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highplainsdem

(53,396 posts) Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:52 PM Jan 21

Trump's Inauguration Ratings Down Bigly From Biden's

Source: Mediaite

The television ratings for President Donald Trump’s second inauguration are in, and they dropped 27% from President Joe Biden’s in 2021 and were nearly 20% lower than Trump’s first swearing-in in 2017.

Unsurprisingly, Fox News dominated the ratings for the festivities in the nation’s capital, beating out both their broadcast and cable competitors, and drawing in the second-highest ratings for Inauguration Day coverage in the network’s history, according to a Fox News press release. An average of 10.3 million viewers tuned into Fox News from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm ET Monday, including 2 million in the advertiser-coveted demographic of ages 25-54.

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Altogether, Trump’s triumphant return to the White House drew an average total viewership for the day (tracking from 10:30 am to 7:00 pm ET) of 24.59 million viewers, reported The Wrap. That figure is based on combining viewer numbers from fifteen networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, Merit Street Media, Telemundo, Univision, CNBC, CNN, CNNe, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC, Newsmax, NewsNation, and PBS.

That number of 24.59 million viewers was 27% lower than Biden’s 2021 inauguration (33.76 million viewers tracked from 17 channels) was 19.75% lower than Trump’s first inauguration in 2021 (30.64 million viewers across 12 networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, Univision, Telemundo, CNBC, Fox Business Network, Galavision, and HLN).

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trumps-inauguration-ratings-down-bigly-from-bidens/

Trump's audience also had only about half as many viewers as Biden's in the 18-34 and 35-54 age groups, but nearly as many in the 55+ group.

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Trump's Inauguration Ratings Down Bigly From Biden's (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 21 OP

We win we win BOSSHOG Jan 21 #1

Now that you mention Telemundo Submariner Jan 21 #2

HAHAHAHAHAAAA! At LEAST Something we can Laugh at! electric_blue68 Jan 21 #3

And that's with it being a federal holiday due to it Phoenix61 Jan 21 #4

See media, see how much $ you just lost by kissing Trump's ass and brainwashing the low info voters? GreenWave Jan 21 #5

25M out of 330+M people in the US Deminpenn Jan 21 #6

And how many of those fux viewers counted were ppl in airports, restaurants and shops- TV on but not watching PortTack Jan 21 #7

Moving it indoors made a small crowd look huge. keithbvadu2 Jan 21 #8

I remember watching President Biden's first speech on that day. It was nothing short of amazing. C Moon Jan 22 #9

Beyonc's NFL halftime show on Christmas received more viewers than Donald Trump's inauguration LetMyPeopleVote Jan 22 #10

Television audience for Trump inauguration was smallest in decades LetMyPeopleVote Friday #11

BOSSHOG

(40,782 posts)

1. We win we win

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:55 PM

Jan 21

I’m in President Biden’s 55+ age group. We kicked the felons 55+ age groups ass. The victory was huge. No one has ever seen anything like it.

Submariner

(12,785 posts)

2. Now that you mention Telemundo

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:57 PM

Jan 21

Where the hell has Jorge Ramos been? He was a major thorn in Dementia Don's side, and I thought he liked tormenting our rapist in chief.

electric_blue68

(19,568 posts)

3. HAHAHAHAHAAAA! At LEAST Something we can Laugh at!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:59 PM

Jan 21

Phoenix61

(17,819 posts)

4. And that's with it being a federal holiday due to it

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:00 PM

Jan 21

being the same day as MLK Day.

GreenWave

(9,858 posts)

5. See media, see how much $ you just lost by kissing Trump's ass and brainwashing the low info voters?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:41 PM

Jan 21

Deminpenn

(16,435 posts)

6. 25M out of 330+M people in the US

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:00 PM

Jan 21

Less than 10% of the population watched and it was hard to avoid , only taking a 2 hr block break for network primetime from 8-10PM. I tuned in a couple times for 4-7 PM for local news and it was still on, I tuned back out.

PortTack

(35,111 posts)

7. And how many of those fux viewers counted were ppl in airports, restaurants and shops- TV on but not watching

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:10 PM

Jan 21

Take those away and the number, no doubt would drop,further

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)

8. Moving it indoors made a small crowd look huge.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:25 PM

Jan 21

Even Sean Spicer could not make the outdoor crowd look so good.

And he got to keep the bucks from unusable tickets

Calling them "commemorative" was a stroke of grifting genius.

C Moon

(12,664 posts)

9. I remember watching President Biden's first speech on that day. It was nothing short of amazing.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2025, 04:33 AM

Jan 22

We'd been through so much crap from COVID, to trump and his clan of thieves, it was such a relief to get our country back.

And now we hand it back to putin and the billionaires.

LetMyPeopleVote

(157,107 posts)

10. Beyonc's NFL halftime show on Christmas received more viewers than Donald Trump's inauguration

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2025, 02:12 PM

Jan 22

Link to tweet

LetMyPeopleVote

(157,107 posts)

11. Television audience for Trump inauguration was smallest in decades

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Jan 24, 2025, 02:48 PM

Friday

I did not watch this sham event and a good number of other people ignored this event

Link to tweet

NEW YORK — An estimated 24.6 million television viewers watched President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the smallest audience for the quadrennial ceremony since Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013.

The Nielsen Co. said viewership was down from Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, which reached 33.8 million, and Trump’s first move into the White House, seen by 30.6 million in 2017.

Inauguration viewership has varied widely over the past half-century, from a high of 41.8 million when Ronald Reagan came into office in 1981 to a low of 15.5 million for the start of George W. Bush’s second term in 2004.

The length of Trump’s inauguration coverage may have hurt him in bragging rights. The 24.6 million figure represents the average number of people tuning in to coverage on one of 15 networks between 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Eastern time. In past years, the coverage didn’t go on for so long, which meant the averages were likely higher because people tune away as the day goes on.

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