Donald Trump tweeted in the wee hours this morning that his State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening drew the highest number of viewers in history:
Thank 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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 1, 2018
Of course, like the vast majority of statements Trump made during the address, this tweet is simply not true. (According to PolitiFact, a whopping 33% of the things Trump said were false, 21% were mostly false, and 15% were flat out lies. Meanwhile, 4 % of what he said was true.)
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Obama’s speech in 2009 drew 52 million viewers; George W. Bush’s address in 2002 drew 51 million viewers and 62 million viewers in 2003; and Bill Clinton’s speech in 1993 drew 67 million viewers and 53 million viewers in 1998.
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So, no, Donald’s address on Tuesday definitely did not draw “the highest number in history.”
Folks on Twitter were quick to point out the president’s error…
Obama 2010 SOTU – 48 million
Bush 2003 – 62.1 million
Bush 2002 – 51.8 million
Clinton 1998 – 53.1 million
Clinton 1994 – 45.8 millionNielsen sent this info out yesterday lol https://t.co/LOG8najqXl
— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) February 1, 2018
— Eldar A. Mata (@EldarLD) February 1, 2018
Trump even lies about ratings…. wtf…. No sir, according to the numbers, you didn’t have the highest ratings number in history for the State of The Union address.
— Mr. Weeks (@MrDane1982) February 1, 2018
Sad that u lying every day is the norm
— byron dickerson (@yahb007) February 1, 2018
On the first day of Black History Month…Donald Trump wants to tell you that he had high ratings for his State of The Union speech.
Here is a piece of Black History Month trivia…
Barack Obama had more viewers for his first State Of The Union.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) February 1, 2018
Liar.
— IndivisibleTX-12 mtj (@Jenjktx) February 1, 2018
The only reason @realDonaldTrump thinks the ratings for his State of The Union address were so good is in Hell i made everyone take a break from their regularly scheduled torture to watch it. They begged me to stop.
— SaTaN (@theREELSaTaN) February 1, 2018
Says the Emperor who wears no clothes! Ryan and Nunes are the messengers! #NunesHoax #NunesHoax #NunesFakeMemo pic.twitter.com/7aRhDcLiqo
— Patrick Henry Revisited at 2021 (@2021_free) February 1, 2018
Memers have also taken notice…
Sorry, Don. You lose. Again.
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Kangol
Why does he lie about stupid stuff like this? I don’t get it. Yes, he had one of the lowest viewerships ever. But he still got a lot of positive press from it, so why not just go with that? His poll numbers even ticked up. But he’s so nuts he can’t even just bask in that. Sheesh!
Kieru
This is what concerns me too.
I mean whether his SOTU was highest rated or lowest rated is fundamentally immaterial to his being President of the United States. But that he feels the need to mislead the public about it? That he continually lies about little things in a way that attempts to make himself look better / more successful / more popular? It’s just delusional.
It begs the question of what larger things does he lie about.
OzJosh
Because he’s bat**** crazy. Surely that’s clear by now?
Nahald
To Trump it’s ALL ABOUT THE RATINGS, and nothing else matters. So in his ALTERNATE UNIVERSE and that of his supporters he’s the BEST OF EVERYTHING.
kwerty
He’s a Russian tool and so are his supporters. America for Americans
Ronbo
Can we just acknowledge that twitter is for twits?
Do the self-important dullards really need an app to show they are selfish, ego-centric twits?
paul dorian lord fredine
‘selfish egocentric twit’. ‘self-important dullard’. yup, that’s the dumpster.
KiwiJello
“My digital platform is so much better than yours”… #smh
Mick406
“Can we just acknowledge that twitter is for twits?” YEP!!!
DCguy
So lets see,
Trump lies, and yet you’re complaining about the people who pointed it out?
Mack
Who would have thunk he would lie about it?
Xzamilloh
And no cries of “Fake New” from the usual suspects. Is it because the “Fake News” town crier is now posting false stateme — I’m sorry — “Alternative Facts”?
leobaga
Looking on the Democrats side, and watching them sulk over America’s success, you could smell the rotting corpse of the Democratic Party.
Remember when they claimed Trump wouldn’t accept the election results? Look at the fear on their sad petulant faces as Trump is successful in moving America forward.
Kangol
Had Trump lost he wouldn’t have accepted the election results. But then as his senior campaign official K. T. McFarland is on record in an email as saying, “Russia has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,”.
All the way back 2016, the House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy was captured on tape musing to a room full of fellow Congressional Republicans that “I think Russia pays Trump and Rohrabacher.”
More than a few members of the Trump campaign and adminstration have lied repeatedly to the American people and apparently to Congress and the FBI about meeting with Russian contacts during the campaign. Why? Why lie if there’s nothing unusual going on? Two have already been convicted!
But then again, Trump can’t even tell the truth about something that is objectively clear, like how many people skipped his SOTU speech. The rot from that fish definitely is coming from the Con Man’s head.
Mick406
“Looking on the Democrats side, and watching them sulk over America’s success, you could smell the rotting corpse of the Democratic Party.”
You certainly have THAT right!!! Their far-left ideology will destroy the Dems. They would not stand or applaud ANYTHING Trump said last night, showing how disrespectful they are and proving they will never compromise for the betterment of the country. I was embarrassed FOR them last night as they showed the entire world how they hold our nation hostage with their hardheadedness!.
Kangol
@Mick406, not sure if you’re a sock-puppet of one of the other alt-righters (leoabaga) or not, but you complained about Democrats, saying “they hold our nation hostage with their hardheadedness.” Do you not realize that the Republican Party controls the Presidency, the Congress (Senate and House), and the Supreme Court (5-4). There is no way the Democrats can “hold the nation” hostage. Also, not a single Democrat disrespected the Liar in Chief the way that a vile Republican Congressman did when Barack Obama gave his first State of the Union address. Joe Wilson screamed out “You lie,” projecting his ignorance, since it turned out HE was wrong, not Obama. You can believe in your own reality, but that doesn’t make it objective or factual.
Mick406
Kangol
No. Not a puppet of anyone. Just a VERY OLD Veteran of two wars. I was a raging liberal Democrat in my younger years. It’s amazing what happens to your brain when you get older. You become smarter and enlightened, like ME! Ha.
I referenced the Dems holding the nation hostage because of how they would not work with the Republicans (fairly) to keep the government from shutting down. It doesn’t matter what is offered on the table, you can bet your ass that in just a few days we will be facing the same thing again. Trump has already agreed on the DACA thing, to allow those here to remain, and yet Schumer refuses to come to the table to compromise on ANYTHING.
I have to give you the one on where Obama was disrespected by the “You lie!” fellow. That was more disrespectful than what I mentioned.
DCguy
So just so I have this straight.
Trump lied and you, as an anti-lgbt troll tried to deflect the topic onto another topic.
Wow, you’re TERRIBLE at this.
Now please state your response about Trump lying about his State of the Union Ratings, or don’t bother posting.
KaiserVonScheiss
LOL. Not gay related.
Xzamilloh
That’s your response? Of course it is. Queerty finally got Trump on a point you can’t refute, so it’s not relevant because it doesn’t involve a literal penis, just a figurative one… that lies about inconsequential shit like this, but we’re supposed to believe he tells the truth on actual important matters.
KaiserVonScheiss
@Xzamilloh
Politicians lie and mislead all the time. This is what they complain about? And is this gay related? No, it isn’t.
kwerty
Kaiser sounds like you support Germany instead of USA. Kaiser seems to be unAmerican. Probably a Russian propaganda tool
Juanjo
The Queen of the Shitheads has decided to grant us the “pleasure” of her country. Also something not gay related.
Xzamilloh
But you should be applauding Queerty, Kaiser… you know, since they’re not confining themselves to the “gay agenda” and are branching beyond those pesky identity politics you and Brody and Jaxton lobby so hard against… because we’re more than just gay men, so it stands to reason that we can take a second from fantasizing about being DP’ed by Odell and David Beckham and look at Trump demonstrating his profound lack of even the most basic of Google-able facts.
DCguy
Look at the desperation of all of Mo Bros screenames.
Every single one is desperate to avoid talking about the fact that Trump obviously lied.
You demonstrate you are a simple troll by making it so obvious you see your job here as being to deflect from the topic.
He BGB
He read a speech somebody else wrote. He probably didn’t even know what he was saying just worried about pronouncing the words. When he reads a speech he looks so happy that he can do it like a big boy on the potty.
Brody
You’re confusing him with Teleprompter-Reader-in-Chief Barack Obama.
Xzamilloh
That’s right, He BGB… I doubt Trump can even read
Just watch this deposition (it’s about an hour so I don’t blame you if you TL;DW it lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqE9Ns-RJM
But it’s absolutely pathetic to watch him
dwes09
All presidents use teleprompters, since they were put into use. However, you would be a fool to deny that speaking extemporaneously Obama was considerably more articulate than Trump, Bush was considerably more articulate than trump. Just look at his comments in Davos, his comments with foreign leaders, and so on…and the reactions of the international community, clearly his intellectual superiors.
All you do when you make posts like yours is demonstrate your own intellectual shortcomings.
Brody
Another day, another hi-larious effort by “the resistance.”
Mick406
I like your style, Brody! Great comments! A man with a brain!!!
“The resistance” was precious!!!!
dwes09
Clearly you both set the intellectual bar awfully low.
“Hi-larious” indeed!
kwerty
Brody seems to be an unAmerican stooge
Brody
Mick –
MAGA!
(and hope you’re surviving the Montana winter)
kwerty –
“UnAmerican”? Is that supposed to get my goat?
Nice try, but I believe the records speak for themselves:
Democrats are anti-American socialists looking to make us a third-world shithole by importing third-world peoples, while Republicans are fighting for its citizens to retain a decent living.
DCguy
Another Day, another 5 screenames from the “Mo Bro” account desperate to either attack lgbts, defend bigots, or deflect from an obvious lie by Trump.
So very telling that you are terrified to talk about the actual topic.
Nahald
a whopping 33% of the things Trump said were false, 21% were mostly false, and 15% were flat out lies. Meanwhile, 4 % of what he said was true. I have a feeling the TRUTH FACTOR of 4% is maybe two points too high.