Here's What Trump Had To Say To Roseanne Following Show

President Trump gave Roseanne Barr a congratulatory call Wednesday night after an estimated 18.2 million viewers tuned in to watch Tuesday night’s revival of “Roseanne.” What we know for sure is the president, a former reality TV star known to be keenly interested in ratings and crowd sizes and such, congratulated Barr on the huge ratings bonanza.

We don’t know if he watched it. The White House didn’t say. “Twenty Years to Life,” the premiere episode of the eight-episode reboot, wasn’t all about him, but it was enough about him that it likely would have had some appeal.

The show depicted real-life drama playing out in American households since Trump’s 2016 election, featuring a huge fight between Roseanne, an ardent supporter of the president both in the series and in real life, and her sister, Jackie Harris (Laurie Metcalf), who wore a pink pussy hat and “nasty woman” T-shirt.

“It was pretty exciting, I'll tell you that much," Barr told ABC’s “Good Morning America” of the president's surprise call. "They said, 'Hold please for the president of the United States of America' and [that] was about the most exciting thing ever. It was just very sweet of him to congratulate us."

During the president’s congratulatory call, first reported by The New York Times, Barr said they had a “friendly conversation about working in television and ratings.”

“He really understands ratings and how they measure things,” she told "Good Morning America."

The Nielsen Company said the TV audience was 10 percent larger than the number of viewers who tuned in for the series finale in 1997. ABC said it was the season’s top premiere and Tuesday’s highest-rated entertainment telecast in six years.

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The original show about the Conner family tackled issues like birth control for teenagers, gay relationships and abortion during its 1988-1997 run, and Tuesday night’s “Roseanne” revival remained true to that theme.

The show was widely praised for depicting a typical American working class family with differing views on political and other issues that others are afraid to tackle, including gender identity. Darlene (Sara Gilbert) has a gender-fluid child in the reboot.

"He's a little boy,” Gilbert, one of the show’s producers, told ABC. “He's based on a few kids in my life that are boys who dress in more traditionally feminine clothing. "He's too young to be gay and he doesn't identify as transgender."

Barr said she’s thrilled with response to the show.

"I'm just over the moon at the support of the 'Roseanne' family, the Conners and people liking our show,” Barr told ABC. “All the cast, we just celebrate together and say, 'Oh, the Conners are back' and we're all really happy."

Photo: “Roseanne” returns for an eight-episode run Tuesday with a cast that includes Ames McNamara, Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Emma Kenney, Jayden Rey, Roseanne Barr, Michael Fishman, John Goodman, Lecy Goranson and Sarah Chalke. (Photo courtesy of ABC Television)