At a campaign rally for Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in Huntsville, Alabama, President Donald Trump spoke for almost 90 minutes. During those 90 minutes, he touched on several topics and one of them was the NFL.
Trump said the reason for the drop in NFL ratings is protests of the national anthem and the league being too “soft.”
The NFL’s ratings have been down slightly, but not as much as Trump seems to think. Through just three weeks of the season, it’s hard to draw conclusions about the state of the NFL’s ratings. However, including all its regional games, CBS actually had higher ratings this weekend compared to week three last year, according to ESPN.