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45.6 Million Tune In For Trump’s First State Of The Union Address

02.01.18 | 6:50 am

on January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. — WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers the State of the Union address as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (L) and Speaker of the House U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) look on in the chambe... WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers the State of the Union address as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (L) and Speaker of the House U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) look on in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the first State of the Union address given by U.S. President Donald Trump and his second address to a joint meeting of Congress. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump reached an audience of 45.6 million people for his first State of the Union address, not enough to give him bragging rights over his predecessor.

The Nielsen company said former President Barack Obama drew 48 million people for his first State of the Union in 2010.

Trump’s audience was down from the 47.7 million people who watched his address to the joint session of Congress last February.

Fox News Channel earned the top spot among the individual networks, with 11.5 million viewers during the speech. It was the first time that Fox News, home of Trump-friendly opinion hosts like Sean Hannity, beat all of the networks for the State of the Union, although Fox also was the network of choice for Trump’s address to Congress last February.

NBC (7.1 million) and CBS (7 million) fought for second place. The Fox broadcast network had 3.6 million, CNN had 3.1 million and MSNBC had 2.7 million, Nielsen said.

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cervantes says:

February 1, 2018

President Donald Trump reached an audience of 45.6 million people for his first State of the Union address, not enough to give him bragging rights over his predecessor.

When did that ever stop him?

I do wonder how many actually tuned in to see how his wife is doing.
cervantes says:

February 1, 2018

Meanwhile …

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lafe19 says:

February 1, 2018

Of course Trump has already lied and said it is the biggest audience ever for a SOTU. Just tweeted this morning.
cervantes says:

February 1, 2018

lafe19:

Trump has already lied and said it is the biggest audience ever for a SOTU. Just tweeted this morning.

I can almost pity the fool.
jmacaz says:

February 1, 2018

Is anyone surprised that Fox News had the highest amount of viewers… DUH