Former President Donald Trump slammed the 93rd Oscars on Tuesday for its support of the Democratic Party and demanded the show revert its name.
Trump criticized Sunday’s program for failing to use the name “the Academy Awards” and said the nomenclature has “the lowest Television Ratings in recorded history.” The Oscars, however, used “Academy Awards” to describe its most recent program, according to its website.
“What used to be called The Academy Awards, and now is called the ‘Oscars’ — a far less important and elegant name — had the lowest Television Ratings in recorded history, even much lower than last year, which set another record low,” Trump wrote. “If they keep with the current ridiculous formula, it will only get worse — if that’s possible. Go back 15 years, look at the formula they then used, change the name back to THE ACADEMY AWARDS, don’t be so politically correct and boring, and do it right.”
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The former president railed against the attendees for their support of the “Democrat Party” and demanded the show employ a “GREAT HOST.”
“ALSO, BRING BACK A GREAT HOST,” Trump said. “These television people spend all their time thinking about how to promote the Democrat Party, which is destroying our Country, and cancel Conservatives and Republicans. That formula certainly hasn’t worked very well for The Academy!”
Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, the co-directors of Two Distant Strangers, a movie focused on police brutality, took the stage to accept their award and said law enforcement “disproportionately” kills black people.
“Today, the police will kill three people, and tomorrow, the police will kill three people, and the day after that, the police will kill three people,” Free said. “Because on average in America, the police will kill three people a day, which amounts to about 1,000 people a year. Those people disproportionately happen to be black people.”
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Roughly 9.85 million people watched the Academy Awards on Sunday evening, which is a nearly 60% drop compared to 2020, according to Variety. It pulled in a 1.9 rating for adults in the 18-49 age demographic, a 64.2% drop from the year prior. The year 2020 previously garnered the lowest ratings for the awards show, pulling in 23.6 million viewers, while 2019 brought 29.6 million viewers.
