5 Reasons Why Donald Trump Is Dead Wrong Boasting About Record Debate Ratings

Donald Trump likes to talk a big game about the TV ratings he brings in, but the president was flat-out wrong about the kind of numbers his first presidential debate with Joe Biden brought in on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, Trump tweeted: “HIGHEST CABLE TELEVISION RATINGS OF ALL TIME. SECOND HIGHEST OVERALL TELEVISION RATINGS OF ALL TIME. Some day these Fake Media Companies are going to miss me, very badly!!!” As a refresher, Tuesday’s debate raked in 73.1 million total viewers across a 16-channel simulcast from 9 p.m. ET-11 p.m. ET, representing a 16% decline from the first presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton in Sept.