NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump has stunned American TV viewers by appearing in his own tonight show immediately following the last episode of The Late Show staring comedian Stephen Colbert which he was instrumental in having taken off air.

As soon as Mr Colbert said his final goodnight to his audience in the CBS TV network’s famed Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York, the opening credits rolled on the surprise replacement program, The Big Beautiful Late Show starring Donald Trump. (main picture)

The new show was broadcast live from a new fully equipped television studio that has been secretly constructed at the White House in Washington DC.

Mr Colbert’s show was axed (below) soon after a supporter of the President’s right-wing agenda bought the CBS network.

Mr Trump’s new show, which he told viewers he would host “seven nights a week, not just five” is structured on traditional tonight show lines.

The first episode began with the host’s opening monologue focussing on current events in the US and abroad.

In it Mr Trump disclosed that it had been necessary “for security reasons” to build the new US$1 billion studio, which he named as the Donald J Trump Theatre.

“This studio has been built in addition to my new big beautiful ballroom here at what I call, and which will soon be known officially as the Donald J Trump Gold House,” he revealed.

“But don’t worry,” he said to viewers. “The $2 billion bill for the studio and the ballroom is being paid by friends of mine – that’s you, the taxpayers.”

Mr Trump promised a star-studded line-up of guests on the first episode of The Big Beautiful Late Show including the US First Lady Melania Trump who will promote her movie Melania, as well as appearances and light-hearted interviews with his “good buddies and great guys” – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.

TV analysts stateside told me that they were yet to pass judgement on the President’s new show and his talents as a late night TV host.

“It’s difficult to do that until the first episode of his new show is over,” one confided to me in a phone call from Washington at 3.30am DC time.

“He’s been on air for almost five hours so far and he still hasn’t come to the end of his monologue.”

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