Exclusive Trump Interview Watched by 2.7 Million Viewers on NBC, Additional 1.2 Million Views on YouTube
Ranks #1 in the Key A25-54 Demo Season-to-Date
May 6, 2025 — Meet the Press with Kristen Welker was the #1 Sunday public affairs show across the board, winning total viewers and A25-54 on Sunday, May 4, according to Nielsen. This marks Meet the Press’ largest key demo and total viewer audience since December.
Meet the Press averaged 2.757 million total viewers and surpassed ABC’s This Week by +444,000 (+19%) and CBS’s Face the Nation by +222,000 (+9%). Meet the Press was the only program to post year-over-year and week-over-week growth among total viewers.
Meet the Press averaged 551,000 key A25-54 demo viewers, leading ABC by +148,000 (+37%) and CBS by +132,000 (+32%). Meet the Press was up versus the prior year and prior week.
The Welker-led program also ranks #1 for the current broadcast season among key A25-54 demo viewers. Meet the Press has never lost a month in the Washington, D.C. market among total viewers.
Meet the Press continues to lead in digital viewership for Sunday public affairs programs, with the full interview with President Trump already recording over 1.2 million views on YouTube and clips garnering over 16 million views on TikTok. In addition, viewers consumed hundreds of thousands of hours of content across digital platforms.
Sunday’s broadcast featured an exclusive sit down with President Donald Trump. Throughout the wide-ranging interview, President Trump broke news on more than a dozen topics, including the likelihood of a recession in the U.S., whether he needs to uphold the U.S. Constitution, whether he’s pursuing a third term as president and who he views as potential successors.
Politico wrote that Welker’s exclusive was “a revealing Trump interview,” while Jonathan Swan of The New York Times noted, “the revealing exchange was prompted by Kristen Welker asking Trump if he agreed with his Secretary of State Marco Rubio that everyone in America, citizens and non-citizens, deserved due process. ‘I don’t know,’ Trump replied. ‘I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.’ Welker reminded the president that the Fifth Amendment says as much.”
NATIONAL AVERAGES – MAY 4, 2025
| Show Name | Net | Duration (minutes) | Total Viewers | A25-54 Viewers |
| MEET THE PRESS | NBC | 50 | 2,757 | 551 |
| FACE THE NATION HALF-HOUR | CBS | 30 | 2,535 | 419 |
| FACE THE NATION HOUR | CBS | 60 | 2,226 | 370 |
| THIS WEEK | ABC | 53 | 2,313 | 403 |
| FOX NEWS SUNDAY | FOX | 60 | 945 | 202 |
Meet the Press with Kristen Welker is the premiere destination for original political reporting and interviews with the leaders that shape each week’s headlines. Moderated by Kristen Welker, the veteran NBC News chief White House correspondent and the first journalist of color to moderate a Sunday public affairs program, Meet the Press has set the political agenda and highlighted the everyday impact of Washington decision-making on viewers all over the country for more than 75 years. It reaches millions of viewers every Sunday and millions more through social, digital and on-demand platforms. Meet the Press also brings its signature analysis and newsmaker interviews to streaming audiences with Meet the Press NOW at 4 p.m. on weekdays on NBC News NOW. Kristen Welker is the 13th moderator of Meet the Press, Carrie Budoff Brown is NBC News senior vice president for politics, and David Gelles is executive producer. Melissa Frankel is executive producer of Meet the Press NOW.
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