{"id":46453,"date":"2020-08-28T12:40:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T19:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46453"},"modified":"2020-08-28T21:38:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T04:38:02","slug":"trumps-rnc-speech-flops-in-the-ratings-loses-to-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46453","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s RNC Speech Flops in the Ratings, Loses to Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our reality TV game show host president has made it clear over the years that the most important thing to him are his television ratings. He cites them to validate<\/a><\/strong> the usefulness of his phony Coronavirus Task Force briefings. In his ego-soaked ignorance, he considers them to be “the real polls<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/em> But now he’s going to have to live with the yardstick for success that he created.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

The overnight Nielsen ratings for Trump’s nomination acceptance speech at the Republican Nationalist Confederation were an unmitigated flop. Despite his illegally using the White House for his political campaign, and cramming a couple of thousand cheering sycophants into a small space with no face masks, Trump still managed to underperform. As reported by CNN<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“President Trump’s Thursday night convention speech making the case for his reelection was lower-rated than his challenger Joe Biden’s speech one week ago, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.<\/p>\n

“About 23.8 million viewers watched coverage of Trump’s RNC address across thirteen cable and broadcast networks, down from 24.6 million viewers who watched Biden’s DNC address on twelve of those same networks.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the method of measuring that Trump has insisted best reflects where the American people stand. He’s wrong! But since he’s made such a big deal of it, it would be unfair not to give it due consideration. Two million more people watched Biden, who Trump has maligned with infantile nicknames such as “sleepy”<\/em> and “slow.”<\/em> And the Democratic convention also beat the Republicans for the total four days combined. So where does that leave Trump now?<\/p>\n

Even on Fox News immediately following Trump’s 70 minute harangue, Chris Wallace told the Trump cultists<\/a><\/strong> watching that the speech was “surprisingly flat,”<\/em> “far too long,”<\/em> and lacked substance. Yet somehow, in Trump’s delusional fantasy world, he posted a tweet that contradicted reality:<\/p>\n

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Great Ratings & Reviews Last Night. Thank you!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n