Summary
Donald Trump’s second inauguration drew an estimated 24.6 million television viewers, the lowest audience for a presidential inauguration since Barack Obama’s second in 2013.
Viewership declined compared to Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration (33.8 million) and Trump’s first in 2017 (30.6 million).
Fox News led coverage, averaging 10.3 million viewers during the swearing-in and speech, while other networks saw smaller audiences.
I didn’t watch a single minute and I didn’t give a single shit about the coverage of it.
Democrats should’ve followed AOC and not even attended.
I doubt even that many watched.
It was unlikely to make for scintillating television.
Unless somebody Guy Fawkes’d the lot of them, it’s just hours of footage of people signing bits of paper.
Right? It seems like a lot.
The fact that it’s streaming on Disney+, while not surprising, is disgusting.
“It was the BIGGEST TV AUDIENCE EVER!!” - Sean Spicer, probably
But really, how many people still watch TV?
I didn’t know it was on Disney+. That’s interesting. It really shows how the TV landscape is shifting away from broadcast.
Fuck Trump, but I think it sorta makes sense for the new “networks” to carry live events like this as we move to all-digital.
Back in the day, when over the air was the main option, it was good that things like this were put in front of people. I still think things like this should be put in front of people.
And I’ll reiterate: fuck Trump.
Just wait. There will be mergers and buyouts like you have t seen in your lifetime the next 4 years. Verizon/Comcast/Meta, Disney(abc, Hulu, ESPN, Pixar), Twitter/Fox/tiktok, etc.
AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe’s
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Don’t worry, trump will lie about this too
In his last term Traitorapist Trump told 30800 lies. Which is 20-25 lies per day every day.
Trump literally thinks that dishonesty is a virtue. Another 30000+ lies are coming your way.
Misleading since it doesn’t include streaming numbers. I’d wager most people streamed this.
Nielsen counts streams.
They even track DVR and VOD. Pretty interesting. For streaming it’s actually the distributor that’s responsible for tagging a program so Nielsen can analyze the ratings.
Thank you for making me curious enough to look that up.
I watched through a YouTube commentator’s live stream. Do you think Nielsen counts those?
I saw that shit on Disney plus.
Immediately cancelled my sub.
Kids can have Bluey from the warships on the ocean 🦜☠️.I’d like to support content creators. They work hard, deliver their dream. And early on, a large delivery network is desirable! But if that provider enshitifies beyond my threshold, they are dead to me.
So set sail!
Hulu advertised this today. Like… What the fuck? How much did the oompa loopa pay you, Disney? They know we don’t want to watch this.
its just monkeys singing songs mate, don’t think to hard on it
I saw that shit on Disney plus.
What, and I mean this will all my soul, the actual fuck?
I don’t give a single wet shit who the president is, why in the chocolate covered fuck is a streaming media content platform pushing that shit? Really glad I never gave them any money, and the subscription we had always a friend’s.
They also live streamed the debates, so this isn’t unusual for Disney. I think they have some live channels as well, so it probably falls under that portion of the service.
Probably watched online instead
So even his TV numbers are lower than Obama’s?
I watched it on YouTube, it was really good quality
Because nobody else was watching it so there was plenty of bandwidth. LOL, you should have said Netflix, more people would have gotten the joke
First time seeing him swearing in. Look how small his hand is
More proof that biden fucked up by running. People don’t want this but given the options they’ll fuck shit up, I guess.
Anyone else not only not watch, but actively avoided any possibility of even catching a glimpse of it?
I would rather smear human shit in my eyes than watch it.
Actually watching it would be the equivalent
I tried, but couldn’t avoid seeing a specific two seconds of it…
I tried. It was the Nazi salute that broke through for me. I just couldn’t ignore it… I didn’t actually see it until watching the rerun of Monday’s Daily Show last night, but I saw the still shots.
I only found out about Nazi Space Karen’s antics cuz of the memes.
If I hear his droning groggly voice going off about some fake shit, I usually snap and tell whoever to shut that shit off. It’s unbearable. The guy sounds how I imagine anyone would after a 40+ years of Quarter Pounders and Diet Coke, he’s probably way over his fair share in carbon emissions from his diet alone.
I thought I could tolerate reading quotes of him but it’s a mess every time. Whatever schools he attended failed him greatly.
LALALALALA!! I know I have to listen to journalist people summarize the shit he’s done because it’s the reality we need to oppose. But nobody who isn’t paid for it should have to listen to that mosquito whine.
My rule is that I will always change the channel whenever Traitorapist Trump is speaking on TV. I can read a summary later, but mainly to get the tally of lies for that day.
And it’s even worse when he reads from the autocue. It’s like he talks himself to sleep, he loses energy after speaking more than 2 bigly words in a row. That’s probably why he always interjects himself with some dumb catchphrase to wake himself up.
I feel like I’m being mansplained to by the stupidest man in existence. Which works since apparently Trump’s executive order makes me a woman now.
No, it makes you non-binary. We’re neither male nor female at conception.
Whatever. If Trump doesn’t need science, neither do I.
This really is the perfect way to put it, and I feel like it even comes from a similar place of “I’m better than you so I know better than you” smarmyness.
I watched it but mostly to witness the oath and was sickened the whole time. How much of the audience was like me I wonder.
