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.
I actually unplugged the TVs in the gym
Why the fuck were they on that channel?
My local gym had all the tvs near the treadmills set to various political news entertainment stations (fox, CNN, etc.).
I typically sat in front of fox and let the ragebait fuel my running. It’s interesting how emotions can make you exercise better.
He didn’t say it on which channel it was.
Don’t worry, trump will lie about this too
So the numbers are actually quite a bit lower. All news agencies fluff their numbers, until tax time.
Is that a malnourished child’s hand?
There’s a reason he was called the Short Fingered Vulgarian
Maybe that’s the hand that colored the face orange?
We watched just to see if we needed to throw the bug-out bag in the car and go.
Hey just a word of advice, if shit hits the fan unless there is an immediate threat its generally better to stay in place. Even if folks dont know you they may know of ypur car, house, general sounds and what not which will possibly make them more likely to offer aid if needed. Also folks are gonna be a lot more wary of outsiders in times of trouble.
Noted!
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?
As a German, I can say that some more left-leaning like-minded friends would be very welcome here.
We’re strongly considering West Europe. We have a few contacts there that might alleviate the move. I’ve been holding out because I don’t believe in running from Nazis, and I’m still conflicted about it. I know that any meaningful action I could take would land me in jail forever, or worse, and I don’t want my kids to get the boxcars. It might be better for my family to just immigrate.
I’d love to immigrate to South America, but it looks like it’s a bit more difficult for us than West Europe, interestingly.
I can understand if you don’t want to give up your homeland. I would only leave Germany as an absolute last resort either. Then i would probably try to flee up north to the Scandinavian countries.
But I have to say, looking at the situation in the States, without wanting to sound overly dramatic, there is a good chance to think it’s already reached the point of no return and best is to gtfo now. I mean, at least from the outside perspective, it looks really really bad.
Thanks, the outside perspective is useful for breaking out of being the frog in the boiling pot. I’ll look into it more seriously.
I don’t speak German, can I still come?
Of course! And i think German is not that difficult anyway. Since English is a Germanic language, it’s relatively easy for many people who already know it to learn some German.
I’m afraid the main problem would be the housing crisis. e.g. i’ve been without my own place for over 2 years. Have to sleep on a couch at a relative’s small appartement. I basically occupy the living room.
I hope this problem can be solved over the next years. Of course, the right-wingers promise exactly that. And their solution is “get everyone out who is not like us”.
I speak French, so many I can find a place on the border! The afd’s solution won’t work though.
Oh, i had a very nice french neighbour at my old place. She was singing french chanson in a café i was a regular in. There was also a Franco-German friends’ association that met there from time to time.
Especially in southern Germany (but actually almost everywhere), French or French-speaking people are quite widely represented and very welcome!
Wunderbar
Nice try, fed boy
Anyone else not only not watch, but actively avoided any possibility of even catching a glimpse of it?
I tried. It was the Nazi salute that broke through for me. I just couldn’t ignore it… I didn’t actually see it until watching the rerun of Monday’s Daily Show last night, but I saw the still shots.
I only found out about Nazi Space Karen’s antics cuz of the memes.
I would rather smear human shit in my eyes than watch it.
Actually watching it would be the equivalent
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.
This really is the perfect way to put it, and I feel like it even comes from a similar place of “I’m better than you so I know better than you” smarmyness.
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!
I saw that shit on Disney plus.
What, and I mean this will all my soul, the actual fuck?
I don’t give a single wet shit who the president is, why in the chocolate covered fuck is a streaming media content platform pushing that shit? Really glad I never gave them any money, and the subscription we had always a friend’s.
They also live streamed the debates, so this isn’t unusual for Disney. I think they have some live channels as well, so it probably falls under that portion of the service.
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
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.
Nah every inauguration is inane drivel not worth anyones time, its solidly in the F tier unless someone gets shot. If they want to make it more interesting have them cut off one of their fingers on their dominant hand as part of the oath, if they arent able to do it themselves someone else will chop off the hand with an axe.
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.
Metrics are skewed. Asmongold’s Twitch re-upload on YouTube reacting to Twitter blips had like half a million views alone.
So even his TV numbers are lower than Obama’s?
