Biden's poor TV ratings against Trump is exactly what this administration wants
By Joe Concha, Opinion Contributor — 05/02/21 05:00 PM EDT
The 45th president was fairly obsessed with ratings. Given Donald Trump's experience as a TV reality-show star, that is not terribly surprising.
Between Feb. 20, 2020, and Dec. 6, 2020, Trump tweeted 44 times about TV ratings, according to Fast Company, or four times more often than about wearing a mask during that same span.
Trump also quote-tweeted this from The New York Times on Mar. 29, 2020, a time when the country was shut down and when confusion and fear about the novel coronavirus dominated the minds of many Americans: "President Trump is a ratings hit. Since reviving the daily White House briefing Mr. Trump and his coronavirus updates have attracted an average audience of 8.5 million on cable news ... ."
Understandably, this created tremendous and deserved backlash against the president at the time, as COVID-19 cases and deaths soared. But this was simply Trump's reflexive DNA dating back to before he was president, which carried over to after he started calling the White House home, literally on Day 1. "It was the most-watched inauguration in history, period!!" White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters the day after Inauguration Day on Jan. 22, 2017, in a statement from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
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