Democrats and liberals took to social media all day yesterday to try and get people to not watch the State of the Union address. They begged and pleaded with people not to watch. Ratings for the State of the Union were low on CNN and MSNBC, yet 47.7 million ended up watching. That was the most watched State of the Union address since Obama’s first in 2010. Obama’s last State of the Union in 2016 only get 31 million viewers. Looks like the media narrative isn’t working too well these days.
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An estimated 45.6 million people tuned in to watch President Donald Trump deliver his State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.
While coverage varied by network, 12 aired live coverage from approximately 9:00 p.m. ET to 10:30 p.m. ET.
In terms of the social nature of the address, the State of the Union 2018 was the No. 1 most social program on Jan. 30, 2018. There were 21 million total interactions across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter about the State of the Union 2018. Of the 21 million total interactions measured, 41% occurred on Facebook, 7% occurred on Instagram and 52% occurred on Twitter.
The most social moment on Twitter occurred at 10:04 p.m. ET with 68 thousand interactions as viewers Tweeted in the minutes following Trump’s four pillar plan on immigration reform. The top hashtags on Twitter were: #sotu, #stateoftheunion, #maga and #stateofourunion.
Congrats liberal Democrats on another wasted and failed effort. At least you tried.
Source: Nielsen