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 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!
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.
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.
its just monkeys singing songs mate, don’t think to hard on it
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 tried, but couldn’t avoid seeing a specific two seconds of it…
I only found out about Nazi Space Karen’s antics cuz of the memes.
The fact that it’s streaming on Disney+, while not surprising, is disgusting.
I doubt even that many watched.
Is that a malnourished child’s hand?
I instinctively looked to see if there was a child hand stuck in his teeth.
There’s a reason he was called the Short Fingered Vulgarian
Maybe that’s the hand that colored the face orange?
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.
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
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.
So the numbers are actually quite a bit lower. All news agencies fluff their numbers, until tax time.
Maybe Musk paid a farm to increase the views.
Yeah my sister was shocked that the I didn’t even watch the highlight reels. Cause I just don’t want to see that fuck. I’m going to be hearing about him and his batshit schemes for the next 4 years and I just don’t want to fucking deal with it right now.
So even his TV numbers are lower than Obama’s?
I didn’t watch a single minute and I didn’t give a single shit about the coverage of it.
Democrats should’ve followed AOC and not even attended.
“It was the BIGGEST TV AUDIENCE EVER!!” - Sean Spicer, probably
But really, how many people still watch TV?
Probably watched online instead
The Democrats handed him power on a golden platter.
He won by less than 1%… hardly handing it to him.
“We wanted to win the election, but the prospect of continuing to be complicit in genocide was just too tempting”
The problem is morons who thought there was any way out of participating in the genocide. Your choices were either Harris who would rubber stamp arms sales to Israel while using them to bring them to the bargaining table in an effort to try to stop the slaughter or Trump who is going to supercharge the genocide until every Arab man woman and child in Gaza is dead.
And both of them are completely beholden to AIPAC who, thanks to Citizens United, dump football fields full of cash into our electoral process. People talk about Russian election interference but Israel’s been interfering in our politics for decades.
Can you all shut up with your genocide support justification bullshit. There is no moral or humanitarian plan behind arming a genocide. You are the Nazis, right next to the Republicans, you don’t give a shit about anyone except yourself, you brush aside the mass murder of millions of people in the last two decades all in an effort just to whitewash your hypocritical political identity. I have heard enough of your disgusting rationalizations for a lifetime. I literally want nothing to do with your society anymore except for maintaining my survival.
who is going to supercharge the genocide until every Arab man woman and child in Gaza is dead.
Palestinian. They’re Palestinian. Not “Arab”. “Israel” uses “Arab” to erase their identity. Notice how you do it too, Mr. “Political Expert”.
The problem is morons who thought there was any way out of participating in the genocide.
You participated. I didn’t. Explain to me how the fuck it falls on me that you voted for someone who committed genocide, and they committed it. What the fuck does that have to do with me? I get roped into responsibility by screaming “fucking stop it” for two years, doing everything in my power to stop it? No, fuck you. You’re responsible. I didn’t pull the trigger. I didn’t fucking cheer on the guy pulling the trigger, or the guy who handed him the gun. I’m back here watching with sheer horror, knowing every single idiotic fucking mistake in your brains that resulted in this. You try to pawn it off on me because of this imaginary fucking difference you’ve been sold between the morality of two people who are both behind a genocide, acting like genocide is an INEVITABILITY for a society. Do you not understand how fucking insane what you just said to me is? Yeah, of course the people in a society that’s committing genocide believe it’s inevitable, because if they had a fucking ounce of sense, their society wouldn’t be committing genocide. 300+ million people, who collectively have the power to do anything, to make their society ANYTHING, but their brains are so fucked and manipulated they think they MUST support genocide, they MUST support their rulers who want to commit genocide, because otherwise it’d be “genocide plus another 5-10%”. And actually try to convince people that the people committing that genocide really have good intentions! Yeah, sure, you’re not fucking brainwashed at all! And anyone who has a moral problem with genocide, well, they must be paid off by Russia or China or Iran, or hey, maybe it’s even Ireland or Portugal. Because every brainwashing narrative needs an enemy figure responsible for trying to propagandize you with the truth.
Learn to read. I was in absolutely no way justifying genocide. But I live in the real world where the consequences of people’s actions exist and not a Fantasyland where good always prevails and fighting the good fight wins in the end. The evil won and it’s in no small part due to people not acknowledging the reality of the situation.
But hey, go sit happy on your soap box, it’s not you and your family being exterminated. It’s not mine or anyone else on these platforms. You know why? Cause Israel has blocked Palestinians from using the internet. These people are going to die in the dark and it’s your fault.
I read what you wrote and responded to it. You are justifying support for genocidal politicians. People like you are the only reason this is happening. Of course you have some fucking excuse, of course you want to blame everyone but yourself. Of course your declaration of compromised morality is prefaced with “I live in the real world”. No, you don’t. You’re a slave to your fears and manipulated by your rulers. You have no idea what accepting reality is like. The power of the people is beaten down into being dictated their political choices by their rulers, and your “solution” is to pick one of the two choices, instead of reclaiming that power. You have chosen subjugation with no vision on how to get out of it, with full knowledge of the mass murder that results.
These people are going to die in the dark and it’s your fault.
The icing on the cake, weaponizing their genocide in a failed attempt to try to make me, what, feel bad? They’re human beings, not a rhetorical object for you to win internet points. This is why I say it’s so clear you don’t care about them at all. If their lives and deaths actually had any meaning to you you would be finding any way to make their genocide STOP. But you quit before you even started.
I skimmed it on YouTube, enough to see grandpavict nodding off at his own event, if he can’t be bothered to tune in, why the fuck would i?
