President Trump’s inauguration final week set viewership information with an estimated 80.7 million viewers, the President introduced.
The earlier report is held by Ronald Reagan, who had an estimated 41.8 million tv viewers for his first inauguration. Trump almost 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 consequence of frigid climate circumstances. Regardless of the restricted attendance within the Rotunda, hundreds packed into the Capital One Enviornment 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 deal with, the place he reestablished America as the house of greatness and freedom, telling his plans to repair all the destruction induced during the last 4 years. It was his best speech ever.
In line with knowledge from Streams Charts, “Each YouTube and Twitch set new peak viewership information” through the inauguration.
The information additionally reveals that “Due to the inauguration protection, the Information & Politics part on YouTube set new all-time viewership information. Through the ceremony, peak viewership within the part hit 9,691,679 with 2,727 channels streaming on the peak. Each of those numbers grew to become information for the class.”
Media scores agency Nielson experiences that viewership peaked on more and more unpopular cable tv at 34.4 million viewers. Leftist media shops 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 really obtained much less views than Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021. These claiming that Biden’s inauguration had larger viewership than Trump’s are the identical individuals who nonetheless need you to consider 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 almost 37 million views on the dwell 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 whenever you take note of different dwell streams on X and platforms that permit dwell streaming, like Rumble and Getter.
President Trump introduced the Information on Reality Social:
President Donald J. Trump’s Historic Inauguration Units Viewership Document
Knowledge from Streams Charts reveals that as a consequence 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 report of 42 million viewers with Ronald Reagan’s Inauguration in 1981.
