Trump became the first president to host the awards that aired Tuesday night after he boasted that the venue’s board and “just about everybody else in America” had requested he take center stage.
But according to preliminary Nielsen data, the televised awards show on CBS “drew its smallest ever audience on December 23, averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers,” Programming Insider reports. “To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million,” the media ratings website noted.
Trump’s opening remarks from the event that happened on December 7, which lasted 12 minutes, were cut by CBS to two minutes for viewers watching at home, according to The Washington Post. [emphasis added]
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He reminisced about how he and the POTUS were hanging out at the White House eating Mexican food when Trump asked if he wanted to see his "big, beautiful ballroom."
The MAGA minion Fox personality told the conservative crowd:
"I said, ‘Sure, let me see it.' He rolls the whole thing out. And guys, I don't know if you know this—the ballroom is huge. Like, I said, ‘Mr. President, the ballroom is four times the size of the White House.'"
Watters continued:
"He said, ‘Jesse, it's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself—because no one else will.'"
When a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu strain of avian influenza (H5N1) began sweeping across wild birds and poultry in 2020, it already looked concerning. Five years on, the picture has grown darker and stranger than most would have imagined.
The virus has infected hundreds of millions of farm animals, spilled into mammals at an unprecedented scale, devastated wildlife, and – in the United States – established itself in dairy cattle, a species no one expected to see implicated.
Human cases remain rare. But virologists say the trajectory is troubling, the data patchy and the future uncertain.
“It’s now a global problem,” says Dr Ed Hutchinson, professor of molecular and cellular virology at the University of Glasgow. “As a disease of wild animals, it’s completely out of control. It’s raging around the world, and there’s no feasible containment method other than just watching it infect huge populations of animals.”
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