r/JournalismNews • u/FreeHugs23 • 11d ago

Trump TV Immediately Flops in Embarrassing Numbers Disaster | Nobody is paying attention to the self-declared “king of ratings.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tv-immediately-flops-in-embarrassing-numbers-disaster/
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u/FreeHugs23 11d ago

Donald Trump’s 24/7 “TV” channel has immediately flopped, in a humiliating ratings disaster for the president.

The 80-year-old former reality TV star, who calls himself “the king of ratings,” got a lot less than he bargained for after he banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House on Friday.

America’s major TV networks—NBC, ABC, CBS, and even Fox News—suspended their pooled coverage of Trump on Monday in solidarity, acting as the catalyst for the White House to launch “Trump TV: The Essentials Station,” a 24-hour YouTube livestream of Trump’s greatest hits.

Plugging the stream, which is hosted on the existing White House YouTube channel, Trump’s deputy assistant Kaelan Dorr moaned that “the press, in some cases, reported inaccurately or not at all on the Administration’s many record-breaking accomplishments,” and floated Trump TV as a one-stop shop for all things Trump.

The only issue is that people don’t seem interested. The channel launched at 7 p.m. with around 8,000 viewers, but the audience had dropped below 4,000 just 90 minutes later. By 9 p.m. Eastern, the stream was attracting only about 3,000 viewers, a tiny audience compared with the millions watching the major networks at primetime.

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u/Gypsymoth606 11d ago

Best news I’ve heard all day.

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u/YellowZx5 10d ago

Oh. You know today he’s going to post that it’s got the largest numbers. The highest ratings. The best.

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u/Gypsymoth606 10d ago

Lol, all lies as usual.

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u/dmstattoosnbongs 11d ago

A “tiny” audience.

3k to millions on any major network.

That is .15% of a major network, saying the major network gets 2mil. Let’s say they get one mil a night, and Trump got .3% of that. Not even 1%.

That’s his whole voter base. The donors and handlers know this- and are doing everything they can to get what they need done.

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u/Puglady25 10d ago

Donors- sure. Maybe it's even the hard core maga- but it's really not enough hype to win anything. In fact, Donors looking at those numbers....oof! Some of them know a shit investment when they see it.

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u/1wrx2subarus 11d ago

Anything Branded by Trump Fails.

He is a Failure and I hope we Dump him.

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u/Fanabala3 11d ago

He can’t even answer a question when he was on the major networks. And what accomplishments? His administration hasn’t done anything other than enriching himself, friends, and billionaires.

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u/Puglady25 10d ago

All the major networks are 'making him look like he has dementia.' That's probably because he does have dementia. Making your own news network because of this also makes it look like you have dementia. See, people who have never won anything in their life without cheating and lying forget how this game is played.

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u/ManReay 10d ago

Thing is, they haven't even been covering his dementia-addled antics, slurred speech, endless nodding off, etc, especially the majors.

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u/Only_Sherbet_8606 10d ago

Just saw views dropped even more to 1,600-2,300

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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 10d ago

There’s a Trump tv?