Donald Trump and JD Vance‘s 2025 inauguration viewership was down by greater than 10 million from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ 2021 viewers. Viewership was additionally decrease than Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, in keeping with early Nielsen information shared on January 21. The vast majority of viewers for the 2025 presidential inauguration had been watching on Fox Information, which was additionally the one main information community to see a rise in inauguration viewership because the 2021 ceremony.
Trump’s second swearing-in ceremony was watched by 27.12 million viewers throughout the six main information networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox Information, MSNBC, CNN) through the 12 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. ET time-frame on Monday, January 20. There was a mean of 26.05 million viewers from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. Biden’s swearing in attracted almost 40 million viewers (39.87 million), and Trump’s 2017 inauguration had 38.3 million viewers.
Fox Information averaged 10.3 million viewers within the 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. ET window and peaked with 10.59 million within the midday to 1 p.m. ET hour.
The inauguration occurred contained in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday, January 20, versus outdoors of the constructing dealing with the Capitol garden as ordinary. Freezing temperatures had been the cited motive for transferring the occasion indoors.
The inauguration was televised reside on all the key information networks. ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, CSPAN, Fox Information, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, and Telemundo all carried the occasion. There was additionally a White Home livestream.
Trump and Vance had been sworn in surrounded by an viewers of tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos and politicians (together with the entire residing former presidents and first girls, besides Michelle Obama), Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, and extra. Trump’s inaugural deal with was adopted by an honorary departure for President Joe Biden and first woman Jill Biden. Then got here a signing ceremony within the President’s Room of the Capitol’s Senate wing, an inaugural luncheon, an inaugural parade, and an inaugural ball.
Trump and Vance then went to DC’s Capital One Enviornment after the inauguration to signal Trump’s first government orders in entrance of a crowd of his supporters. It was throughout this occasion that Musk, the brand new proprietor of X/Twitter, gave a speech and delivered two Nazi salutes on the podium that bore the president’s seal.
Trump’s first government orders 0f his second time period included pardons for January 6 riots convicts and defendants, together with members of white supremacist teams just like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
Different government orders embrace a pause of the TikTok ban (a ban he initiated in 2020 whereas nonetheless in his first time period), the reversal of 78 Biden-era government actions, orders, and presidential memoranda, an try to finish birthright citizenship (it will little question face continued authorized motion because it violates the 14th Modification of the US Structure), a declaration that the US authorities will solely acknowledge female and male as genders, the top of range, fairness, and inclusion applications (DEI) throughout the federal authorities, a withdrawal from the Paris Local weather Settlement, and extra.