{"id":490897,"date":"2026-02-26T04:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490897\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:37:18","slug":"trumps-state-of-the-union-drew-28-million-viewers-on-major-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490897\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s State Of The Union Drew 28 Million Viewers On Major Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/state-of-the-union\/\" id=\"auto-tag_state-of-the-union\" data-tag=\"state-of-the-union\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State of the Union<\/a> address drew around 28 million viewers across eight major news networks, according to preliminary data from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nielsen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nielsen\" data-tag=\"nielsen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nielsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe final numbers will be available on Thursday. Last year, when the president delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress, the final data showed that he drew almost 32 million viewers across those networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPer the early data from Trump\u2019s Tuesday\u2019s speech, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fox-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fox-news\" data-tag=\"fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> topped all networks in total viewers, drawing 9.1 million. ABC News was the top broadcaster, with 5.1 million. Other networks included NBC News with 3.6 million, CBS News with 3.3 million, MS NOW with 2.4 million, CNN with 2.2 million, Fox Broadcasting with 2.1 million and Fox Business with 269,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/gallery\/donald-trump-celebrity-endorsements-kid-rock-jon-voight\/\" data-type=\"pmc-gallery\" data-id=\"1236073528\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Celebrity Supporters: Famous Folks In Favor Of The 47th President<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the 25-54 demo, Fox News drew 1.47 million, followed by ABC News with 1.22 million, NBC News with 1.02 million, CBS with 815,000, MS Now with 323,000, CNN with 655,000, Fox Broadcasting with 560,000 and Fox Business with 73,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhen Trump addressed Congress in March, 2025, in the final numbers Fox News topped all networks with 10.7 million viewers, followed by ABC News with 6.33 million, CBS with 4 million, NBC with 3.9 million, Fox Broadcasting with 2.65 million, CNN with 1.93 million, MSNBC with 1.92 million and Fox Business with 245,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe final Nielsen numbers will offer a more complete picture, as it collects a number of other networks that carried the president\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe figures are from Fox News via Nielsen. The measurement is from 9:15 p.m. ET to 11 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2018s State of the Union address drew around 28 million viewers across eight major news networks, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,5109,11320,3,39772,25572,183914,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-490897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-electionline","11":"tag-fox-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nielsen","14":"tag-ratings","15":"tag-state-of-the-union","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}