By Molly Goddard
11:45am PST, Mar 7, 2025
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President
Donald Trump massively drew in viewership for his most recent State of the Union address.
According to Nielsen figures, the current commander-in-chief's Tuesday, March 4, speech to the nation had roughly 36.6 million people watching compared to former President
Joe Biden's 32.2 million during his final talk before leaving the Oval Office on March 7, 2024.
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Per Nielsen findings via
TheWrap, Trump's 99-minute
address saw a high of 37.9 million citizens tune in between 9:45 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. ET, a — 13 percent increase compared to Biden's.
Despite the major win for the Republican, the stats were down from his previous speeches during his first term in 2017 (47.74 million), 2019 (45.6 million) and 2020 (46.79 million).
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During Trump's big moment, 5.7 percent of watchers were ages 18 to 34, 20.5 percent were 35 to 54 and 70.7 percent were 55 and older.
Fox News also racked up a larger audience than when Biden was in the White House.
As for the former vice president, research showed that out of his viewers, 5 percent were aged 18 to 34, 19 percent of viewers were 35 to 54 and 74 percent of viewers were aged 55 and older. Despite the Democrat being in power at the time,
MSNBC and CNN's ratings went down with both administrations.
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Fox News scored 10.7 million viewers for Trump's address — up 84 percent from last year. CNN and MSNBC raked in 1.9 million viewers.
During the businessman's speech for the joint session of
Congress, he touched upon tariffs, DEI, domestic policy and foreign affairs, amongst other pressing issues.
"America's momentum is back," the former star of
The Apprentice boasted.
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"Over the past six weeks, I have signed nearly 100 Executive Orders and taken more than 400 Executive Actions to restore COMMON SENSE, safety, optimism and wealth all across our wonderful land," Trump claimed.
While the president made sweeping statements about the nation's alleged progress, the opposition party made their
disapproval known.
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Democratic Representative from Texas
Al Green was ejected from the proceedings after he interrupted Trump's speech and refused to sit down.
On Thursday, March 6, the House voted to censure the left-winger over his
outburst. "I want us to have proper decorum. I want us to maintain really the great tradition of this institution," Speaker
Mike Johnson said of the situation. "And these things do damage to it and I'm sorry that it happened."
