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According to preliminary Nielsen data, ‘The Kennedy Center Honors’ on CBS drew its smallest audience ever on the night of December 23, 2025, averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers,” Programming Insider reported on Wednesday. “To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million.”
Normally I might quip, “don’t quit your day job” but in this case I would say, “you were brilliant and everyone loved it and the ratings were rigged! You should definitely quit the presidency to become the permanent host! Please!”
I would guess he finds those poor ratings much more enraging than his approval ratings. It explains his surely mood all weekend better than anything else.