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Trump’s inauguration is a rankings bust

Editorial Board Published January 22, 2025
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The rankings are in, and let’s simply say they don’t look too good after Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Actually, his rankings are downright underwhelming in comparison with each his personal 2017 inauguration and Joe Biden’s in 2021. 

Trump’s inauguration ranking dipped 27% from Biden’s 2021 viewership and 20% from his first inauguration in 2017, which should be devastating to the president, who likes to harp about his crowd sizes.

CNN averaged 1.7 million viewers throughout the identical interval, MSNBC had 848,000 viewers, ABC had 4.7 million viewers, CBS had 4.1 million viewers, NBC had 4.4 million viewers, and there’s no rapid info on viewers rankings for streaming platforms.

That implies that extra individuals watched Beyonce’s Christmas halftime present than the forty seventh president’s inauguration.


A small crowd stands on bleachers throughout Trump’s 2017 inauguration.

These numbers appear particularly bleak when you think about the dimensions of the U.S. inhabitants and the truth that a comparatively modest 7.2% of U.S. residents watched Trump’s inauguration. However, hey, a minimum of they did not must witness the limitless spectacle of Trump claiming report crowds, an ongoing theme from his first inauguration. 

For these with quick reminiscences, Trump’s first time period kicked off in 2017 with a weird and unprovoked obsession over his crowd measurement. Throughout his first White Home press convention, he directed his short-lived Press Secretary Sean Spicer to lie about how many individuals gathered on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, D.C., evaluating his crowd to that of former President Barack Obama in 2009—who individuals can see in photographs was clearly extra outstanding.

No less than they didn’t miss a lot, apart from Trump not placing his hand on the bible throughout his oath of workplace, a clumsy air kiss with Melania, and an array of billionaire oligarchs entrance and heart. 

Whether or not it is his polarizing presence, normal apathy, despondency, or Trump fatigue, this dip in viewership means that the urge for food for Trump’s theatrics is likely to be waning—a minimum of for now.

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