“Art enthusiasts and the far right aren’t a big middle of a Venn diagram.”

President Donald Trump has been within the information rather a lot this month for his unsavory conduct.

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Between his abhorrent response to Rob and Michele Reiner’s murder, the rambling plaques added to the White House’s Presidential Walk of Fame, and the continued launch of the Epstein recordsdata, the President isn’t precisely at his hottest. This was confirmed by the truth that his Kennedy Center Honors ceremony obtained the present’s lowest viewers ever.

Soon after Trump’s second time period started, he took over the Kennedy Center. He cleaned home, changed the board of trustees along with his personal loyalists, and added his title to the constructing. Co-opting an assassinated president’s largest memorial is a transfer that may have sounded insane a number of years in the past, however it’s par for the course for Trump.

Trump-Kennedy Center’s first flop

Many individuals have been vocally in opposition to Trump’s Kennedy Center takeover. In truth, he was booed throughout a Les Mis efficiency over the summer time. However, that’s not sufficient to decelerate historical past’s most notorious narraccist.

This week, Trump hosted the forty eighth Annual Kennedy Center Honors. He beforehand claimed that individuals have been begging him to do it, however solely half of final yr’s viewers tuned in.

“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. To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million,” Programming Insider posted on Twitter.

People react to Trump’s failed Kennedy Honors

Trump has spent a lot of his presidency boasting about rankings, which is to be anticipated once you elect a actuality TV host. Naturally, the Internet isn’t holding again in terms of his poor Kennedy Honors rankings.

Classic braggart conduct…

Even followers of the honorees didn’t tune in.

Disgraceful.

“People aren’t into authoritarian cosplay hijacking their TV at Christmas” goes arduous.

“Senile Satan” goes tougher.

Same.

“Everything Trump touches dies…”

Points have been made.

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