Following his State of the Union address, Donald Trump has moved back into the alternate reality he occupied immediately after the inauguration: his crowd/television viewing audience was bigger than anyone else’s. Even though it definitely wasn’t.
False.
In total, President Trump’s address drew 45.6 million viewers across broadcast and cable, according to the final Nielsen tally. That number does not include those who live-streamed the speech.
Obama’s first State of the Union in 2010 drew 48 million viewers across broadcast and cable, while his first address before a joint session of Congress in February 2009 drew 52.4 million viewers.
“The highest number in history” is the new “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.”
Also, that delivered from the heart thing? I think we all know that when he spits rage and hate it’s coming much more sincerely from his heart than when he reads from a teleprompter about how “As long as we have confidence in our values, faith in our citizens, and trust in our God, we will not fail.”