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It’s no secret that numbers and popularity mean everything to Donald Trump, so when he decided to hold his presidential inauguration indoors because of “cold weather,” many knew it was really because the small size of his MAGA crowd in attendance would be horrible optics and further damage his already ridiculously inflated ego.
With that being said, the number of viewers who tuned in to watch Donald Trump be sworn in to be the president of the United States (without ever putting his hand on the Bible we might add), turned out to be as struggle as expected. Less than half of the 77 million people who voted for him watched the ceremony.
According to Deadline, the numbers are in and a grand total of 24.59 million viewers cut on Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony this past Monday (Jan. 20) across the 15 networks that were covering the event. With millions of people vowing to ignore the swearing in of a potential dictator, everyone expected the inauguration to have paltry viewing numbers, but we couldn’t have guessed it would’ve been this low.
Naturally, Fox News got the lions share of views as far-right Americans naturally gravitate towards the Trump- loving “news” network with 10.67 million viewers. It was followed by ABC News with 4.85 million, NBC News with 4.58 million, CBS News with 4.35 million, CNN with 1.80 million and MSNBC with 880,000. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News drew 2.09 million, followed by NBC News with 1.22 million, ABC News with 1.12 million, CBS News with 966,000, CNN with 563,000 and MSNBC with 106,000.
We’re low-key surprised MSNBC had that many viewers tune in. Just sayin’.
While the news networks covered the event throughout the day, most of the ratings came during the moment that Cheeto Jesus once again assumed power.
Per Deadline:
Viewership peaked in the 12:15 quarter hour, as Trump was giving his inaugural address.
According to Nielsen, 17.4 million viewers were aged 55 and above, 4.67 million were 35-54 and 1.43 million were 18-34.
During the Trump swearing-in ceremony and inaugural address, about 27.12 million viewers tuned in during the noon-12:45 p.m. ET time frame across the three major cable news networks and the three major broadcast networks, according to early data.
Nearly 40 million watched Biden’s swearing in and inaugural address four years ago on those six networks. In 2017, about 38.3 million watched Trump’s first inauguration.
It might be only a matter of time before Trump calls these fake numbers and declares it the most viewed inauguration of the last 100 years or something. Y’all know it’s coming.
While this may be a nice little thing to troll Trump about going forward, it’s not going to stop all the damage the man is poised to inflict on American society and its principals. The executive orders he’s signed in his first few days that take a hatchet to any program designed to help or assist Black and Brown people is evidence that these next four years (and beyond) are going to hurt Americans for generations to come.
But hey! At least eggs and gas will be cheaper, right? Oh wait…
Shocker?: Donald Trump Inauguration Draws In Less Viewers Than Expected
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