Over 32.6 million viewers watched President Trump handle the nation on Tuesday night time, in response to Nielsen knowledge.
It’s each the smallest viewers Trump has acquired for the annual speech to a joint session of Congress, and the longest State of the Union handle in latest historical past.
This was the president’s first State of the Union handle of his second time period. Beforehand, his addresses scored 45.5 million in 2018, 46.8 million in 2019 and 37.1 million in 2020, the Nielsen knowledge present.
This yr’s speech clocked in at 107 minutes, topping the file set by President Clinton in 2000.
Dealing with low approval rankings, Trump performed up optimistic financial numbers, a few of which had been misstated, and the administration’s aggressive crackdown on undocumented immigrants, drawing polarized reactions within the chamber.
Trump additionally acknowledged the Males’s Olympic hockey group, which received its first gold medal since 1980 on Sunday with its victory in opposition to Canada, and various different visitors attended the handle, together with the widow of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and Paramount Skydance’s CEO David Ellison.
The U.S. Olympic males’s ice hockey group arrives for the State of the Union handle .
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There have been 15 networks that televised the speech. Fox Information had the most important viewers with 9.1 million viewers. ABC was second with 5.1 million, adopted by NBC‘s 3.6 million, CBS’ 3.3 million, MS NOW’s 2.4 million, CNN’s 2.2 million, and the Fox broadcast community’s 2.1 million.
