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'We don't have stars anymore – except your president': Trump knocks Hollywood for record low Oscar ratings

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Sunday’s Oscars had the lowest viewership ever for the awards show and President Donald Trump is making sure to kick Hollywood while it’s down.
Donald Trump.
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President Donald Trump loves to feud over ratings and didn’t hold back on the record low viewership for Sunday’s Oscars .
« Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY, » he tweeted Tuesday . « Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore – except your President (just kidding, of course)! »
According to Nielsen, 26.5 million viewers tuned into the nearly four-hour Academy Awards presentation on ABC. That’s a 19% drop from last year’s audience and makes it the smallest viewing audience for the Oscars in history.
A lot of factors could’ve gone into the show’s low viewership, one of which would actually support Trump’s assertion that the show lacked star power.
« Shape of Water, » for example, won for best picture and only grossed $57 million at the US box office. Last year’s biggest hit, « Star Wars: The Last Jedi, » earned $619 million. If box office gave us some insight into star power and what Americans want, Trump would be right. And the Oscars makes it a habit of picking best picture winners that don’t make a lot of money, as Jason Guerrasio reported for our sister site, Business Insider.
That aside, Trump just loves to pick fights over ratings (especially if he can say that his absence was the reason).
Remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger’s season of « Celebrity Apprentice » tanked with viewers? Trump wouldn’t let us, or his replacement, forget it.
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