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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrump-hosted Kennedy Center honors just did its "smallest audience ever", roughly half of the previous record low

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trump-hosted Kennedy Center honors just did its "smallest audience ever", roughly half of the previous record low (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Dec 2025
OP
I hope CBS is beginning to get a hint of the backlash they're going to get.
marble falls
Dec 2025
#3
"And the award for inducing a veritable epidemic of projectile vomiting goes to ..."
struggle4progress
Dec 2025
#8
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,451 posts)1. A COMPLETE UNMITIGATED DISASTER -- Smallest audience ever:
tanyev
(49,225 posts)2. Trump: "Everybody told me they've never seen such ratings!"
Predicted Trump quote.
marble falls
(71,855 posts)3. I hope CBS is beginning to get a hint of the backlash they're going to get.
jmbar2
(7,970 posts)4. WTF? 2.4 MILLION people watched it?
Who are these people? Maybe it was playing in the community rooms at nursing homes?
Brother Buzz
(39,871 posts)5. I suspect a boatload tuned in to watch the train wreck
meadowlander
(5,128 posts)6. Plus all the podcasters and other new media hate watching it for content.
mcar
(45,977 posts)7. This long-time viewer didn't watch
I love the Kennedy Center and the Honors. I will never forgive them for destroying this wonderful place.
Jack Valentino
(4,955 posts)12. it WILL be fixed, within a time.... and his name-stain removed!
struggle4progress
(126,097 posts)8. "And the award for inducing a veritable epidemic of projectile vomiting goes to ..."
maxrandb
(17,415 posts)9. The ratings were down 500. 600, even 700%
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
Buns_of_Fire
(19,145 posts)10. Shoulda booked Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. nt
Jack Valentino
(4,955 posts)11. Guess he won't be resigning for the overwhelming applause... TOO BAD !
SHOULD I QUIT TO BE A FULL-TIME M.C.?!?
https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/23/donald-trump-asks-leave-white-house-host-kennedy-center-honors/
Pfffffffffft! He raised the bar too high with that one!