Biden’s speech on aid to Ukraine and Israel received fewer views than Trump’s show

US President Joe Biden’s address to the nation on the topic of support for Israel and Ukraine, which he delivered on October 19, collected 22 million views, which is 6 million less than the finale of the first season of the TV show The Apprentice by former President Donald Trump. , which was viewed by 28 million people in 2004. About it reports Breitbart citing its own research.

As the publication notes, in January 2019, Trump addressed the nation, which then collected 40 million views.

On October 19, Biden made a televised address to the nation, in which he spoke, among other things, about the situation in Ukraine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “Supporting our critical partners, including Israel and Ukraine, is a smart investment that will pay dividends for generations,” he said, noting that he plans to submit a request to the US Congress on October 20 “to fund American national security needs.”

On October 20, it became known that Biden had asked Congress to allocate an additional $106 billion in the 2024 fiscal year. Of these funds, it is proposed to allocate $14.3 billion to support Israel, and $9 billion to provide humanitarian assistance to victims in the region. It is proposed to allocate $61.4 billion to support Ukraine. The proposal also includes $13.6 billion to protect the US southern border to combat illegal migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean and $4 billion to “contain China’s regional efforts in Asia.”

After this, the American president was accused of using the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to increase support for Ukraine. In particular, Ohio Senator James Vance called such a move “a disgrace” on Fox News. According to him, if Biden wants to convince the American people that Ukraine should be allocated $60 billion on top of what it has already received, “he should not use dead Israeli children for this.”