Posted on 02/13/2021 12:27:58 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Audience size has been an enduring fixation for now-former President Trump
Joe Biden's presidential inauguration proved more popular with viewers than Donald Trump's in 2017. Multiple outlets, including The New York Times and Variety, report that preliminary Nielsen ratings show close to 40 million people tuned in to watch Biden take the oath of office, as opposed to about 38.3 million for Trump— an audience increase of about 4 percent.
Ratings and crowd size have been an enduring fixation for now-former President Trump, who began his term in office insisting that he drew far more inaugural attendees than he did.
A White House spokesman likewise attacked the media soon after Trump was sworn in, claiming the size of his crowd was misrepresented. (It was not.)
In an inaugural address that blended hope and certainty — at the same place where, just two weeks previous, a mob of pro-Trump rioters invaded the U.S. Capitol in an attack that left five people dead in an attempt to stop the certification of his election victory over Trump — Biden declared, "This is America's day. This is democracy's day."
Trump did not attend the inauguration, as he confirmed in a tweet prior to the event. (Since the Capitol riots, the 45th president has been permanently suspended from Twitter.) Departing Vice President Mike Pence did attend, however.
While not naming Trump, during his speech Biden said to applause, "We must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured" — an apparent reference to Trump's voluminous false and misleading claims over the course of his administration.
That habit reached its apotheosis two weeks ago: Trump's repeated lying that he won November's election encouraged the deadly rioting by a throng of his supporters who broke into the Capitol and wreaked havoc inside.
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Well considering Trump had about 1.5 million in person at his inauguration..🙄
Also Trump had way more on streaming, and of course in person than Biden. If Biden had 81 million votes and nobody showing in person, his TV viewership should be 5 million more than Trumps. Right?
It’s obvious.
The object of the BS is to give the impression that moron Joe has a major mandate. Which he does not.
More lies.
We try ;-)
Blessings
Considering how ‘they fudged the numbers’ on election day and Cuomo’s Senior death numbers....there’s absolutely no reason to accept or believe ANY numbers they use on anything whatsoever.
I guess it took them this long to come out with that because they were busy counting views with a Dominion view counter or something.
Funny that I’ve read a million reports concerning the Trump rally in Washington last Jan. but have never heard the number of people it attracted mentioned in any of them.
Correct. Whatever is reported in the Mockingbird State Media is for the sole purpose of pushing an agenda. The question for readers of modern Pravda is, why are the mockingbirds so keen on pushing the narrative now suddenly that dopey joe is somehow popular? Didn't he already "win" the election?
What are gropey joe's puppet masters planning now?
seriously? The Ministry of Truth has deemed it so. Big Brother is much more popular than “Orange man must not be named”.
200 years
“If there were more viewers, Nielson wouldn’t hide the numbers for over a month.”
Ya put yer left leg in
Ya pull yer left leg out
Ya put........
Conservatives largely don’t watch the legacy media anymore. Most of us watch things online now. The propagandists simply didn’t bother counting the majority of Trump’s actual supporters and how they viewed his speech.
People were at work at noon in 2017. In 2021, they are home drinking at noon on a workday.
“And Trump STILL occupies their pages they couldn’t wait to get rid of him YET he STILL occupies space in their brains WHY??”
They were so sure they had already crushed the American people, and Trump proved they had not. That’s why they progressed to calling half the country domestic terrorists, even though they are the ones devoted to the abolition of the United States in any recognizable form.
They thought especially that they’d have total control once demographic changes they set in place kicked in, but Trump won over much larger numbers of minorities to their horror. Not even Texas with only 41% of its population non-Hispanic white at this point went Dem, when they thought it would be a sure thing by now. They see Trump as a thief who stole their great victory over Americans away from them. They thought they’d already be most of the way there to their Marxist Utopia replacement-America by now.
More people tuned in because so many expected Chomo Joe to collapse in to a mumbling pile of jelly. Somehow his handlers kept him vertical for a few minutes.
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