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UPDATED, 8:17 AM: More numbers are coming in for Donald Trumps debut last night before a Joint Session of Congress, and they are looking good for the 45thPresident over his predecessors last State Of the Union.

Going low on the hyperbole and heavy on the history, the Presidents highly anticipated speech was a fairly polished performance on a very big stage that caught a lot of Americans attention around 22.7 million actually. Thats up over 25% from what Barack Obamas final SOTU drew among the Big 4 back on January 14, 2016.

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As was the case in the metered-market numbers earlier this morning, NBC was the highest-rated network to show the its f0rmer Celebrity Apprentice hosts 9-10:09 PM ET remarks, drawing a 2.0/7 rating among adults 18-49 and 8.3 million viewers. A strong lead-in by the highest-rated show of the night, The Voice (2.6/10), was no hindrance. ABC was next with a 1.2/4 rating and an audience of 5.13 million. CBS followed with a 1.0/3 and 6.59 million tuning in, and Fox had a 0.8/3 rating and 2.72 million watching between 9 and 10:30 PM.

Overall, the speech had a combined demo of 5.0 or 19% better than Obamas last SOTU last year.

NBC saw the biggest jump with Trumps speech over last years SOTU in the 18-49 demo with a 33% surge. ABC was up 20%, Fox rose 14%, and CBS stayed the same as Obama last official address to Congress among the key demo.There still are more adjusted ratings to come in and the cable newers of CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC need to be factored in before a final number for last nights speech can be asserted. (UPDATE: Read cable news ratings for the speechhere.) Apples to almost a decade ago, POTUS 44s first Joint Address of February 24, 2009, ended up with a total viewership of just under 52.4 million over 10 national reaching nets from NBC to Fox News Channel and Univision

With the cable news networks and a few others added in, Obamas final SOTU had a total audience of 31.3 million watching over 13 networks an all-time low.

In the meantime, there were a few other things on TV on Tuesday before the Presidents speech like anNCIS (0.9/3) encore on CBS. Fox had originals of New Girl (0.9/3) and The Mick (0.9/3), which were down a tenth and even from last week, respectively.

After its latest season premiere on Monday, NBC had more of The Voice on Tuesday at 8 PM. The singing competition series from Apprentice EP Mark Burnett dropped a not-so-bad 16% from the debut of the night before. Compared to the 8-10 PM Tuesday premiere of a year ago, which did not share the night with a POTUS, Voice declined 13%. Comedy led into Trumps remarks on ABC with out-of-their-regular-slots Fresh Off the Boat (1.2/4) and The Real ONeals (1.1/4). Both up from their February 21 shows, by a tenth and two-tenths, respectively. The CWs The Flash (1.1/4) had a good night with 10% demo rise over last week.

PREVIOUSLY, 7:38 AM: As Arnold Schwarzenegger can tell you, Donald Trump has never made any secret of his fascination with ratings. It was a bit too early in his term to call last nights speech a State of the Union but the 45th Presidents debut primetime Joint Address on Tuesday before members of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs and more looks like a winner with Americans watching at home.

The wide-ranging, primarily upbeat, sometimes emotional and frequently GOP applauded 9 10:09 PM ET speech was up from President Barack Obamas last SOTU last year in the early numbers across almost all the Big 4 networks.

NBC was the highest rated network in metered market results to show the ex-Celebrity Apprentice hosts remarks with a 5.6/9 rating thats up 17% in the early numbers from Obamas last SOTU on January 14, 2016. CBS followed with a 4.5/7 MM result for Trumps speech in the 9 10 slot, basically steady with what Obama got on the House of Moonves last year. ABCs 3.8/6 was up 3% over the 2016 SOTU and Fox jumped up 11% from Obamas last SOTU of last year to a 2.1/3 MM result for Trump last night.

Well get a greater sense of the larger response when viewership and demo numbers come in later this morning. Right now, in an era of changing TV viewing habits, the best comparison for Trumps speech on Tuesday again is the final SOTU of President Barack Obama from January 12 last year. In the early ratings, the 44th POTUS snagged 18.1 million viewers and a cume demo of 4.2 in early 2016 an all-time low for the two-term Democrat.

With the cable news networks and a few others added in, Obamas final SOTU had a total audience of 31.3 million watching over 13 networks. That was also an all-time Obama SOTU viewership low by less than 2% from his 2015 address.

Coming just over a month after he was sworn in, Obamas Joint Address of February 24, 2009 had a total viewership of just under 52.4 million over 10 national reaching nets from NBC to Fox News Channel and Univision. George W. Bushs February 27, 2001 first speech to Congress, also not a SOTU, was watched by 39.8 million in total. In a very different era when FNC wasnt even on the air, Bill Clintons February 17, 1993 Joint Address hit a motherlode total audience of 66.9 million a number that only Ws pre-Iraq war 2003 SOTU approached in the last two decades with its viewership of 62.1 million.

Well update with more numbers for Trumps speech later on today, especially when the FNC, CNN, MSNBC and more numbers come in.

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Former president Barack Obama waves with his wife Michelle Obama at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on Jan. 20, 2017. Brendan McDermid / Reuters, file

"We are absolutely thrilled to continue our publishing partnership with President and Mrs. Obama,"

Dohle vowed their book launches will be "global publishing events of unprecedented scope and significance."

Neither Dohle nor the heavyweight Washington lawyers who repped the Obamas Robert Barnett and Deneen Howell of Williams & Connolly dished any details about when the books would be published, what their titles might be, or how much the former first couple are being paid.

Nor would a spokesman for

Barack Obama's book is expected to be a behind the scenes account of his eight turbulent years in the White House. Michelle Obama's planned book is described by the Associated Press as "an inspirational work for young people that will draw upon her life story."

The

Obama was a critically-acclaimed writer even before he got to the White House in 2009. His books "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope" were both best bestsellers and earned him millions.

The former first lady is also already a published author. Her book about food and gardening, "American Grown," was published in 2012.

The Obamas are expected to donate what Penguin Random House called a "significant portion" of their proceeds to charity as well as the non-profit Obama Foundation.

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The slogan in French is, Oui, on peut, which translates into Yes, we can.

Former President Obama is a U.S. citizen, which means he is an ineligible candidate, but that did not stop 42,000 supporters in the country to sign an online petition urging him to run.

One of the petitions organizers told the BBC that the message is intended to the eligible candidates running for office: Hey guys, you dont really make us dream.

With Europe's migrant influx and fears of Islamic extremism on many voters' minds, polls show high support for the tough-on-security platform of conservative former Prime Minister Francois Fillon and the nationalist campaign of far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

However, Fillon has stumbled on allegations of fake taxpayer-funded jobs for his wife and children - particularly damaging for someone pledging to slash public spending. Le Pen, who came in third in the 2012 race, is facing financial investigations too. And while she hopes to ride a wave of anti-establishment, anti-European Union sentiment to power, numerous critics fear her worldview is racist and dangerous.

The New York Times reported that many voters in France are unable to identify many of the 12 candidates.

The paper reported that some political organizers in the country have been placing red-white-and-blue posters with Obamas picture on city streets.

There isnt one man or woman that we can project ourselves onto, someone we would want to vote for and fight for without hesitation, someone who unites people and has a strong aura, one of the organizers told the paper.

A spokesman for Obama declined to comment for the paper.

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Ive not done a full count on how many times that President AssFace has said former President Obamas name, but at this point Im expecting him to follow Obama out of an L.A. club and force his way into Obamas SUV.

He literally cant stop saying Obamas name. During an interview with the fake news show, Fox and Friends, Trump literally said that he believes that Obama is behind the leaks within his administration. He also added that he believes that angry town hall folks are plants put there by Obamas administration and not because hes the worst president to ever president.

No, I think that President Obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it, Trump said during the show that aired Monday, CNN reports. And some of the leaks possibly come from that group, which are really serious because they are very bad in terms of national security. But I also understand that is politics. In terms of him being behind things, thats politics. And it will probably continue.

I dont know how to say this lightly but Obama doesnt give a fuck about you, in fact, hes currently filing a restraining order against your ass because you are acting crazy and disturbing his happy place after eight years of running this abusive ass country the best he could.

Trump doesnt want to see you. He doesnt want your job. He doesnt want you calling him. He broke up with America and its time that you let it go. Hes moving on with his life and your starting to look real stalker-ish with the amount of times you mention his name in interviews as if hes still pinning away about you.

Step your tanning game up and worry about your own shit, according to the latest polls, half of America cant stand you and trust me when I tell you that Obama is in the half. He doesnt want to see your fail or win, in fact, and this may be the hardest part to swallow, is that he doesnt care about anything youre doing because he doesnt fuck with you.

And that might be the hardest part for Trump to swallow, when Obama walked away from the White House he didnt look back. In fact, those of us who are still grieving his absence have been having trouble watching him move on without us. His tan is better than yours, his wife is better than yours, his cabinet is better than yours, his presidency up until this point has been better than yours, and that has to burn. But while its burning, do us all a favor and stop with the conspiracy theories. He isnt calling your phone and hanging up. He isnt checking your Twitter feed to see what youve posted. He doesnt fuck with you and its time to move on and keep his name off your lips; trust me its better for all of us.

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The man who served as Barack Obama's former press secretary said using fake news to attack someone's credibility is not anything new noting specifically that President Trump has been a fake-news purveyor for years.

Josh Earnest was referring tothe birther movement, which coalesced around the conspiracy theory that Obama was not born in the United States. Trump renounced the theorylast fall during his presidential campaign, but only after years of claiming that Obama is not a U.S.-born citizen despite evidence to the contrary.

"This is something Republicans have been engaged in, and one Republican in particular has been very focused on for a long time," Earnest told Stephen Colbert on Tuesday on CBS's "The Late Show."

Last September, Trump acknowledged for the first time that Obama was born in the United States.But indoing so,he also claimed credit for ending the false theory that he was born elsewhere. And on more than one occasion, he sought to place the blame on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

"You know who started the birther movement? You know who started it? Do you know who questioned his birth certificate, one of the first? Hillary Clinton. She's the one who started it. She brought it up years before it was brought up by me," Trump said in a May 2016 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

[Trump admits Obama was born in U.S., but falsely blames Clinton for starting rumors]

Although there's evidence that some of Clinton's supporters circulated anonymous emails questioning Obama's citizenship in 2008, when the two Democrats were vying to be the party's presidential nominee,there was no proof that Clinton herself or her campaign made such statements, according to The Washington Post's fact-checker, Michelle Ye Hee Lee.

Trump started talking publicly about the birther theory in 2011, making several television appearances in which herepeatedly questionedwhether Obama was actually born in Hawaii. At times, Trump referenced anonymous sources the very action that he has denounced when criticizing negative stories about the administration.

"Why doesn't he show his birth certificate? There's something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like,"he said on ABC's "The View" in March 2011.

On"The Laura Ingraham Show" that same month, Trump said: "There's something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me and I have no idea if this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be that where it says 'religion,' it might have 'Muslim.' And if you're a Muslim, you don't change your religion, by the way."

In August 2012, more than a year after Obama released his long-form birth certificate, Trump tweeted that somebody had told him the birth certificate was a fraud.

Several Republicans also have publicly questioned Obama's citizenship a problem that dogged Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in 2012.

Former congressman Cliff Searns (R-Fla.) did so at a town hall meeting in March 2012 and told reporters that same month that he was not convinced Obama's birth certificate was valid.

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) said in April 2012 that she had "a lot of doubts"about whether the birth certificate is real.

"I don't understand why he didn't show that right away. I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is,'" she said, responding to a constituent's question at a town hall.

Perhaps one of the more adamant believers is Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who advocated for the theory even after Trump had abandoned it. He announced in Decemberthat a five-year investigation had found that Obama's birth certificate was, in fact, forged.In a presentation in front of journalists, he and a member of his Sheriff's Office's Cold Case Posse highlighted what they called "9 points of forgery" on the document, the Arizona Republic reported.

On the "Late Show," Earnest, who was the White House press secretary from 2014 until Obama left office, said Republicans have sought to delegitimize Obama for the last eight years by spreadingthe fake news that he wasn't born in the United States. Trump has repeatedly used the term "fake news" to describe several negative stories about his administration.

Many Republicans, however, have distanced themselves from the birther theory.

Donald Trump spent a lot of time raising doubts over President Obama's birth certificate in 2011. He finally admitted Obama was born in the U.S. on Sept. 16, but falsely accused Hillary Clinton's campaign of starting the rumor. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)

In 2011, for instance, Arizona's then-governor, Jan Brewer,vetoed the so-called "birther bill" that would have required presidential candidates to provide documentation proving they were born in the United States to get on the state ballot.

Last September, Trump's running mate, Mike Pence,told reporters that he believed Obama was born in Hawaii, even as Trump at that time avoided renouncing the theory. Former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carsontold CNN's Jake Tapperthen that it would be a "good idea" for Trump to apologize for pushing the birther theory.

Earnest also spoke briefly about his counterpart in the White House, Sean Spicer, and the Trump administration's relationship with the press.

"There's supposed to be friction and tension between the White House press corps and the White House," Earnest said. "The day that there is no friction and tension between the White House press corps and the White House is the day that the press corps has stopped doing their job."

[President Trump just hung Sean Spicer out to dry. Again.]

Asked about Spicer's first news conference in January, when he read a prepared speech berating the press for reporting on the size of Trump's inauguration crowd, Earnest said it was "a strange way to start." Spicer falsely claimedthat Trump's crowd size was the largest ever for an inauguration.

"One of the things you have to recognize about being the White House press secretary is, your job is to go out there every single it's a job not unlike yours, you have to go out there every single day and speak to the press corps on live television," Earnest said. "You have to keep that in mind. And so spending all the credibility he spent on the very first day I think was a little short-sighted."

Earnest also said it's "entirely fair" for media organizations to criticize the White House for excluding news organizations, notably CNN, the New York Times, Politico and others, from an off-camera press briefing. Spicer denied doing so in an interviewon Fox News Insider,saying the pool of media members rotates every day and the said news organizations were not part of the pool.

"I think any assertion that they were banned or whatever is completely ridiculous," Spicer said.

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