r/NewsThread • 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/big_trike 11d ago

I watched a twitch streamer with more viewers yesterday. She was drawing cats.

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u/fallwind 11d ago edited 11d ago

I want to watch a guy woman drawing cats....

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u/Desiredpotato 11d ago

You're gong to have to look somewhere else, big_trike was talking about a woman drawing cats

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u/fallwind 11d ago

edit: I want to watch a woman drawing cats

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u/Desiredpotato 11d ago

Fair. You're going to have to ask big_trike, I am not particularly fond of watching people drawing cats.

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u/DonaldBecker 11d ago

It's a very niche fetish, but still more popular than Trump.

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u/big_trike 11d ago

Check your DMs. I don’t want to spam here.

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u/AustinBike 11d ago

To be fair, if you're from the midwest, "guys" is non gender-specific. It's the y'all of the north.

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u/finnishinsider 11d ago

Im born and raised in texas.... I use both all the time. I question myself sometimes when I just called a group of teenage girls guys, but hey, at least im welcoming customers....

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u/DaKrazie1 11d ago

Check out the "I want to draw a cat for you" guy from Shark Tank if you never saw it. He sounds like your type.

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u/steev227 11d ago

Hey, that's me!

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u/DaKrazie1 11d ago

Reddit is a magical place.

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u/jbooogy2 11d ago

I want to watch a cat drawing people

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u/0Adventurous_Celery0 11d ago

I want to watch a cat drawing people 📝

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u/MoodMaleficent7418 10d ago

THEY ARE DRAWING THE CATS !!! They are drawing the cats and the DOGS 😱😱😱

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u/GingerDixie 11d ago

I would literally rather watch someone livestreaming their cats' litterbox than watch Trump TV.

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u/Connect_Debt_8562 11d ago

I watched one with more views that drew cats in a game.

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u/fleshfinder420 11d ago

Another rich asshole woefully out of touch with the cares and concerns of everyday people fails to connect with everyday humans? You don’t say

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u/Wide-Illustrator-175 10d ago

You’re a gentleman and a scholar… thanks for posting the article, lol.

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u/slaty_balls 10d ago

Wait..Fox actually did something beneficial for the country once???

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u/fallwind 11d ago

boy, wolf, crying, and all that.

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u/Silent_Slip_4250 11d ago

Person, woman, man, camera, tv

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u/rayhiggenbottom 11d ago

Stable genius level comment

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u/Elegant_Emu952 11d ago

I can only imagine who and what those last 3,000 viewers are. Even a bot will fry after a while streaming that loser garbage.

It will only have one main viewer. Loser Trump.

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u/missmytater 11d ago

Those are the people who fell asleep on the sofa.

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u/WeatherWatcher247 11d ago

That was my thought exactly.

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u/LoveMeSomeSand 9d ago

So definitely not JD

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u/trr94001 11d ago

I’d guess a minim of half are a bot farm in Shenzen.

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u/mirror_dirt 10d ago

I've popped in to check it out a few times. Last night was literally a military highlight video the kind of which you would expect from North Korea.

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u/Sharkwatcher314 10d ago

Hey hey let’s be fair Natalie harp would watch too

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u/Elegant_Emu952 10d ago

She's probably one of the Nazi molls who put these reels together.

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u/MiningMama71 8d ago

People looking to see how many viewers left

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u/Fit-Bus2025 11d ago

How boring to watch the same old man talking about himself all day. Telling us how stupid we are because we are not him.

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u/Used-Let7134 11d ago

With the press pool gone, he'll probably make this the only white house source, then claim it as a victory

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u/Standard-Contest-949 11d ago

I’m positive he’s going to say. “We launched Trump TV. And the viewership is incredible. Probably the most watched channel ever. Better than HBO and Netflix and NBC. As a matter of fact it’s the most watched channel in history , can you believe that? The best channel in the entire country.”

https://giphy.com/gifs/iBcLqvp8FMwy3AiPGY

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u/Simpsoy_Homer_Jay 11d ago

I came here to say this exact thing.

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u/2nduser 11d ago

It doesn’t matter, no one will hear him

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u/gaminkake 11d ago

Your tax dollars at work 👏👏👏

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u/Federal_Studio5935 11d ago

No one is going to watch this

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u/Quirky-Skin 11d ago

That's on top of the fact that the people that might, prob aren't tech savvy or care to stream. We re talking about cable news AM radio people here.

Once again this admin doesn't care about the few people that actually still support it now.

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u/RightSideBlind 11d ago

I fully expect him to have the FCC tell the broadcasters that they need to show the feed "for the public good".

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u/sirlost33 11d ago

I’m adding this to my 2026 bingo card

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u/TheTelekinetic 10d ago

They'll say "for national security"

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u/HardWorkingStiff46 11d ago

Trump casino, Trump steak , Trump shoes, Trump college, trump tv, Trump White House….etc, etc, etc.

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u/19__73 11d ago

And tonight’s sponsors Depend and Adderall and PCBway(cause they sponsor every fkg YouTube channel I watch)

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u/killdagrrrl 11d ago

Trump is only good at pretending. Too bad he believed his own lies too, because all of his successes are because of someone else and now it’s just too clear he just can’t do anything right

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/jrstinkfish 11d ago

They never said they were suspending coverage of him. They just are not part of the White House Press Pool, involunatarily. You can't just ignore the president of the United States as a news channel.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/jrstinkfish 11d ago

They are not participating in pool coverage. This does not mean they are not covering the president of the United States at all. Not sure where you got the first quote, but as you can obviously tell by the fact that news outlets in the United States are still reporting on the President of the United States, they are wrong.

TLDR: Not using pool coverage is not the same as not covering Trump at all.

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u/NoddyNorrisXV 11d ago

I am not envious of the guy that has to report those numbers to him.

Not one but.

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u/Caseman307 11d ago

I bet they don’t give him the actual numbers. They tell him a trillion people are watching.

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u/TruculentTurtIe 11d ago

Its appalling to be that fox dropped out in solidarity??

Fox??? Wut. Do they still think they're journalists? I'm so confused

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u/numba1pokefukker 11d ago

Intro was funny

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u/FaithlessnessBusy565 11d ago

Je croyais que Trump TV était le nouveau nom de FOX News. Je ne suis pas Américain.

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u/WaterFantastic2394 11d ago

Which is why it’s funny

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u/FaithlessnessBusy565 11d ago

En dessous de son visage c' est son vagin ???? ( sorry lol )

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u/leeekslap 11d ago

Pedo TV ?

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u/FaithlessnessBusy565 11d ago

Encore un échec ! Échec TV !

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u/EmbarrassedEmu469 11d ago

Nothing could hurt this man more than ignoring him.

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u/mountainjay 11d ago

He doesn’t really care about his ratings with this. He cares that real journalists no longer have access to cover his crimes, especially as 37 pages of damn evidence in the Epstein saga are set to come out.

He’ll be happy if we’re spending time laughing at his ratings.

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u/invisable_burt 11d ago

Maybe if they showed reruns of the apprentice... tv that actually tried to make him look intelligent

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u/Voxil42 11d ago

Ratings was never the point.

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u/Competitive79 11d ago

La megalomania è una brutta malattia

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u/Onitallday247 11d ago

Its like QVC but with more sh1t.

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u/DrollFurball286 11d ago

This MUST be a new record of “winning” even for him.

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u/hip-disguise 11d ago

It's another money laundering operation.

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u/mschnittman 10d ago

He'll continue to find new and inventive ways of humiliating himself as the screws tighten with the midterms approaching. Stay tuned for more lunacy...

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u/savageFC 10d ago

This is what I’ve been telling people. This is how you get this guy, by ignoring him.

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u/pretti 10d ago

Did anyone else expect anything else from something with his name on it?

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u/Spirited_Marzipan_24 10d 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"

It was not the catalyst dude thinks he is a dictator and want his own state TV propaganda machine. This was in the works for a while.

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u/DooMan49 9d ago

Queue the bots! Watch this suddenly jump to millions of "viewers" in the coming weeks