KENNEDY Center for Performing Arts , D.C. -- 16 days later was a Tuesday night re-broadcast - Trump play-acted as a Johnny Carson wannabe

Official data from NIELSEN rating observations / audience size

and comparison to number of live TV share of audience

with TVs on that night of the CBS Broadcast for

the 2025 KENNEDY CENTER HONORS (Kiss,

Strait, Stallone, Gaynor, Crawford "class" of honorees).

Down 25 - 35% from 2024 TV

rating statistics . . .

SUNDAY Dec. 7, 2025 -- evening highlights include 

GARTH BROOKS wearing six-inch platform shoes,

Kelsey Grammer extolling the virtues of

Michael Crawford

and Kurt Russell extolling

Sylvester Stallone . . .

those singing a tribute song were

Miranda Lambert / Brooks & Dunn

-- sang "Amarillo by Morning"

for songwriter-singer George Strait

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Deniece Williams honored Gloria

Gaynor, DISCO's 'First Lady"

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Cheap Trick honored the KISS

band members present (Paul Stanley

& Gene Simmons)

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Johnny Carson was a late

20th Century Media "Star" / entertainer

Another NBC star of a longstanding

series -- The TONIGHT Show

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Instead of giving his honorees the

benefit / insider privilege of sitting

with him and FLOTUS in the President's

box, Trump 2.0 acted as a "Johnny Carson-like"

 Emcee - Host

of the

Kennedy Center Honors

2025

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33 years ago, Johnny

Carson retired after a

generational

term of being the late night talk

show weekday

host for NBC at Burbank,

CA from 1962 - 1992. In 2005

Carson died at age 79, 3 mos.

in Los Angeles of emphysema.