Trump’s mysterious ratings mixup

Published February 1, 2018 6:14pm ET



President Trump tweeted about his State of the Union address on Thursday, claiming that “45.6 million people watched, the highest number in history.”

As my colleague Philip Wegmann noted, the estimated 45.6 million viewers (per Nielsen) is not the highest number in history, nor is it even the highest number for Trump, whose joint address to Congress last year even had a bigger audience.

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