CNN fires back at Trump on inauguration ratings winner

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

CNN late Wednesday fired back late Tuesday at President Trump, who said more people tuned in to watch his inauguration on Fox News than "FAKE NEWS" CNN.

“According to Nielsen cumulative numbers, 34 million people watched CNN’s inauguration day coverage on television. 34 million watched Fox News,” read the message tweeted from CNN Communications. “There were an additional 16.9 million live video starts on CNN Digital platforms. Those are the facts.”

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The response followed a tweet from the president praising Fox News for “being number one in inauguration ratings.”

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/316010-cnn-responds-to-trump-tweet-claiming-fox-news-had-more

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Direct link to that CNN tweet:

Link to tweet

[George II]

1. Wait until later today when we get the "alternative facts".

[NewJeffCT]

11. Yes, RT beat them all

and Pravda was the most read newspaper.

[Rowdyag]

2. 😂😂😂😂😂

[IronLionZion]

3. I went to get tacos for lunch in honor of Trump that day

and the shop had CNN on with his inauguration and empty stands and rainy weather.

So that proves something!

[Tanuki]

13. Ah! Tacos! We were all going to have "taco trucks on every corner" if Hillary won,

according to one Trump surrogate, as if that were a bad thing and not something delicious to look forward to. That's something else we'll have to wait 4 years for, along with rational governance, and as Superman would put it, "truth, justice, and the American Way"! Dang, why did you have to go and make me hungry for a taco?

[IronLionZion]

15. That would be delicious

They had taco trucks trolling republican offices and registering voters during the campaign. It helped in some states.

[Granny M]

21. ...sniff...

I had to give my "Taco Trucks 2016" T-shirt to my son last month. It made me sad, and hungry, every time I looked at it.

[colorado_ufo]

26. Had my tacos yesterday!

[wisteria]

4. He really is plugging his propaganda news station.

[JudyM]

36. This is unpresidented.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Trump thinks that CNN viewers only count as three fifths of a Fox viewer

Since the CNN viewers have not yet taken an oath of Patriotic Devotion to the Maximum Leader, their figures are decreased. And then awarded to the Fox viewers anyway. He's sure something like that is in the constitution. He has the best copy.

[Fearless]

8. +1

[raging moderate]

20. Winner!

Great post!

[leftynyc]

27. You win the thread (n/t)

[mobeau69]

6. CNN late Wednesday fired back late Tuesday

WTF?

[Yonnie3]

7. We are being distracted from important issues.

Who really gives a crap about this?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Yes. But this serves several purposes

1) It needles tRump and makes him not enjoy the Presidency. Thus he is more likely to resign and more likely sooner.

Trump wants the adulation of the masses, not the responsibility of governing intelligently and effectively which requires real work to study and get educated.

2) It reminds people that tRump is all about his own ego and not the country.

3) It reminds people that RepubliCons and Trump are not factually rooted.

But ...

You are absolutely right, it is distracting and must not divert Democrats and liberals and progressives from the Supreme Court nomination, gerrymandering & voter suppression, environment and so many other issues.

[Yonnie3]

16. Yes, of course.

I feel that the signal to noise ratio has been rather low here lately and that troubles me.

By linking to stories that call him a liar or even just call him wrong, we are emboldening the media, which is what really gets his goat.

Dammit, I've stepped on that damned two headed snake again!

[dalton99a]

18. Trump is obsessed with this crap.

[uponit7771]

32. +1

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. So, don't see the actual numbers. $34 million what? Close enough - but

would love to see the actuals.

[leftynyc]

28. What's with the dollar sign?

Tweet specifically says 34 million WATCHED the degenerate's party on CNN and on Fox. Those are people counted.

[Fast Walker 52]

10. we're in a post fact world...

[PatSeg]

14. He really has a way

of pissing off the wrong people. It was media that made him a star and the media could bring him down.

[dalton99a]

19. They make money off his shit show either way.

[PatSeg]

38. This is true

Though I think a lot of journalists have had enough of being played for fools.

[titaniumsalute]

17. If you add up both MSNBC and CNN they crushed Fox news

[onetexan]

22. What a freaking petty, stupid, disgraceful moron

Yea the public is smart alright. We do see through your lies and insecurities. Get this: In time you will be impeached, hopefully tried and locked up for treason for colluding with the russians to steal the presidency.

[itcfish]

23. He is worried about ratings?

Lord help us. Democrats & moderate republicans start moving your asses!

[OKNancy]

25. Isn't there some rule about promoting one business over another

or touting?

[Tanuki]

31. Especially one like Fox, whose second-to-Murdoch largest shareholder

is a Sharia-loving Saudi prince?

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-att-us&source=android-browser&q=bigthink

[JudyM]

37. He doesn't follow rules, of course. They don't apply to him.

[jaxind]

29. Even...

Even if Fox did garner more viewers than the other networks for tRUMP's inauguration, who would be surprised??! tRUMP is Fox News' golden boy!

[bleedinglib]

30. Congratulations to

The 70 million people like me who couldn't stomach watching our Country being taken over by these (well, I don't know how to describe what he is??)
On Tuesday he had the Union Leaders in his office & announced his plan for a huge infrastructure bill & how many jobs it will create?? This is what BHO had tried to do for eight years , & the R's refused to cooperate !! Well guess what? they will not provide any money for trump's infrastructure plan, but they will provide tax breaks for billionaires that don't need them!!!!

[maxrandb]

33. Ratings in Russia were massive though

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. This is actually one of the clearest examples of how he

just makes shit up. You can be absolutely certain that he absolutely did not look at any published ratings or numbers of viewers before he sent out that tweet.

Of course, virtually everything they say is wrong, wrong, wrong.

[Hekate]

35. As promised, I covered the TV like a birdcage and went to a hometown rally that day....

The next day I went to Los Angeles and joined at least 3/4 million others for the Women's march.

I didn't start watching news again till Saturday night.

I wonder how many others did that too?

[LiberalLovinLug]

39. His troll army is still hard at work. Noticing the comment section

Probably half are Russian. Did you ever wonder why so many posts use bad grammar. Its so easy to blame that on dumb-ass Red State American born 'morans' who can't read and write properly. But I suspect the reason for a lot of those grammar and spelling mistakes are because they come from Russians who are at least at the same level as those morans.

Why is it that there are so many pro Trump commentators on every story published not only on right wing sites, but on more non partisan main stream papers/sites like The Hill? I mean less than half the population voted for him, but on many if not all of these stories on mainsteam sites the comments are 90% pro Trump and Hillary bashers.