Trump's State of the Union address draws 32.6 million viewers, marking smallest audience yet

Over 32.6 cardinal viewers watched President Trump code the federation connected Tuesday night, according to Nielsen data.

It’s some the smallest assemblage Trump has received for the yearly code to a associated league of Congress, and the longest State of the Union code successful caller history.

This was the Ppresident’s archetypal State of the Union code of his 2nd term. Previously, his addresses scored 45.5 cardinal successful 2018, 46.8 cardinal successful 2019 and 37.1 cardinal successful 2020, the Nielsen information show.

This year’s code clocked successful astatine 107 minutes, topping the erstwhile grounds acceptable by President Clinton successful 2000.

Facing debased support ratings, Trump played up affirmative economical numbers, immoderate of which were misstated, and the administration’s assertive crackdown connected undocumented immigrants, drafting polarized reactions successful the chamber.

Trump besides recognized the Men’s Olympic hockey team, which won its archetypal golden medal since 1980 connected Sunday with its triumph against Canada, and a fig of different guests attended the address, including the widow of right-wing activistic Charlie Kirk and Paramount Skydance’s CEO David Ellison.

The U.S. Olympic men’s crystal hockey squad arrives for the State of the Union code .

(Kenny Holston / Pool, Getty Images)

There were 15 networks that televised the speech. Fox News had the largest assemblage with 9.1 cardinal viewers. ABC was 2nd with 5.1 million, followed by NBC‘s 3.6 million, CBS’ 3.3 million, MS NOW’s 2.4 million, CNN’s 2.2 million, and the Fox broadcast network’s 2.1 million.