{"id":65479,"date":"2025-03-06T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65479"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:57:36","slug":"trump-is-toast-his-speech-draws-fewer-viewers-than-any-of-his-prior-state-of-the-union-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65479","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP IS TOAST: His Speech Draws Fewer Viewers than Any of His Prior State of the Union Addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it seems like eons ago, Donald Trump came to the attention of most Americans via his schlocky reality TV show “The Apprentice,”<\/em> where he play-acted being a successful businessman who weekly fired some poor schnook for not adequately performing a pointless task. The program was a clumsily scripted farce that had nothing to do with reality.<\/p>\n

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The role that Trump hammed up so horribly has stayed with him throughout his foray into politics. He is still a miserable businessman whose ventures go belly up more often than not; he still gets off on firing people for no good reason, now with the help of his DOGE stooge, Elon Musk; and he is still driven by his egomaniacal dependency on constant attention and slobbering approval.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: OH-NO! Trump WH Aide Brags They are Running the Country Like Trump and Musk Run Their Businesses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

With that in mind, it is likely that Trump is having a bad morning now that the ratings for his speech before the Joint Session of Congress have been released. As reported by Variety<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“Donald Trump\u2018s address to Congress reached an average of 36.6 million viewers on Monday. That total puts the speech 13% above Joe Biden\u2019s most recent State of the Union address, which reached 32.2 million viewers in 2024. Still, Trump didn\u2019t manage to draw as large an audience as he did with any of his State of the Union addresses during his first term as president. His 2017 address reached 47.7 million viewers, followed by 45.6 million in 2018, 46.8 in 2019 and 37.2 million in 2020.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Trump’s ratings have been trending downward with almost every successive appearance for this annual address. That’s consistent with his decline in popular approval polling. In fact, a recent poll found that Trump ranked below every other president dating back to 1953<\/a><\/strong>. What’s more, the ratings for his inauguration placed 27% lower than those for President Biden’s. And you know that’s gotta tear at his innards.<\/p>\n

In addition to Trump’s sinking ratings for his speeches, the breakdown of viewers isn’t anything to crow about either. Variety elaborates…<\/p>\n

“Older viewers made up a significant majority of Trump\u2019s audience. Nielsen notes that 70.7% of viewers were aged 55 or older, with 20.5% being 35-54 and 5.7% being 18-34. Additionally, viewership peaked from 9:45 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET, rising above the 36.6 million average to reach 37.9 million viewers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These numbers show that Trump’s viewing audience was heavily weighted toward seniors, whose interests he is actively working against. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports that the latest GOP proposal virtually guarantees that programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and even Social Security will have to suffer sharp cuts<\/a><\/strong> in both funding and staffing.<\/p>\n

The numbers also reveal that Trump’s audience drifted away long before he finished at 10:30pm ET. Clearly he is not as beloved as he thinks he is. Except, that is, for one particular segment of the television audience. As Variety notes, the Fox News portion of the audience comprised nearly 30% of all viewers, with the remaining viewers being split by at least 12 other networks. So he was mostly preaching to the cult.<\/p>\n

Trump will also be disappointed to hear the results of a CBS flash poll following his speech. The positive reaction in that poll was 44%, which is not only less than a majority, it was dead last for similar presidential addresses going back 25 years. And that’s despite the poll being over-represented by Republicans over Democrats by more than two to one.<\/p>\n

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Even though Republicans were over-represented in this CNN flash poll, positive reaction for Trump still ranked dead last going back 25 years.<\/p>\n

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-03-06T20:57:11.173Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n