Unpopular: Biden’s SOTU Got Lowest Ratings For First Official Address In Thirty Years

Someone should tell Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, who falsely claimed 78% of American voters approved of President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, that Biden’s address garnered the lowest ratings for a president’s first official State of the Union address in 30 years.

“More than 38 million Americans tuned in to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the lowest viewing figures for a commander-in-chief’s first SOTU in at least 30 years,” the New York Post reported. “According to Nielsen Media Research, approximately 27.4 million households watched Biden’s hour-long address live on 16 different networks for a 22.4 rating.”

Moving from most recent Sate of the Union addresses toward the past, President Trump’s first SOTU address grabbed a 26.9 rating with an estimated 45.5 million viewers; President Obama’s received a 29.8 rating with 48 million viewers; George W. Bush got a 33.6 rating with 51.8 million viewers and Bill Clinton garnered a 32.9 rating with 45.8 million Americans watching.

Although Biden gave a State of the Union address last April, he had not served in office for a full year so that address is not considered an official State of the Union address; it received a paltry 16.5 rating with 27 million viewers. Various sites referred to the speech as Biden’s first SOTU.– READ MORE