Trump’s speech has climbed another 4 million from earlier numbers today, putting him within 5 million of Obama’s address to Congress in 2009:
VARIETY – According to Nielsen’s final official tally, Trump’s speech drew 47.74 million viewers from approximately 9 to 10:15 p.m. across 11 networks. Those 11 networks counted by Nielsen were ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Univision, PBS, CNN, Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and NBC Universo.
President Obama’s first address pulled in an audience of 52.37 million people across the four broadcast networks, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, and Univision — a difference of about 9%. The audience for President George W. Bush’s first address, at 39.79 million, was overshadowed by the State of the Union Address he delivered in 2003, which brought in 62.06 million viewers.
Earlier today we reported that Trump’s address drew 43.4 million.
Here’s the past SOTU speeches for the last couple of decades that I picked up from Wikipedia:
