The Ratings Are In And It’s Not Looking Good for Trump’s Speech to Congress
Donald Trump is obsessed with checking the TV ratings for his speeches and appearances, but when he looks at the ratings from last night’s speech to Congress, he won’t be happy.
Compared to President Barack Obama’s first address in 2009, Trump’s early ratings are down by 17 percent.
Variety reported, “Across seven networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC — Trump’s speech notched a 27.8 household rating in those early ratings. Across these same networks, President Obama’s first address of a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, 2009, drew an overnight household rating of 33.4, a difference of about 17%. Fox News drew the biggest household rating of these networks, with a 6.4. It was followed by NBC (5.5), CBS (4.6), ABC (4.0), CNN (3.0), Fox Broadcasting (2.3), and MSNBC (2.0).”
Final ratings will be available from Nielsen Wednesday afternoon, but the first set of numbers aren’t looking good. Variety added that President Obama’s first address pulled in a total audience of “52.37 million people across the four broadcast networks, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, and Univision.” President George W. Bush’s first address was at 39.79 million, but was overshadowed by the State of the Union Address he delivered in 2003, which brought in 62.06 million viewers.
And what did Trump say on Twitter about the ratings? Nothing, of course.
