Colbert followed “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart’s attack of the deal one week earlier. Stewart works for Comedy Central, also owned by Paramount, making the two comics the most visible internal critics of the $16 million settlement that was announced on July 1.

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart slammed Paramount for making a deal with Trump, serving notice they won't be silenced by their parent company.

With a $16 million settlement, the media company just struck a deal with Trump that showed how easily the First Amendment can be bartered away.

Paramount agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris. Trump alleged the interview was edited to improve how Harris sounded, a claim CBS denied.

The bill, the Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act, comes after Donald Trump ‘s settlements with Paramount Global and Disney to settle his lawsuits, each for $16 million. The lion’s share of the money from those settlement was directed to the president’s future library.

The high-stakes deal that came together this week resulted from months of back-and-forth among a constellation of power players with competing interests, including the president, the Larry Ellison family and mogul Shari Redstone.