Mueller Congressional testimony suffers from Impeachment fatigue - just 3.9% of public tunes in! Did Dump Trump movement hit brick wall? 96% of public tunes out!

What does it all mean?

The population of the US is 329,243,667 (July 2019), which means less than 4%, 3.9% to be precise, of the entire US population was tuned in to the Mueller spectacle on television.  Over 96% chose to ignore the painful performance.

For comparison purposes, the 2019 Super Bowl drew a TV audience of 98.7 million viewers, which was the smallest audience in eleven years.  As for the President and his drawing power, Donald Trump’s inauguration ratings were the second-highest in 36 years, according to Nielsen.  The swearing-in of the 45th president in 2017 was seen by 30.6 million viewers.

Even more ominous, the President’s State of the Union address - TV Ratings: 46.8 million watched Trump’s 2019 State of the Union, up slightly from 46.79 million in 2018.  Did I mention Trump got over 62 million votes for president and has 61 million followers on Twitter?  That is reality.  That is the truth.

Here are excerpts of how some of the media reported the news.

Mueller? Mueller? Special Counsel’s Testimony Falls Short in TV Ratings

By Michael M. Grynbaum

July 25, 2019

“Whatever the reason, the ratings for Robert S. Mueller III’s congressional testimony on Wednesday failed to match the big viewership for other recent political spectacles.”

“An average of 13 million Americans watched the former special counsel on the major cable and broadcast networks over the seven-and-a-half hours of questioning, according to statistics released on Thursday by Nielsen.”

“That audience was smaller than the 19.5 million people who watched James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, describe his dealings with President Trump to Congress in June 2017. Mr. Comey proved a surprising and animated witness, offering memorable one-liners (“Lordy, I hope there are tapes”) that attracted about the same audience as Game 2 of that year’s N.B.A. finals.”

Fox News’ Robert Mueller Testimony Coverage Viewership Tops MSNBC, CNN & All Broadcast Networks

By Dominic Patten

Dominic Patten

“There wasn’t any Presidency-ending revelation, and Robert Mueller stubbornly refused to read from his special counsel report on Donald Trump directly, but more than 12.9 million Americans tuned in Wednesday to watch Mueller testify live before not one but two congressional committees.”

“However, we know for sure that Fox News Channel took the gold for the daytime viewership on Wednesday. With an audience of 3.03 million, the Bret Baier- and Martha MacCallum-anchored coverage on the Rupert Murdoch-owned news cabler beat runner-up MSNBC by 26% in sets of eyeballs. In preliminary numbers for the 8:15 AM-3:45 PM ET coverage of Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, ABC was third with 2.12 million.”

TV viewership for Mueller hearings falls flat

By Brian Stelter, CNN Business

Updated 2:43 PM ET, Thu July 25, 2019

“In a possible sign of Trump-related fatigue, neither the Mueller or Cohen hearings were as highly-rated as former FBI Director James Comey's explosive day of testimony in June 2017, which drew about 20 million viewers.”

How does this compare to other recent events on TV?

14.5 million viewers watched James Holzhauer's historic loss on "Jeopardy!"

JUNE 20, 2019 / 9:34 PM / CBS/AP

TV Ratings: USA’s World Cup Victory Over France Draws 6.3 Million Viewers

JUNE 29, 2019