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of President Donald Trump Receives Kennedy Center Honors According to a report, the show’s ratings for the annual event tanked with 35 percent less viewers than last year.
Trump became the first president He claimed to have been requested by the venue’s board and “everyone else in America” to host the awards broadcast on Tuesday night. He is center stage.
But according to preliminary Nielsen data, the televised awards show on CBS “attracted its lowest audience ever on December 23, averaging 2.65 million viewers,” Programming Insider reportsThe media ratings website said, “To put it in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4,1 million,”
Trump’s opening remarks at the December 7 event, which lasted 12 minutes, were cut down to two minutes by CBS for viewers watching at home. Washington Post.
The president promoted the event on Truth Social on Tuesday morning and billed it as “Trump Kennedy Center Honors,” after a board voted last week to rename the iconic Washington Memorial and Performing Arts Center after Trump.
CBS News leadership reportedly instructed staff to refer to the program’s original name, not “Trump Kennedy Center Honors”.
In an email to employees received by PostCBS leadership stated that the network would continue to refer to the event and the building as the “Kennedy Center” because the change would require congressional approval.
“If the President or other administration officials use the new name in the soundbite, that is their prerogative,” the email reportedly said.
Another note to staff reportedly read: “We should not call it the Trump Kennedy Center, or the Trump Kennedy Center Honors, unless quoting from people who don’t realize the official name change only comes from Congress.”
According to critics, the decision to rename the venue, which was voted on by a Trump-elected board, was not legal.
“Under current law, I think there is very little question that the Kennedy Center board cannot rename the opera house after Melania Trump or anyone else and would require congressional permission to do anything like that,” said David Super, a Georgetown law professor. told Post Earlier this year, Congress was considering renaming the center for the President or First Lady. “…That law is very clear, and I really can’t find any loophole in it.”
Kennedy’s relatives sharply criticized the decision to rename the center.
Maria Shriver, Kennedy’s niece, wrote X that the decision left him “speechless, angry and in a state of disbelief.”
Jack Schlossberg, grandson of the late president, claimed that the decision to rename the center was inspired by his campaign for Congress in New York.
“Our campaign represents everything Trump cannot afford or defeat,” Schlossberg wrote On X.