President Trump’s inauguration final week set viewership data with an estimated 80.7 million viewers, the President introduced.
The earlier file is held by Ronald Reagan, who had an estimated 41.8 million tv viewers for his first inauguration. Trump practically doubled this quantity.
Trump’s inauguration ceremony was initially deliberate for the West Entrance of the U.S. Capitol however was moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda as a result of frigid climate circumstances. Regardless of the restricted attendance within the Rotunda, hundreds packed into the Capital One Area in Washington, DC, and attended watch events throughout the nation to observe the historic ceremony.
Nearly each seat within the 20,000-seat area was stuffed.
The Gateway Pundit reported on President Trump’s once-in-a-generation inaugural address, the place he reestablished America as the house of greatness and freedom, telling his plans to repair all the destruction prompted over the past 4 years. It was his biggest speech ever.
In line with knowledge from Streams Charts, “Each YouTube and Twitch set new peak viewership data” in the course of the inauguration.
The information additionally reveals that “Due to the inauguration protection, the News & Politics part on YouTube set new all-time viewership data. Through the ceremony, peak viewership within the part hit 9,691,679 with 2,727 channels streaming on the peak. Each of those numbers turned data for the class.”
Media scores agency Nielson reports that viewership peaked on more and more unpopular cable tv at 34.4 million viewers. Leftist media retailers are citing figures of an estimated 26.4 million viewers from Nielson, which analyzes simply 15 cable TV networks that aired protection of the inauguration, to assert that Trump’s inauguration truly obtained much less views than Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021. These claiming that Biden’s inauguration had greater viewership than Trump’s are the identical individuals who nonetheless need you to imagine that Joe Biden was the most well-liked president in historical past and that he obtained 81 million votes.
Nonetheless, this can be a new period the place thousands and thousands, particularly Millenials and Gen Z, have deserted cable for streaming platforms.
Trump recorded practically 37 million views on the reside stream posted to his X account:
The sixtieth Presidential Inauguration Ceremony https://t.co/kTB4w2VCdI
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2025
President Trump mentioned, “An estimated 80.7 million viewers watched the President’s Inauguration,” which can be an underestimate while you have in mind different reside streams on X and platforms that enable reside streaming, like Rumble and Getter.
President Trump introduced the Information on Reality Social:
President Donald J. Trump’s Historic Inauguration Units Viewership Document
Information from Streams Charts reveals that as a result of protection of President Trump’s Inauguration, the Information part of YouTube set a brand new “All Time Viewership Document” with 9.6 million viewers.
Moreover, the Inaugural Ceremony stream on President Donald J. Trump’s X account obtained a surprising 36.7 million views.
Together with TV viewership, an estimated 80.7 million viewers watched the President’s Inauguration, which beats the earlier file of 42 million viewers with Ronald Reagan’s Inauguration in 1981.
