Trump takes victory lap over CBS axing Colbert and calls out ‘moron’ Fallon, too - CBS has claimed that the cancellation of Trump-bashing was a ‘financial decision’ despite timing of merger

Inside the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York, Stephen Colbert was trying to make sense of that cataclysmic outcome in real time, both for himself and for the millions of viewers who had come to view him as an indispensable voice of comic insight and illumination.