Stephen Colbert encouraged Americans to “stay strong” after his win at the 2025 Emmys.

The late-night host was told earlier this year that his run behind “The Late Show” desk would come to an end in 2026. Though the network stressed the move was purely a financial decision, many commentators believed that Colbert was being targeted for his regular critiques of President Donald Trump.

Speaking on the same network that gave him his slow-moving pink slip, Colbert took another shot at Trump. His ambiguous acceptance speech pulled double-duty as a eulogy for his show and a statement about living through Trump’s second term.

“Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it,” he said. “Ten years later, in September of 2025, my friends,

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