On Friday, where I was working, we watched the Trump inauguration,not by any means associated with traditional television, but via Mr. Trump's own personal live feed. I have to think that any comparison of TV ratings of this inauguration to previous ones must be fairly meaningless, because like me and my colleagues, so many people now watch such events in ways that would not be counted in TV ratings.
My boss observe that of all the feeds he found looking for a good source to watch the inauguration, all the feeds associated with mainstream news sources were giving an awful lot of undue attention to Hillary Clinton, as if the event was about her rather than about Mr. Trump; and that it was Mr.Trump's own feed that seemed to be providing the best and most appropriate coverage of the event.