The American People Have Tuned Out Trump And Largely Ignored His National Address

It looks like Rep. Al Green was right. Trump doesn't have a mandate as polling showed that Democrats and Independents mostly tuned out his address to Congress and viewership was heavily Republican.

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America Mostly Ignores Trump

Donald Trump knows that he is on shaky ground. There was no other reason for Trump to devote so much time early in his speech to false claims that he had a large mandate for his agenda from the voters.

Trump claimed:

 The presidential election of November 5th was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades. We won all seven swing states, giving us an electoral college victory of 312 votes.

We won the popular vote. by big numbers and one counties in our country

and one counties in our country. 2, 700 to 525 on a map that reads almost completely read for Republican.

Trump’s victory was one of the smallest in presidential election history.

Rep. Al Green (D-TX) challenged Trump and told him that he doesn’t have a mandate to the point of Speaker Mike Johnson kicking Green out of the speech.

Trump doesn’t have a mandate. His approval ratings have fallen to the point where experts are suggesting that his whole presidency could collapse, but if you pay attention to mainstream media, Trump’s speech was sold as a major national event.

MSNBC had Rachel Maddow anchoring. CNN brought out its stars, and Fox News was doing what is expected of loyal state media, but the American people were much less interested in Trump than the mainstream press was.

The CBS poll of speech viewers told a different story.

Trump’s speech was overwhelmingly approved of viewers by a margin of 76%-23%, which seems curious until you see who the viewers were.

The viewership for Trump’s speech was 51% Republican, 27% Independent, and 20% Democratic.

The audience for Trump’s speech was overwhelmingly his own supporters, but as we will see below that doesn’t mean that he got the same level of high marks.

Trump’s Audience Did Not Represent The Majority Of The Country