The Nielsen Company says an estimated 24.6 million people watched coverage of President Donald Trump's second inauguration.

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.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    We’re strongly considering West Europe. We have a few contacts there that might alleviate the move. I’ve been holding out because I don’t believe in running from Nazis, and I’m still conflicted about it. I know that any meaningful action I could take would land me in jail forever, or worse, and I don’t want my kids to get the boxcars. It might be better for my family to just immigrate.

    I’d love to immigrate to South America, but it looks like it’s a bit more difficult for us than West Europe, interestingly.

    • Metz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      I can understand if you don’t want to give up your homeland. I would only leave Germany as an absolute last resort either. Then i would probably try to flee up north to the Scandinavian countries.

      But I have to say, looking at the situation in the States, without wanting to sound overly dramatic, there is a good chance to think it’s already reached the point of no return and best is to gtfo now. I mean, at least from the outside perspective, it looks really really bad.

      • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Thanks, the outside perspective is useful for breaking out of being the frog in the boiling pot. I’ll look into it more seriously.