Summary
Donald Trump’s second inauguration drew an estimated 24.6 million television viewers, the lowest audience for a presidential inauguration since Barack Obama’s second in 2013.
Viewership declined compared to Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration (33.8 million) and Trump’s first in 2017 (30.6 million).
Fox News led coverage, averaging 10.3 million viewers during the swearing-in and speech, while other networks saw smaller audiences.
Is that a malnourished child’s hand?
We watched just to see if we needed to throw the bug-out bag in the car and go.
Did you throw the bug-out bag in the car and go? You can’t leave us hanging like that
Nah, I wouldn’t be on Lemmy if we had ;)
Go where?
Nice try, fed boy
As a German, I can say that some more left-leaning like-minded friends would be very welcome here.
Anyone else not only not watch, but actively avoided any possibility of even catching a glimpse of it?
I would rather smear human shit in my eyes than watch it.
I tried, but couldn’t avoid seeing a specific two seconds of it…
If I hear his droning groggly voice going off about some fake shit, I usually snap and tell whoever to shut that shit off. It’s unbearable. The guy sounds how I imagine anyone would after a 40+ years of Quarter Pounders and Diet Coke, he’s probably way over his fair share in carbon emissions from his diet alone.
I thought I could tolerate reading quotes of him but it’s a mess every time. Whatever schools he attended failed him greatly.
I feel like I’m being mansplained to by the stupidest man in existence. Which works since apparently Trump’s executive order makes me a woman now.
And it’s even worse when he reads from the autocue. It’s like he talks himself to sleep, he loses energy after speaking more than 2 bigly words in a row. That’s probably why he always interjects himself with some dumb catchphrase to wake himself up.
LALALALALA!! I know I have to listen to journalist people summarize the shit he’s done because it’s the reality we need to oppose. But nobody who isn’t paid for it should have to listen to that mosquito whine.
Maybe Musk paid a farm to increase the views.
Willingly having to look at that Orange piece of shit. No thank you.
Also listening to his voice. It’s like nails on a chalkboard. But worse.
Nails on a chalkboard just sends shivers through me. The mandarin mussolini’s speach makes me a threat to my environment and myself.
I saw that shit on Disney plus.
Immediately cancelled my sub.
Kids can have Bluey from the warships on the ocean 🦜☠️.I’d like to support content creators. They work hard, deliver their dream. And early on, a large delivery network is desirable! But if that provider enshitifies beyond my threshold, they are dead to me.
So set sail!
Hulu advertised this today. Like… What the fuck? How much did the oompa loopa pay you, Disney? They know we don’t want to watch this.
its just monkeys singing songs mate, don’t think to hard on it
The fact that it’s streaming on Disney+, while not surprising, is disgusting.
I watched some bits. Saw a few random senators spouting LLM-generated soundbites that basically meant fuck all but a thinly-veiled attempt to get their plastic faces on the news
Over and over and over and over again. Maximum five words per sentence
Switched it off before the orange chimpanzee even opened that weird sphincter on his face
Metrics are skewed. Asmongold’s Twitch re-upload on YouTube reacting to Twitter blips had like half a million views alone.
I doubt even that many watched.
It was unlikely to make for scintillating television.
Unless somebody Guy Fawkes’d the lot of them, it’s just hours of footage of people signing bits of paper.
Right? It seems like a lot.
I didn’t know it was on Disney+. That’s interesting. It really shows how the TV landscape is shifting away from broadcast.
Fuck Trump, but I think it sorta makes sense for the new “networks” to carry live events like this as we move to all-digital.
Back in the day, when over the air was the main option, it was good that things like this were put in front of people. I still think things like this should be put in front of people.
And I’ll reiterate: fuck Trump.
Just wait. There will be mergers and buyouts like you have t seen in your lifetime the next 4 years. Verizon/Comcast/Meta, Disney(abc, Hulu, ESPN, Pixar), Twitter/Fox/tiktok, etc.
AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe’s
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
So even his TV numbers are lower than Obama’s?
First time seeing him swearing in. Look how small his hand is
“It was the BIGGEST TV AUDIENCE EVER!!” - Sean Spicer, probably
But really, how many people still watch TV?
My source of alternative facts says it was the biglyest audience in the history of everything.
