BREAKING : Trump’s First Official Speech CLOBBERS Obama’s Final Speech in the Ratings

On Tuesday night President Trump delivered one of the best and most compelling Presidential speeches ever.

Trump is receiving praise from both sides of the aisle for a speech that was heartfelt, emotional, hopeful, and powerful.

Chris Wallace From Fox News put it best when he said, “Tonight, Donald Trump became this nation’s President.”

The ratings are in, and President Trump’s first official speech beat Obama’s final State of the Union speech by a whopping 20% in the ratings.

From Deadline.com

UPDATED, 8:17 AM: More numbers are coming in for Donald Trump’s debut last night before a Joint Session of Congress, and they are looking good for the 45th President over his predecessor’s last State Of the Union.

Going low on the hyperbole and heavy on the history, the President’s highly anticipated speech was a fairly polished performance on a very big stage that caught a lot of Americans’ attention – up over 25% from what Barack Obama’s final SOTU drew among the Big 4 back on January 14, 2016.

NBC saw the biggest jump with Trump’s speech over last year’s SOTU in the 18-49 demo with a 33% surge. ABC was up 20%, Fox rose 14%, and CBS stayed the same as Obama last official address to Congress among the key demo.There still are more adjusted ratings to come in and the cable newers of CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC need to be factored in before a final number for last night’s speech can be asserted. (UPDATE: Read cable news’ ratings for the speech here.) Apples to almost a decade ago, POTUS 44’s first Joint Address of February 24, 2009, ended up with a total viewership of just under 52.4 million over 10 national reaching nets from NBC to Fox News Channel and Univision

With the cable news networks and a few others added in, Obama’s final SOTU had a total audience of 31.3 million watching over 13 networks – an all-time low.

We’ll get a greater sense of the larger response when viewership and demo numbers come in later this morning. Right now, in an era of changing TV viewing habits, the best comparison for Trump’s speech on Tuesday again is the final SOTU of President Barack Obama from January 12 last year. In the early ratings, the 44^th POTUS snagged 18.1 million viewers and a cume demo of 4.2 in early 2016 – an all-time low for the two-term Democrat.