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Stephen Colbert added to the late-night pile-on over Donald Trump’s historically low-rated 2025 Kennedy Center Honors. After Jimmy Kimmel got in his licks on Monday, the Late Show host took a few of swipes of his own during Tuesday’s episode of his program.
“Trump’s invasion of Venezuela on Saturday threw off my plans for what I really wanted to talk about this week, which of course is how this year’s Kennedy Center honors drew an all-time low viewership on CBS with host Donald Trump,” Colbert remarked. “Nobody saw that coming… I’m sorry, I read that wrong. Uh, nobody saw that.”
“The president managed to draw only 3 million viewers on CBS,” Colbert went on to note. “Now, it is beneath me to gloat, but if it weren’t beneath me, I’d call him, ‘No talent, low-rated Donald Trump.’
“Then again, maybe we should cut the guy some slack,” Colbert continued. “After all, it was just his first year hosting. As a former Kennedy Center host myself, I know it can take a while to build an audience,” before pointing out that his own turn as host of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015 received three times as many views. “And I didn’t even name the building after myself!” he added.
For its part, the Kennedy Center has dismissed criticism of the 2025 Honors’ ratings, citing “industry and timing disadvantages.” “Comparing this year’s broadcast ratings to prior years is a classic apples-to-oranges comparison and evidence of far-left bias,” Roma Daravi, vice president of public relations for the Kennedy Center, said in a previous statement.
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