Trump TV Immediately Flops in Embarrassing Numbers Disaster

MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump’s 24/7 “TV” channel has immediately flopped, in a humiliating ratings disaster for the president.

The 80-year-old former reality TV star, who calls himself “the king of ratings,” got a lot less than he bargained for after he banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House on Friday.

America’s major TV networks—NBC, ABC, CBS, and even Fox News—suspended their pooled coverage of Trump on Monday in solidarity, acting as the catalyst for the White House to launch “ Trump TV: The Essentials Station ,” a 24-hour YouTube livestream of Trump’s greatest hits.

Plugging the stream, which is hosted on the existing White House YouTube channel, Trump’s deputy assistant Kaelan Dorr moaned that “the press, in some cases, reported inaccurately or not at all on the Administration’s many record-breaking accomplishments,” and floated Trump TV as a one-stop shop for all things Trump.

The only issue is that people don’t seem interested.

The channel launched at 7 p.m. with around 8,000 viewers, but the audience had dropped below 4,000 just 90 minutes later.

By 9 p.m.

Eastern, the stream was attracting only about 3,000 viewers, a tiny audience compared with the millions watching the major networks at primetime.

By around 10:40 p.m., just 2,425 people were watching.

The channel has 3.18 million followers, so that’s a measly .076 percent.

It reached a new nadir at the time of writing, 3.30 a.m.

Eastern on Tuesday, with just 1,123 watching a rerun of a speech he gave alongside Britain’s King Charles in Windsor a year ago.

Trump announced the ban on Sept.

18, accusing CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO of producing “FAKE NEWS.” In the Oval Office, he said the decision was based on “cumulative stories over the last two years” and complained that the outlets wrote “purposely negative” coverage intended to “diminish” him and his administration.