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.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    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.

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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          5 hours ago

          Here, let me put it in meme speak so you’ll get it. Your 🙏 only 🙏 concept 🙏 of 🙏 a 🙏 difference 🙏 is 🙏 based 🙏 entirely 🙏 on 🙏their 🙏rhetoric🙏and 🙏not 🙏their🙏actions. 🙏 You 🙏 cannot🙏perform🙏an 🙏impartial🙏analysis🙏of🙏politicians🙏based🙏only🙏on🙏their🙏rhetoric🙏because🙏they’re🙏pathological🙏liars.

          And did no one ever teach you better than throwing around the word “retarded”? JFC.