The Kennedy Center is defending this year’s Kennedy Center Honors after the Donald Trump hosted telecast delivered all-time low viewership for CBS. The Dec. 23 telecast averaged 3.01 million viewers ...

Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night on Monday after his winter break, and he used his first monologue of 2026 to tease Donald Trump about the low ratings from the Kennedy Center Honors broadcast. "You ...

Jimmy Kimmel hit back on his show after President Donald Trump took multiple swipes at him ahead of hosting the Kennedy Center Honors.

The official ratings for the 48th Annual Kennedy Center Honors are in, and the Dec. 23 telecast averaged 3.01 million viewers on CBS, according to Nielsen Live + Same Day Panel + Big Data. That is an ...

Jimmy Kimmel‘s feud with President Trump continues. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host kicked off his first broadcast of 2026 pointing out that Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to host the 48th ...

Jimmy Kimmel slapped back at Donald Trump’s hosting brags last night, updating his late night audience on the president’s ...

Despite Donald Trump‘s prediction that this year’s Kennedy Center Honors would be “the highest-rated show that they’ve ever done,” the 2025 ceremony hit a record low, losing over one million viewers ...

The Trump–Kennedy Center defended its Honors award show ratings in 2025 as performing strongly despite industry-wide headwinds and a dramatically different scheduling landscape.

Trump personally oversaw the honors, including replacing the iconic medallions, trimmed with a rainbow ribbon for 47 years, with a solid blue one. He chose the honorees instead of a selection process ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The official ratings for the 48th Annual Kennedy Center Honors are in, and the Dec. 23 telecast averaged 3.01 million viewers on ...