Mike Pesca

I was I was taping before the CBS airs the Kennedy Center, excuse me, the Trump Kennedy Center honors.

Right.

I'm sure we'll hear plenty of jokes.

And in fact, Trump tweeted the following on Tuesday on Festivus Day before Christmas Eve.

The Trump Kennedy Center Honors, this is what he called it, the Trump Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast tonight on CBS and stream on Paramount+.

Tune in at 8 p.m.

Eastern.

At the request of the board and just about everybody else in America, I am hosting the event.

Tell me what you think of my master of ceremony, that's in quotes, abilities.

If really good, would you like me to leave the presidency in order to make hosting a full-time job?

We will be honoring true greats in the history of entertainment, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Crawford, Kiss, George Strait, and Gloria Gaynor.

So is this the soft launch for Trump's resignation strategy from the president?

You didn't get to kick me out.

I left on my own terms.

You know, here's the irony.

Donald Trump as dinner party host, Donald Trump as sort of the roast master, if you will, to take the place during those old Comedy Central roasts.

that's kind of what America wanted out of Donald Trump.

I don't think, I think now it's fair to say most of America, did we really want this guy as president or did we just want this guy to be sort of not even necessarily the MC of the center ring of the three ring circus.

We just kind of wanted to tune into him every once in a while.

Cause he was kind of amusing and he was kind of strange and he was kind of outlandish and sort of all of those things.