Predictable: Trump Brags About TV Ratings for SOTU (And He’s Wrong)
We all knew this was coming, right?
President Donald Trump has enjoyed fairly positive press for his State of the Union speech Tuesday evening — a few items that needed fact-checking but lots of red meat for his base and even some genuinely emotionally powerful moments — but that’s not enough.
It’s not enough that even the media he denounces as “Fake News!” praised his speech. It’s not enough that the Democrats’ attempts to respond looked foolish, irrelevant, or just plain spiteful.
Nope. Our Reality TV President also has to be number one in the television ratings.
And here’s the tweet we’ve all been expecting since the speech ended on Tuesday:
Thank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech. 45.6 million people watched, the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in. Delivered from the heart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 1, 2018
Now, 45.6 million is a lot of people. But it’s not the “highest number in history.”
According to past records of the Nielsen ratings, President Barack Obama beat Trump’s ratings for a State of the Union twice. Obama had 52.4 million viewers for his 2009 State of the Union and just over 48 million viewers in 2010.
President George W. Bush beat Trump several times too, in 2002 (51.8 million) and 2003 (62.1 million), as well as a virtual tie in 2007.
President Bill Clinton also bested Trump’s numbers in 1998, with 53.1 million viewers.
Tuesday wasn’t even the highest ratings for a Trump address to a joint session of Congress. Nielsen reported that 47.7 million people watched him last year in his first address on February 28, 2017.
Credit to Joe Cunningham who predicted Trump’s tweet in his analysis of the speech — almost perfectly:
This is the guy who should be president. Not the man who is going to go on Twitter tomorrow morning and post about how the ratings for his State Of The Union speech make it the most-watched State Of The Union speech ever. And, yeah, you know that’s coming.
Off by just 24 hours. Not bad, Joe. Not bad at all.
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Source: https://www.redstate.com/sarah-rumpf/2018/02/01/predictable-trump-brags-tv-ratings-sotu-hes-wrong/
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