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Old 01-22-2017, 12:38 PM
 
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Originally Posted by sickofnyc View Post
The birter-in-chief has turned our nation into a laughing stock dumbed-down reality show...The White House episodes.

Listen to yourself and how this bait and switch swindler has made viewer ratings the criteria for everything. This is truly pathetic!
Isn't it though?!!!
It would be hilarious if the stakes weren't so high and if he wasn't such a potentially dangerous president.
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Old 01-22-2017, 12:40 PM
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More importantly Trump won the electoral college. All that matters.
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Old 01-22-2017, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Austin
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I watched the entire Inauguration ceremonies on TV Friday. First time I've ever watched one. It was enjoyable.
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Old 01-22-2017, 12:41 PM
 
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Considering most trump voters were at work, most probably Watched n comouters or smartphones like I did.

It was a historic inauguration in that it showed that a non-politician can win and can do it without spending a billion dollars.
He did not have to. The pandering MSM gave the swindler 3 billion dollars of free publicity.
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Old 01-22-2017, 12:57 PM
 
Location: The analog world
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There's nothing like a train wreck to bring out the spectators.
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Old 01-22-2017, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Stasis
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Wow, even Jimmy Carter beat Trump.

TV Viewership:
2017 31 million - Trump
2013 21 million - Obama
2009 36 million - Obama
2005 15 million - Bush
2001 29 million - Bush
1997 22 million - Clinton
1993 30 million - Clinton
1989 23 million - Bush
1985 25 million - Reagan
1981 42 million - Reagan
1977 34 million - Carter
1973 33 million - Nixon
1969 27 million - Nixon

Trump inauguration draws nearly 31 million U.S. television viewers | Reuters
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Old 01-22-2017, 01:18 PM
 
Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, Calif.
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There's nothing like a train wreck to bring out the spectators.
Oh, maybe that is why so many were watching in 2008.
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Old 01-22-2017, 01:19 PM
 
Location: United States
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Wow, even Jimmy Carter beat Trump.

TV Viewership:
2017 31 million - Trump
2013 21 million - Obama
2009 36 million - Obama
2005 15 million - Bush
2001 29 million - Bush
1997 22 million - Clinton
1993 30 million - Clinton
1989 23 million - Bush
1985 25 million - Reagan
1981 42 million - Reagan
1977 34 million - Carter

Trump inauguration draws nearly 31 million U.S. television viewers | Reuters
Except that the TV ratings don't reflect that millions of people watched Trump's inauguration via livestream.

CNN estimated that over 16 million people watched the inauguration on livestreams.

That would put Trump at over 47 million people watching his inauguration.
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Old 01-22-2017, 01:21 PM
 
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I watched. Not because I support Trump, but because I wanted to see if he would act like a president, talk like a president, and try to include even those like me. He did not. He disappointed. It was his campaign speech without the red hat. I turned it off just as soon as Obama left on the helicopter and Biden boarded the railroad car (that was rich). So let's not conflate the numbers into some approval factor. Half the people who watch Trump are doing it to see the train wreck.
Many that watched Obama were watching for other reasons also.
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Old 01-22-2017, 01:25 PM
 
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The desperate need by Trump and his supporters for Trump to be viewed as the most popular is truly amazing. Looks like he came in 3rd since Reagan and 4th if we go back to Carter. Perhaps he should get a trophy for showing up.

I agree with the bolded. It's just weird.


Both his inauguration crowd and his tv ratings are respectable. Not OMG THE BIGGEST EVAHH!!!!, but far from the lowest. Nothing to be ashamed of. But the need to spin and go on the attack over it being cast as anything other than Winning to the Top of Winology lol is so... I mean why? Who the hell cares?
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