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....
