Headline Roundup • February 1st, 2018
Trump's State of the Union Ratings
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In a tweet, President Trump claimed the largest audience ever tuned in for his State of the Union address. That's not true.
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than 48 hours after delivering the State of the Union, President Trump undercut that real success with incredibly silly overstatement, claiming his TV viewership was “the highest number in history.”
On Thursday morning President Donald Trump said something that wasn't true. "Thank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech," he tweeted. "45.6 million people watched, the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in. Delivered from the heart!"
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