Trump boasts of having liquidated Colbert in an AI video and contradicts CBS
The network has always maintained that the cancellation of the program was strictly for economic reasons
BarcelonaThe President of the United States, Donald Trump, has once again blurred the line between reality and fiction by publishing a video on X created with artificial intelligence in which he appears to throw comedian Stephen Colbert into a dumpster and then start dancing. The White House has re-published this montage, which disregards any sense of institutional restraint seen until now in a leader of this caliber. Furthermore, the message puts the CBS network in an uncomfortable situation, which has always maintained that the decision to cancel its program was solely due to economic reasons.
According to the company, each season of Late show with Stephen Colbert generated 40 million dollars in losses. However, numerous voices believe that the media group has forced the closure of the program to satisfy the Ellis family, owners of the conglomerate, who are becoming one of the president's main allies in the media sector. Proof of this is the abrupt editorial shift made by the news channel CBS News since Bari Weiss was appointed director, a renowned antiwoke with no prior television experience.
On social media, the video has generated the classic polarization between those who applaud the cancellation because they believe Colbert was only humorously lashing out at the MAGA movement and those who denounce the trampling of freedom of expression. Some users have taken advantage of Grok's video creation service, X's AI tool, to make their own versions in which it is Trump who ends up in the dumpster.
This is not the first time the American president has used artificial intelligence to humiliate those he perceives as political enemies, with a particular weakness for progressive media. Months ago, he published a video in which he appeared in a wrestling ring, repeatedly hitting a fighter whose face was replaced by the CNN channel logo. This channel belongs to the Warner empire, which is precisely in the process of purchasing the Ellis family's empire.
