President Trump is still struggling with the problem of audience size.
The commander-in-chief erroneously touted Thursday that the 45.6 million people who watched his first State of the Union was the most-watched ever.
Trump twittered,
“Thank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech,” noting his favorite Fox News lead with 11.7 million viewers. “Delivered from the heart!”
But television ratings tracker Nielsen Company announced Wednesday that Trump’s State of the Union had 2 million fewer viewers than President Obama’s first State of the Union address eight years earlier.
The notoriously ratings-focused President’s first State of the Union had 2 million fewer TVs tuned in than his joint address to Congress in February 2017.
Trump reportedly fumed last winter when photos of his inauguration showed a significantly sparser crowd than Obama’s first swearing in eight years before.
The White House sent newly minted press secretary Sean Spicer to bash the media in his first news conference for reporting on the crowd size.
