MeidasTouch: JUST IN: CBS's Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low.

[highplainsdem]

Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-12-24T19:59:39.445Z

[Vinca]

1. Did they count the 10 people in the live audience?

[Scrivener7]

2. That's awesome!

[mgardener]

3. Perhaps

This was the plan all along?

[Dave Bowman]

4. Perfect, I hope that he'll get the same low ratings for his funerals.

[W_HAMILTON]

5. #ETTD

[Hey Joe]

6. Trump beshits everything

This is the obvious result and may be by design.

[newdeal2]

7. I expect and demand Kimmel and Colbert tweet something nasty about his low ratings

That will really make my holidays even better.

[usonian]

8. Attendance will skyrocket when ...

It gets a new paint job.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. You mean to tell me that his MAGA faithful DID NOT tune in to give him HUGE ratings?

[kimbutgar]

10. I used to watch it but this year I passed

He has destroyed another great institution.

[moonscape]

11. Really? That many watched?

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Womp womp

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. trump-hosted Kennedy Center honors just did its "smallest audience ever", roughly half of the previous record low