Trump says his State of the Union viewership was the highest ever. The ratings say otherwise.

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/01/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-most-viewed-not-true/

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday boasted that the viewership of his State of the Union speech was “the highest number in history” – a claim at odds with ratings figures released the day before.

In a morning tweet, Trump thanked supporters “for all the nice compliments and reviews” of his address and said 45.6 million people had watched on Tuesday.
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In a scene reminiscent of his over-inflation of the attendance numbers at his inauguration, Trump exaggerated the number of viewers who tuned into his State of the Union address by several million. Forty-eight million had tuned in to watch President Obama's 2010 SOTU address & 52 million had watched his 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. Trump is apparently suffering from delusions of grandeur.

JacksinPA said:

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/01/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-most-viewed-not-true/

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday boasted that the viewership of his State of the Union speech was “the highest number in history” – a claim at odds with ratings figures released the day before.

In a morning tweet, Trump thanked supporters “for all the nice compliments and reviews” of his address and said 45.6 million people had watched on Tuesday.
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In a scene reminiscent of his over-inflation of the attendance numbers at his inauguration, Trump exaggerated the number of viewers who tuned into his State of the Union address by several million. Forty-eight million had tuned in to watch President Obama's 2010 SOTU address & 52 million had watched his 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. Trump is apparently suffering from delusions of grandeur.

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I think Trump is just suffering from regular delusions .........

JacksinPA said:

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/01/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-most-viewed-not-true/

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday boasted that the viewership of his State of the Union speech was “the highest number in history” – a claim at odds with ratings figures released the day before.

In a morning tweet, Trump thanked supporters “for all the nice compliments and reviews” of his address and said 45.6 million people had watched on Tuesday.
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In a scene reminiscent of his over-inflation of the attendance numbers at his inauguration, Trump exaggerated the number of viewers who tuned into his State of the Union address by several million. Forty-eight million had tuned in to watch President Obama's 2010 SOTU address & 52 million had watched his 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. Trump is apparently suffering from delusions of grandeur.

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Not sure what Trump is suffering from, but it is certainly odd that he has to make claims like this that are so easily proven to be untrue.

JacksinPA said:

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/01/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-most-viewed-not-true/

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday boasted that the viewership of his State of the Union speech was “the highest number in history” – a claim at odds with ratings figures released the day before.

In a morning tweet, Trump thanked supporters “for all the nice compliments and reviews” of his address and said 45.6 million people had watched on Tuesday.
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In a scene reminiscent of his over-inflation of the attendance numbers at his inauguration, Trump exaggerated the number of viewers who tuned into his State of the Union address by several million. Forty-eight million had tuned in to watch President Obama's 2010 SOTU address & 52 million had watched his 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. Trump is apparently suffering from delusions of grandeur.

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Who cares?

if you just assume that everything Trump says is an exaggeration or an outright falsehood, you'll probably be correct more often than not.

gdgyva said:

Who cares?

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That the leader of the Free World is a habitual liar? We all should care.

JacksinPA said:

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/01/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-most-viewed-not-true/

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday boasted that the viewership of his State of the Union speech was “the highest number in history” – a claim at odds with ratings figures released the day before.

In a morning tweet, Trump thanked supporters “for all the nice compliments and reviews” of his address and said 45.6 million people had watched on Tuesday.
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In a scene reminiscent of his over-inflation of the attendance numbers at his inauguration, Trump exaggerated the number of viewers who tuned into his State of the Union address by several million. Forty-eight million had tuned in to watch President Obama's 2010 SOTU address & 52 million had watched his 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. Trump is apparently suffering from delusions of grandeur.

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Trump couldn't tell the truth if you held a gun to his head. This entire mess tells us more about the Republicans than we could ever wish to know.

A Pathological Liar Is Made, Not Born: When Telling The Truth Is Nearly Impossible
Apr 22, 2015 07:00 AM By Chris Weller

Lying is sometimes necessary, but too much of it can open a window into deeper psychological disorder. Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier, CC BY-SA 2.0

Four years of high school and a steady dose of reality television have made Americans pretty adept at spotting liars. Everyone seems to know at least one person who compulsively flip flops — who twists the truth either for their own gain or, more maliciously, for someone else’s destruction. We call these people, of course, pathological liars.

Psychiatry is a little less cavalier about the pathological part. Pathologies are conditions or disorders that are innate to somebody’s health. Multiple sclerosis is a pathology. Cancer is a pathology. But the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), psychiatry’s holy book, doesn’t list lying as its own pathology, sometimes called pseudologia fantastica. Like sociopathy, psychopathy, and other forms of social deviance, the closest the DSM comes to including pathological lying is antisocial personality disorder. And pathological lying is only a possible symptom of that larger diagnosis. So can we even say it’s real?

Trump just can't handle any sort of criticism.

Also good to see you return Jack.

Helix said:

if you just assume that everything Trump says is an exaggeration or an outright falsehood, you'll probably be correct more often than not.

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It's called 'playing the odds'. :2razz:

cuban smokes said:

I think Trump is just suffering from regular delusions .........

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You know what they say the bigger the delusions the smaller the..........hands?:lamo

JacksinPA said:

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/01/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-most-viewed-not-true/

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday boasted that the viewership of his State of the Union speech was “the highest number in history” – a claim at odds with ratings figures released the day before.

In a morning tweet, Trump thanked supporters “for all the nice compliments and reviews” of his address and said 45.6 million people had watched on Tuesday.
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In a scene reminiscent of his over-inflation of the attendance numbers at his inauguration, Trump exaggerated the number of viewers who tuned into his State of the Union address by several million. Forty-eight million had tuned in to watch President Obama's 2010 SOTU address & 52 million had watched his 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. Trump is apparently suffering from delusions of grandeur.

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If he didn't inflate his viewership numbers, it'd be time to call in Dr. Ronnie because something would obviously be terribly wrong!

JacksinPA said:

That the leader of the Free World is a habitual liar? We all should care.

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We might care, but there's nothing we can do about it at the moment. Just ignore him.