Trump’s Address to Congress Draws 36.6 Million Viewers, Up 13% From Biden’s 2024 State of the Union

variety.com:

Selome Hailu Donald Trump‘s address to Congress reached an average of 36.6 million viewers on Monday. That total puts the speech 13% above Joe Biden’s most recent State of the Union address, which reached 32.2 million viewers in 2024.

Still, Trump didn’t manage to draw as large an audience as he did with any of his State of the Union addresses during his first term as president.

His 2017 address reached 47.7 million viewers, followed by 45.6 million in 2018, 46.8 in 2019 and 37.2 million in 2020. Measured by Nielsen, this year’s total accounts for viewers across ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Merit Street, Telemundo, Univision, PBS, CNN, CNNe, FOX Business, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, NewsMax and NewsNation.

Biden’s 2024 total includes all of the same networks minus Merit Street, which is unlikely to have caused a large enough discrepancy to affect which telecast drew more viewers.