President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that they NFL ratings "are way down." The overall overnight ratings for the NFL's week 3 games were up 3% compared to the same week last year, according to Nielsen data. Related: Early ratings for the NFL are down again, but maybe not because of President TrumpNow, it should be noted that those numbers come with two major asterisks. On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted that "Ratings for NFL football are way down except before game starts, when people tune in to see whether or not our country will be disrespected!" If Trump was talking about NFL ratings generally, and not this week, he was at least partially right in two ways.

Source: CNN September 26, 2017 14:15 UTC