Estimated 24.6 million TV viewers watched inauguration coverage, smallest audience since 2013
Estimated 24.6 million TV viewers watched inauguration coverage, smallest audience since 2013
The Nielsen Company says an estimated 24.6 million people watched coverage of President Donald Trump's second inauguration.
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.
Yeah my sister was shocked that the I didn't even watch the highlight reels. Cause I just don't want to see that fuck. I'm going to be hearing about him and his batshit schemes for the next 4 years and I just don't want to fucking deal with it right now.
I didn't watch it but I still heard all about it.
Anyone else notice how political participation has been reduced to a consumption activity and pulling a lever to the left or the right? It's almost like there's a great big spectacle, and we're all just hypnotized by the spectacle, and it's alienated us from our surroundings and reality into mere spectators and automatons neutered from having an effect on our material conditions. Somebody should write a book about that, named something like, "Society of the Spectacle".
What's smaller? His audience or what's in his pants?
I skimmed it on YouTube, enough to see grandpavict nodding off at his own event, if he can't be bothered to tune in, why the fuck would i?
I actually unplugged the TVs in the gym
Why the fuck were they on that channel?
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.
Is that a malnourished child's hand?
There's a reason he was called the Short Fingered Vulgarian
I instinctively looked to see if there was a child hand stuck in his teeth.
Maybe that's the hand that colored the face orange?
So the numbers are actually quite a bit lower. All news agencies fluff their numbers, until tax time.
Anyone else not only not watch, but actively avoided any possibility of even catching a glimpse 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 would rather smear human shit in my eyes than watch it.
Actually watching it would be the equivalent
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.
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 only found out about Nazi Space Karen's antics cuz of the memes.
I tried, but couldn't avoid seeing a specific two seconds of it...
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.
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.
The fact that it’s streaming on Disney+, while not surprising, is disgusting.
We watched just to see if we needed to throw the bug-out bag in the car and go.
Hey just a word of advice, if shit hits the fan unless there is an immediate threat its generally better to stay in place. Even if folks dont know you they may know of ypur car, house, general sounds and what not which will possibly make them more likely to offer aid if needed. Also folks are gonna be a lot more wary of outsiders in times of trouble.
Noted!
Did you throw the bug-out bag in the car and go? You can't leave us hanging like that
Nah, I wouldn't be on Lemmy if we had ;)
Probably watched online instead
I doubt even that many watched.
Right? It seems like a lot.
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.
Willingly having to look at that Orange piece of shit. No thank you.
Also listening to his voice. It’s like nails on a chalkboard. But worse.
Nails on a chalkboard just sends shivers through me. The mandarin mussolini's speach makes me a threat to my environment and myself.
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.
Nah every inauguration is inane drivel not worth anyones time, its solidly in the F tier unless someone gets shot. If they want to make it more interesting have them cut off one of their fingers on their dominant hand as part of the oath, if they arent able to do it themselves someone else will chop off the hand with an axe.
Maybe Musk paid a farm to increase the views.
I watched some bits. Saw a few random senators spouting LLM-generated soundbites that basically meant fuck all but a thinly-veiled attempt to get their plastic faces on the news
Over and over and over and over again. Maximum five words per sentence
Switched it off before the orange chimpanzee even opened that weird sphincter on his face
So even his TV numbers are lower than Obama's?
Metrics are skewed. Asmongold's Twitch re-upload on YouTube reacting to Twitter blips had like half a million views alone.
“It was the BIGGEST TV AUDIENCE EVER!!” - Sean Spicer, probably
But really, how many people still watch TV?
First time seeing him swearing in. Look how small his hand is
I can't even look at the guy because I might see his diaper.
Misleading since it doesn’t include streaming numbers. I’d wager most people streamed this.
Nielsen counts streams.
I watched through a YouTube commentator's live stream. Do you think Nielsen counts those?
My source of alternative facts says it was the biglyest audience in the history of everything.
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
