Last Updated on March 8, 2024
President Donald J. Trump has a big upper hand over Joe Biden when it comes to State of the Union TV ratings in a re-election year.
Overnight Nielsen ratings numbers published by TVLine show over 32.2 million viewers for Biden’s State of the Union. How many of those viewers were hate-watching it? The State of the Union gets a pretty big boost due to airing on numerous channels, and Fox News was the most-watched channel for the State of the Union, ahead of all the broadcast networks including ABC. Presumably, Fox News’ audience was not vibing with Joe Biden.
In his re-election year of 2020, President Donald J. Trump garnered about 37.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen. Trump also led all social media users in engagements during that speech, with his account racking up 1.3 million engagements while he was speaking.
Here’s a fascinating statistic: 74 percent of the voters were 55 and over, and only 5 percent of the audience for the speech was in the 18-to-34 demographic.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson stood up behind Joe Biden during the State of the Union to show solidarity with Israel, marking the first time that Johnson stood during Biden’s State of the Union speech.
In Biden’s rambling address, the Democrat demagogue appeared to slur his words and he certainly did not inspire the crowd very much. A lot of social media commentary was hostile to Biden’s speech, considering the chutzpah of a guy trying to assure people of the strength of the Union when he is allowing a full-scale migrant invasion over the U.S. southern border. The safety of the American people is existentially threatened. So no, the state of our Union is not strong. That was apparent in watching Biden strain to deliver a cringe speech.
Meanwhile, President Donald J. Trump declared during the speech: “THE DRUGS ARE WEARING OFF!,” appearing to accuse Biden of getting pumped up with performance-enhancing narcotics to get him through an extended speaking engagement.
Steve Nikoui, the father of fallen Marine Kareem Nikoui, interrupted Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday night. The man’s son, Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, was among 13 U.S. military servicemen who died during Joe Biden’s disastrous “Abbey Gate” pullout from Afghanistan. A terrorist attack felled the American troops at a Kabul airport named for Hamid Karzai, the Bush administration’s puppet leader of Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion. The Capitol Police confirmed that they arrested Nikoui.
According to Axios, Nikoui was actually charged with a misdemeanor count of “”crowding, obstructing or incommoding,” which is likely going to upset a whole lot of patriots and military families.
“For the last three SOTU speeches, Joe Biden REFUSED to say the names of the 13 U.S. servicemembers who were killed by his disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. I couldn’t support this effort more,” Brian Mast stated after Nikoui got escorted out.
“The Sergeant at Arms is holding my State of the Union guest for yelling at @POTUS in protest because his son was killed in action at the Abbey Gate due to Biden’s incompetence. So much for the right to petition our government for the redress of grievances,” Mast tweeted.
Social media comments on the Right have been overwhelmingly sympathetic to Nikoui, especially considering the aggressiveness with which he got escorted out.
Previously, prior to the protest, Mast tweeted: “I am honored to have Steve Nikoui as my guest to #SOTU. He is the father of LCpl. Kareem Nikoui, who was KIA due to Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. @JoeBiden may try to turn the page on Afghanistan after his incompetence cost American lives, but NOT ON MY WATCH.”
Steve Nikoui previously appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News: