President Donald Trump lied in a tweet Thursday morning when he bragged that his State of the Union was watched by the “highest number [of people] in history”—a demonstrably false claim.

While Trump appeared to be citing Neilsen ratings released Wednesday which said that 45.6 million watch his speech, that number falls well short of the number of people who watched President Barack Obama’s first SOTU and isn’t even as many people as watch Trump’s first joint statement to Congress last year.

As the New York Daily News points out: