Friday, September 18, 2026

Hunting Unicorns 🦄

Trump: If you look at the convention that we just had. It was just announced we had over 100 million live stream views. Everyone is amazed because the NFL was our opponent on that one. And the NFL had 25 million, so we had for the convention 100 million live stream views which is a record
 First I’ve heard of it, but not the first time he’s said it:
With his comments on the Sept. 10 and 11 midterm convention, Trump jumped the gun on the official release of Nielsen’s industry-standard television ratings. After those numbers came out a few days later, CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter wrote that the two NFL games broadcast at the same time as the convention collectively had more than 43 million viewers, compared with about 7 million collectively for the convention.

When we asked the White House for data to support Trump's assertion, a spokesperson pointed us to a different metric: social media impressions.

The White House cited an X post by a Trump adviser, Alex Bruesewitz, that said, "Livestreams on @TeamTrump’s TikTok generated more than 70 million combined impressions across nights one and two." The White House also cited an article on the conservative website Breitbart that discussed social media impressions.

However, experts on social media said you can’t assume social media impressions represent a gangbusters reach.

Impressions are "not comparable to Nielsen ratings in any meaningful sense," said Nick Reiners, a senior analyst in geotechnology with the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm.

NBC Sports reported that its Nielsen ratings for the league's Sept. 10 season opener between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots — a Super Bowl LX rematch — drew 25.1 million viewers. That game aired at the same time as Trump’s address on the convention's first night.

The second game of the season — the San Francisco 49ers-Los Angeles Rams faceoff in Australia — coincided with the convention’s second night. It drew 18.5 million viewers, according to the NFL. Vice President JD Vance was the keynote speaker, and Trump gave a shorter address afterward.

Stelter looked at Nielsen data for three channels that aired Trump’s first-night speech live: Fox News, Newsmax and NewsNation. He found that Fox News averaged 2.5 million viewers — similar to its level on a “normal night.” Newsmax had about 400,000 viewers and NewsNation had about 125,000, Stelter wrote. He also found that the “most-viewed YouTube videos of Trump’s night one speech have only hundreds of thousands of views.”

Together, this puts the television and streaming audience for Trump somewhere around 3.3 million — far less than the 25.1 million from the NFL season opener.
So the 100 million is an “impression” from a Trump advisor, inflated by Trump. And this guy is gonna end the war he started? How many times does he have to say that?
Trump: We're also going to be demanding the drug companies make their doses in 20%. shots. So you have shot 1, shot 2, shot 3, shot 4, shot 5, so instead of having. A massive dose of 82 or 88 different vaccines pumped into your arm, we'll take out certain vaccines that people are a little worried about…

Instead of a child going in and having a tremendous amount of different vaccines pumped in—so big, a big proportion of the body and then they wake up the next day and they've got a 109 temperature and then, the worst thing happens that can happen to a parent.

I've seen it. I've seen it happen
The sky on his planet is green. And no, he can’t do this, because it isn’t done now. Ordering it not to happen is a nullity. He might as well issue an order for Unicorn Hunting Season. Or he could say he kept the elephants away. Which is probably what voters want to do right now, anyway. He could finally sync up with their sentiments. (And in your lifetime you don’t get 88 vaccinations. He really is an innumerate boob.)

And did anyone ask him how many children he lost to massive vaccination injections?

Then Grandpa needed a nap:
You didn’t even put that choice before Congress. Mostly because you only came up with it three months later. And it still doesn’t mean anything. Okay, Grandpa... More believable than anyone voting for you. Remember, he’s on the ballot. Or he says he is.

Followed by a spirited debate on the First Amendment:
Ox. Gored. Whose. For this, they all pile on. His people’s house. Even a liar sometimes knows the truth.

Then he went on to his last appearance at the UN.
Sun’s going down.
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