Donald Trump’s televised fear-mongering Oval Office address on immigration Tuesday drew a big audience, although not as big as the response from Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the quarter hour (9-9:15 p.m. ET) containing Trump’s speech drew a combined 28.1 household rating in metered markets on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CNN, Fox News and NBC. The following 15 minutes, including analysis and the Pelosi-Schumer rebuttal, averaged 29.3 across those same networks, a bump of about 4 percent.

Combined overnight ratings of seven national networks:

9-9:15, including President Trump’s address to the nation: 28.1 rating / 45 share

9:15-9:30, including Pelosi/Schumer response: 29.3 rating / 47 share

— Michael Mulvihill (@mulvihill79) January 9, 2019

Trump’s address lacked any new information and contained several inaccuracies, which spurred renewed criticism from the left and from Democrats of the networks’ decision to pre-empt their prime-time programming and air the speech.

On Twitter, those critiques tended to center an a particular word: “Played.”

“The networks got played,” tweeted liberal media watchdog Media Matters.

The networks got played https://t.co/mlmDLk4bpd pic.twitter.com/dm4eKgd39j

— Media Matters (@mmfa) January 9, 2019

“The television networks should be embarrassed for putting this on tonight,” tweeted Tagean Goddard, publisher of politics blog Political Wire. “They got played big time.”

The television networks should be embarrassed for putting this on tonight. They got played big time.

— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) January 9, 2019

Trump’s address offered little hope of a breakthrough in negotiations over the government shutdown, leaving the argument about where it was before Trump began talking.

In a brief response to the president, Pelosi and Schumer also offered no new solution to the impasse — though it was Trump, not his opponents, who asked for television time on Tuesday. Pelosi and Schumer reiterated their position: sign legislation to end the shutdown, then negotiate over border security.

“The president is rejecting these bipartisan bills, which would reopen government, over his obsession with forcing American taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on an expensive and ineffective wall, a wall he always promised Mexico would pay for,” Pelosi said.

The president’s address was the latest in a series of public appearances — including a cabinet meeting, a statement in the White House briefing room at which he was flanked by border patrol officers, and a news conference last week — in which Trump simply reiterated his demands without offering any concessions. Wielding the bully pulpit, Trump has done nothing since shutting down much of the government Dec. 22 to advance his argument or resolve the dispute.

He also has failed to persuade most Americans that he’s right. Fifty-one percent of adults surveyed Jan. 1-7 said Trump “deserves most of the blame” for the shutdown, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday. That’s up four points from a similar poll conducted Dec. 21-25.