off the lights, and the silence feels unusually refreshing.
Colbert’s departure marks more than the end of one smug monologue writer; it signals a broader exhaustion with the entertainment industry’s reflexive hostility toward constitutional carry, shall-issue permitting, and the fundamental American belief that self-defense is an individual right, not a government privilege. Night after night, viewers watched sketches that painted gun owners as conspiracy-addled hillbillies while conveniently ignoring skyrocketing urban crime rates that drove record firearm sales among women and minorities. The Trump era exposed how these celebrity scolds operate from behind layers of private security yet demand that everyday Americans surrender the very tools that could equalize a deadly encounter. His “dead person” remark, crude as it sounds, perfectly captures the lifeless, scripted nature of Hollywood’s anti-2A sermonizing that lost its audience the moment people started questioning why the same people pushing gun control never seem to protect their own cities.
For the firearms community, this moment represents both vindication and a warning. While one prominent anti-gun voice fades, the institutional machinery in newsrooms, boardrooms, and writers’ rooms remains largely unchanged. The next generation of comedians and commentators is already being groomed to treat lawful gun ownership as an embarrassing relic rather than a cornerstone of ordered liberty. The lesson for gun owners is simple: cultural relevance matters. Every range session, every new shooter introduced to the sport, every well-reasoned conversation at the dinner table chips away at the caricature Colbert spent years reinforcing. The show may be over, but the fight for the narrative around the Second Amendment is only beginning.
