Trump's Superbowl ratings are sad!
by digby
Oopsie. Looks like most of the actual country --- as opposed to his brainwashed cult of angry white guys --- don't want to watch Trump :
President Donald Trump sat down on Sunday afternoon with Fox News for the president’s now-customary pre-Super Bowl interview. The segment with “O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly, which aired during Fox Broadcasting’s pre-game coverage around 4 p.m., drew a 7.8 household rating in Nielsen’s metered market overnight ratings.
Viewership figures will be available later Monday.
Here at last we have a true apples-to-apples comparison for a television event with Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama — or at least as close to one as we’re going to get.
President Obama’s last three sit-downs before the Super Bowl drew overnight household ratings of 9.2, 10.2, and 11.5. His first pre-Super Bowl interview, with NBC’s Matt Lauer in 2009, brought in an average audience of 21.9 million viewers in Nielsen’s final accounting; the overnight household rating for NBC from 4:30 to 5 p.m was a 9.6. The half-hour of 2011’s Super Bowl pre-game coverage — that included O’Reilly’s highly anticipated interview with Obama — attracted an average audience of 17.3 million.
He hasn't tweeted out these numbers for some reason.
Of course they'll say everyone was watching online. But that's silly since the the whole point of having the interview during the Superbowl is because there's a huge built-in TV audience. They just didn't want to ruin their fun by listening to his gross commentary.
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