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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his first State of the Union speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill as Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi applaud January 27, 2010l in Washington, DC. (Photo: Tim Sloan-Pool/Getty Images)
'Delivered From the Heart!': Trump Lies About Historic SOTU Viewership
Fact check: Trump's address actually had "fewer viewers than the first SOTU's for Obama in 2010, Bush in 2002, Clinton in 1994."
Feb 01, 2018
President Donald Trump lied in a tweet Thursday morning when he bragged that his State of the Union was watched by the "highest number [of people] in history"--a demonstrably false claim.
While Trump appeared to be citing Neilsen ratings released Wednesday which said that 45.6 million watch his speech, that number falls well short of the number of people who watched President Barack Obama's first SOTU and isn't even as many people as watch Trump's first joint statement to Congress last year.
\u201cThank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech. 45.6 million people watched, the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in. Delivered from the heart!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1517486569
As the New York Daily News points out:
About 48 million people watched Obama's first speech to Congress on Jan. 27, 2010, the data-collecting Nielsen Company said in a statement Wednesday.
Trump, who's famously obsessed with TV ratings, also saw his SOTU fall behind his own first joint address to Congress. That speech, delivered on Feb. 28, drew 47.7 million viewers.
On Twitter, Trump was not spared fact-checking, ridicule, and derision after he again--like he did for his inauguration address--tried to claim credit for a crowd size that wasn't:
\u201cFewer viewers than the first SOTU\u2019s for Obama in 2010, Bush in 2002, Clinton in 1994.\n\n\u201cWhich means Trump\u2019s initial SOTU, the third longest in history, is now also the least watched address in nearly a quarter of a century.\u201d\n\nhttps://t.co/rZUpNhzJF0 https://t.co/VUPGtj6Z5i\u201d— Jake Tapper (@Jake Tapper) 1517488669
\u201cTrump just lies about everything. Obama's first State of the Union was watched by 48 million people which is, well, higher than 45.6 million. https://t.co/uZDCoEkM9l https://t.co/pBrja0o57V\u201d— Brian Klaas (@Brian Klaas) 1517487283
\u201cI like that Trump gets everybody all frustrated with his bogus SOTU ratings claim. I\u2019ll tell y\u2019all the same thing I tell my 7-yo when my 5-yo annoys him, \u201cSTOP LISTENING TO HIM AND HE\u2019LL STOP DOING IT\u201d\u201d— Chris Howell \ud83c\udf84 (@Chris Howell \ud83c\udf84) 1517490813
\u201cTrump lying about his SOTU ratings was more predictable than the the sun coming up this morning\u201d— GA THE LAND OF CHAMPIONS\ud83c\udfc6 (@GA THE LAND OF CHAMPIONS\ud83c\udfc6) 1517490518
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President Donald Trump lied in a tweet Thursday morning when he bragged that his State of the Union was watched by the "highest number [of people] in history"--a demonstrably false claim.
While Trump appeared to be citing Neilsen ratings released Wednesday which said that 45.6 million watch his speech, that number falls well short of the number of people who watched President Barack Obama's first SOTU and isn't even as many people as watch Trump's first joint statement to Congress last year.
\u201cThank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech. 45.6 million people watched, the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in. Delivered from the heart!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1517486569
As the New York Daily News points out:
About 48 million people watched Obama's first speech to Congress on Jan. 27, 2010, the data-collecting Nielsen Company said in a statement Wednesday.
Trump, who's famously obsessed with TV ratings, also saw his SOTU fall behind his own first joint address to Congress. That speech, delivered on Feb. 28, drew 47.7 million viewers.
On Twitter, Trump was not spared fact-checking, ridicule, and derision after he again--like he did for his inauguration address--tried to claim credit for a crowd size that wasn't:
\u201cFewer viewers than the first SOTU\u2019s for Obama in 2010, Bush in 2002, Clinton in 1994.\n\n\u201cWhich means Trump\u2019s initial SOTU, the third longest in history, is now also the least watched address in nearly a quarter of a century.\u201d\n\nhttps://t.co/rZUpNhzJF0 https://t.co/VUPGtj6Z5i\u201d— Jake Tapper (@Jake Tapper) 1517488669
\u201cTrump just lies about everything. Obama's first State of the Union was watched by 48 million people which is, well, higher than 45.6 million. https://t.co/uZDCoEkM9l https://t.co/pBrja0o57V\u201d— Brian Klaas (@Brian Klaas) 1517487283
\u201cI like that Trump gets everybody all frustrated with his bogus SOTU ratings claim. I\u2019ll tell y\u2019all the same thing I tell my 7-yo when my 5-yo annoys him, \u201cSTOP LISTENING TO HIM AND HE\u2019LL STOP DOING IT\u201d\u201d— Chris Howell \ud83c\udf84 (@Chris Howell \ud83c\udf84) 1517490813
\u201cTrump lying about his SOTU ratings was more predictable than the the sun coming up this morning\u201d— GA THE LAND OF CHAMPIONS\ud83c\udfc6 (@GA THE LAND OF CHAMPIONS\ud83c\udfc6) 1517490518
President Donald Trump lied in a tweet Thursday morning when he bragged that his State of the Union was watched by the "highest number [of people] in history"--a demonstrably false claim.
While Trump appeared to be citing Neilsen ratings released Wednesday which said that 45.6 million watch his speech, that number falls well short of the number of people who watched President Barack Obama's first SOTU and isn't even as many people as watch Trump's first joint statement to Congress last year.
\u201cThank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech. 45.6 million people watched, the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in. Delivered from the heart!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1517486569
As the New York Daily News points out:
About 48 million people watched Obama's first speech to Congress on Jan. 27, 2010, the data-collecting Nielsen Company said in a statement Wednesday.
Trump, who's famously obsessed with TV ratings, also saw his SOTU fall behind his own first joint address to Congress. That speech, delivered on Feb. 28, drew 47.7 million viewers.
On Twitter, Trump was not spared fact-checking, ridicule, and derision after he again--like he did for his inauguration address--tried to claim credit for a crowd size that wasn't:
\u201cFewer viewers than the first SOTU\u2019s for Obama in 2010, Bush in 2002, Clinton in 1994.\n\n\u201cWhich means Trump\u2019s initial SOTU, the third longest in history, is now also the least watched address in nearly a quarter of a century.\u201d\n\nhttps://t.co/rZUpNhzJF0 https://t.co/VUPGtj6Z5i\u201d— Jake Tapper (@Jake Tapper) 1517488669
\u201cTrump just lies about everything. Obama's first State of the Union was watched by 48 million people which is, well, higher than 45.6 million. https://t.co/uZDCoEkM9l https://t.co/pBrja0o57V\u201d— Brian Klaas (@Brian Klaas) 1517487283
\u201cI like that Trump gets everybody all frustrated with his bogus SOTU ratings claim. I\u2019ll tell y\u2019all the same thing I tell my 7-yo when my 5-yo annoys him, \u201cSTOP LISTENING TO HIM AND HE\u2019LL STOP DOING IT\u201d\u201d— Chris Howell \ud83c\udf84 (@Chris Howell \ud83c\udf84) 1517490813
\u201cTrump lying about his SOTU ratings was more predictable than the the sun coming up this morning\u201d— GA THE LAND OF CHAMPIONS\ud83c\udfc6 (@GA THE LAND OF CHAMPIONS\ud83c\udfc6) 1517490518
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