{"id":496081,"date":"2026-01-06T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496081\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:33:13","slug":"kimmel-slams-trump-for-hosting-lowest-rated-kennedy-center-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496081\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel Slams Trump for Hosting Lowest Rated Kennedy Center Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> returned to late-night on Monday after his winter break, and he used his first monologue of 2026 to tease <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> about the low ratings from the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kennedy-center\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kennedy-center\" data-tag=\"kennedy-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy Center<\/a> Honors broadcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cYou know he hosted an awards show over the break,\u201d Kimmel said at the top of Monday\u2019s \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d broadcast. \u201cAfter boasting about what a great host he is and how much better he is than I am and how huge his ratings would be, Trump hosted the lowest rated Kennedy Center Honors telecast of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Kennedy Center Honors, held on Dec. 7 and hosted by Trump, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/kennedy-center-honors-ratings-plummet-trump-1236620882\/\">averaged 3.01 million viewers<\/a>, according to a report from Nielsen Live + Same Day Panel + Big Data. That represents a 25% decline from 2024\u2019s numbers, which set a record low with 4.1 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBoy, I\u2019d hate to be the White House intern who had to tear that headline out of all the papers and eat \u2019em,\u201d Kimmel added. \u201cYou know, as I recall, he said he\u2019d step down if this happened. He said, \u2018If I can\u2019t beat out Jimmy Kimmel, then I don\u2019t think I should be president.\u2019 Hey, a deal is a deal. Back to Mar-a-Lago you go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTrump was the first sitting president in history to host the Kennedy Center Honors, which celebrate \u201cindividuals whose unique contributions have shaped our world,\u201d according to the organization\u2019s website. The 2025 honorees were George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, KISS, Michael Crawford and Gloria Gaynor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe president has developed a fixation on the Kennedy Center during his second term. In December, he <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/legit\/news\/donald-trump-renaming-kennedy-center-after-himself-1236612001\/\">renamed the historic forum<\/a> \u201cThe Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.\u201d The name change was met with significant uproar, and several scheduled acts <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/acts-cancel-kennedy-center-performances-trump-name-change-1236620075\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">canceled their performances<\/a> in the fallout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night on Monday after his winter break, and he used his first monologue of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[69,171,11171,31760,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-496081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","11":"tag-kennedy-center","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115847233865171700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}