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Trump's total was greater than both swearing-ins of Democrat Bill Clinton - 29.7 million and 21.6 million - and the second inauguration of Obama, who drew an average audience of over 20.5 million in 2013, Nielsen said.
Nearly 31 million viewers watched live U.S. television coverage of Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, far fewer than tuned in to Barack Obama's first swearing-in.
The 2009 inauguration of Obama, who became the nation's first African-American president that year, was watched by nearly 38 million viewers, the second-highest number since Nielsen began compiling such figures with Richard Nixon's 1969 oath of office.
And I have to say it was hilarious to watch Trump's press guy get in front of the cameras and become the 2nd coming of Saddam Huessin's propaganda guy and LIE like a rug in the face of undeniable evidence that far, FAR fewer people attended Trump's inauguration than Obama's. Yes yes I know most of Trump's supporters were working of course they were.
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.
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