A message condemning Donald Trump and CBS was chalked on the street outside the Ed Sullivan Theater ahead of the final episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Thursday.
Footage shared on X by CBC News reporter Steve Futterman showed the message written in bright chalk outside the New York venue where the show was taped.
“Thank you Stephen,” was scrawled in yellow, alongside a heart.
Beneath it, in white, read: “And fuck you CBS and Donald Trump.”
It’s unclear who was behind the protest.
Some fans of the show were also pictured holding anti-Trump and pro-Colbert signs outside the theater.
The message and the signs reflected the anger over CBS’s decision, first announced last year, to nix the show, which the network said was for “financial” reasons.
Critics, however, suggested the cancellation of Trump critic Colbert was to appease the White House in order to gain Federal Communications Commission approval for parent company Paramount’s merger with Skydance, which has since gone ahead.
