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Even as late-night comedian and critic Stephen Colbert prepares to end his show this week, President Donald Trump is raging that his administration hasn\u2019t managed to kill even more late-night shows.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrump\u2019s effort to destroy late-night comedians underscores the depths to which he and the modern-day GOP will sink to vindictively pull the levers of state power, and they\u2019ve had some success so far. They haven\u2019t won the war yet,\u201d said Zeteo writer Asawin Suebsaeng. <\/p>\n

Suebsaeng added that sources inside the White House say Trump is furious at the lack of progress.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I]n recent months, according to two sources who have discussed the matter directly with Trump, the president has expressed billowing frustration that his administration is spending too much time threatening to pull federal TV licenses, and not enough time actually \u2018doing it,\u2019 as one of the people specifically recalls Trump saying in a meeting.<\/p>\n

Trump sealed his ongoing determination to exert government control over the media in early 2018, according to a then-senior White House official who met in the Oval Office to meet Trump and other close advisers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis official \u2013 who relayed this anecdote to Zeteo on the condition of anonymity \u2013 had a prescheduled meeting to discuss, among other things, the state of Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s federal investigation, which had become a target of Trump\u2019s ire. But as soon as this official sat down at the Resolute Desk, the president of the United States announced his war against comedians.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrump was brandishing a piece of paper that included copy-and-pasted headlines and social media posts about how Stormy Daniels \u2013 the former pornographic film star whose alleged sexual encounter with Trump would later become central to his criminal conviction in a New York hush money case \u2013 had recently sat for a Jan. 30, 2018 interview on \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This, reports Zeteo, was the same night of Trump\u2019s State of the Union address that year. And he was \u201cdefinitely not happy\u201d according to the source.<\/p>\n

But already, Zeteo reports \u201cthere are signs that sustained, grassroots pressure and resistance to Trump\u2019s agenda and censorship ambitions do, in fact, work \u2013 and can force major institutions to not immediately cave to the White House\u2019s clampdown bluster.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBillionaires, and the right-wing political operatives they own as servants, hate comedy and despise comedy because it\u2019s a great threat to their power,\u201d \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live\u2019 comedian James Adomian told Zeteo. \u201cThey have tried over the past decade to crack down on it, to suppress it, to replace it with their artificial bot-net publicity version of it \u2013 but they\u2019re still not funny and they still lose in comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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