Only one person cares about these ratings, and he hates this.
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That weird obsession with crowd size....
Heheh, that little look at his own hands.....
And the cameras scanning the, not one, but two packed arenas, the second one being where Trump's convention had been....
Trump's obsessed with the size of a lot of things. Maybe he's compensating for something. I guess we'll never know.
It's so weird that a former "celebrity" would be such a ratings loser. How humiliating that must be, when he has every advantage. Looks. Experience. Bottle of sperm freshly harvested from a couch glove...
Interesting that people still care so much about live viewings of non-sports content in the age of VOD.
But also: lol Trump is gonna lose his shit
Fun fact: "TV ratings" are polls!
“These ratings are fake ratings. The best people are telling me this. And I know it’s true because I’m very intelligent—my uncle, MIT guy, very smart, good genes. This is the Marxist, fascist media trying to take Trump down, just like they did to the late, great Hannibal Lector.
Just yesterday, a TV executive—big, tough guy, never cried before in his life—came up to me and said, with tears running down his face, he said, ‘sir, I’ve never seen ratings as fake as these.’”
— Donald Trump, probably
As I read all these classic lines (and try not to roll my eyes out of my head), I can see them scrolling up a TV screen—some in yellow text—just like those old "Greatest Hitz" CD commercials.