Stephen Colbert Jokes CBS's $16M Trump Settlement Was a Bargain in Jab at Bosses: Peace Has a Price!'
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Stephen Colbert Jokes CBS's $16M Trump Settlement Was a Bargain in Jab at Bosses: Peace Has a Price!'
"Trump's next mission in Davos was debuting a new international club that he calls the Board of Peace, where nations can pay $1 billion for a permanent seat. No surprise that peace has a price. Right now, it's unclear where the funds collected from the Board of Peace members would be held. My guess is Trump's personal piggy bank, the Canklebankle. According to the charter, the board will have one man in charge, he continued. And I'll give you a hint. He's in the diaper."
"Now, admittedly, the idea of paying a billion dollars to obey Donald Trump seems a little steep, after all, CBS got to do it for just $16 million, Colbert cracked to laughter from the audience. Colbert didn't need to spell out the reference to his audience, but in July, CBS's parent company, Paramount, paid out the hefty settlement over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris."
Stephen Colbert mocked President Donald Trump's newly launched Board of Peace, joking that nations can pay $1 billion for permanent seats and questioning where the funds would be held. Colbert quipped that the money might go into "Trump's personal piggy bank, the Canklebankle," and ridiculed the board's single-leader structure with a diaper gag. The host then targeted CBS executives by referencing Paramount's $16 million settlement over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. The settlement preceded CBS canceling The Late Show on July 18 for financial reasons and the FCC approving the Paramount-Skydance merger on July 24.
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