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The Parnas Perspective

Breaking: Trump Effort to Censor Colbert Backfires as Chaos Breaks Out at DHS

The Parnas Perspective

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Daily News, News, News Commentary

5.021.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Parnas reports on breaking news of Trump's effort to censor Colbert backfiring as chaos breaks out at DHS, including a look at the response to Colbert's interview online, what Kristi Noem is being accused of now, and much more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

We have some major developments at this hour.

0:02.8

The effort to silence Stephen Colbert has failed, has failed pretty miserably,

0:08.2

as Stephen Colbert's numbers right now are surging.

0:11.7

If you didn't know, the Trump FCC, the chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr,

0:16.7

who wrote the chapter for the FCC in Project 2025,

0:21.0

try to censor CBS and Colbert telling CBS,

0:25.4

Colbert cannot air a recorded interview with State Representative James Tolarico.

0:30.7

CBS quickly obliged caving to the Trump administration.

0:34.5

Colbert put that up anyway on social media and while the accounts,

0:39.4

they're surging. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security right now is in deep

0:44.4

trouble as there are significant issues emerging between Christy Nome, the secretary, and the Coast Guard

0:50.7

to the point where now today, Trisha McLaughlin, the spokesperson for the Department

0:54.9

of Homeland Security, has decided to resign from her role. Make sure to like, comment, share,

1:00.3

and subscribe. The more you like, the more people see this, and support my work, subscribe to my

1:04.2

sub-stack. Click the link below. Let's jump right into it. This afternoon, Stephen Colbert's show

1:09.7

is surging. View counts on the most

1:12.7

watch Colbert clips on his FCC-censored Tala Rico interview are over a million on every

1:19.2

platform from YouTube to Instagram to TikTok and Twitter. Significant surges across the board for perspective on linear TV, his show

1:31.8

averages 2.3 million viewers. So on most platforms, that's already been surpassed. And well,

1:38.6

those numbers are only going to continue growing. What Trump tried to do is silence Colbert, but it turned into the Streisand

1:46.2

effect, where more people are now tuning into Colbert rather than not. And so you have a situation

1:53.7

where Colbert's ratings online on social media continue to surge as the Trump administration

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