Donald Trump might have been good for the wretched cable news business during his first term when MSNBC and CNNLOL were baiting their gullible left-wing viewers with one walls-are-closing-in-on-Trump hoax after another, but those days are long over in Trump 2.0.
Currently, both CNNLOL and MSNBC are in a ratings death spiral as their demoralized viewers tune out, exhausted by all the lies and false assurances that Trump was doomed. If the Russia Hoax didn’t get him, January 6 would. If the felony charges in New York didn’t get him, the felony charges in Georgia would. Joe Biden will beat him again! Kamala Harris and her Brat Summer have this thing sewn up! Look at that Iowa poll. It’s over. He’s done. The Bad Orange Man will never again be presi—wait, whuh?
And now, at long last, the evil that is CNN and MSNBC is dead. Oh, both hate outlets still wander around not knowing they are zombies with almost no influence on public opinion, but their power is so diminished, we only check up on them to point and laugh at them, which is what I’m about to do.
For the week of September 15-21, that massive news week in the aftermath of a trans-loving leftist allegedly assassinating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, CNN was only able to attract an average of 570,000 primetime viewers. MSNBC attracted an average of only 854,000.
For context, Fox News drew an average of 2.673 million — which is close to twice the combined viewership of CNN and MSNBC.
Throughout the total day, CNN averaged only (tee hee) 400,000 viewers. MSNBC averaged only 505,000. Fox News crushed them both with 1.776 million.
In the age demo that sets advertising rates, CNN and MSNBC are dying in primetime, attracting only 87,000 and 70,000 viewers, respectively. Fox News drew 289,000.
In the same vital demo during total day viewing, CNN and MSNBC attracted only 58,000 and 44,000 demo viewers, respectively. Fox News drew 201,000.
Get a load of this…
CNN and MSNBC are so toxic to Normal People that during that Sunday’s memorial service for Charlie Kirk, NewsNation almost drew more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined:
Between 1 p.m. ET and 7:15 p.m. ET on Sunday, NewsNation averaged 615,000 total viewers and 173,000 demo viewers. This was better than MSNBC, which had 287,000 total viewers and 31,000 A25-54 viewers, and CNN, which had 342,000 total viewers and 54,000 viewers in the demo during the same time period.
Fox’s memorial coverage drew an average of 5.2 million total viewers and 755,000 demo viewers.
The only thing keeping MSNBC and CNN alive is cable/satellite TV carriage fees. If CNN and/or MSNBC are available on your cable/satellite TV package, you are funding two outlets that hate you. No way could MSNBC and CNN survive on merit—advertising revenue based on viewership.
If you care at all about your country, family, and future, cancel your cable/satellite package today. You’ll also save a fortune by moving to streaming, and you won’t believe how much of streaming is free—including news. Best of all, you won’t be subsidizing CNN and MSNBC.
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Trump Warns “We’d be Laying Off a Lot of People” if Democrats Shut the Government Down – “We Can Get Rid of a Lot of Things That We Don’t Want”
President Trump on Tuesday signaled that “a lot of people” will be laid off if the Democrats shut the government down by refusing to vote for a stopgap measure to keep the government funded until November 21.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the government is expected to shut down tonight at midnight because the Democrats refuse to vote for a stopgap bill unless they can secure $1.5 trillion in spending that will fund healthcare for illegal aliens and sex reassignment surgery for children.
President Trump warned Democrats earlier that he will take “irreversible” measures to implement his agenda if the Democrats do not come to the table and pass the government funding bill tonight.
CBS’s Weijia Jang asked the President why it is necessary to fire more federal employees if Democrats shut down the government, and he reiterated that he doesn’t want a shutdown but he will likely make the best of the situation.
“A lot of good can come down from shutdowns. We can get rid of a lot of things that we don’t want,” he told reporters. “They’d be Democrat things.”
He added, “We have no choice. I have to do that for the country,” pointing to policies like open borders, men in women’s sports, and “transgender for everybody.”
WATCH:
Jiang: As we inched closer to a government shutdown this morning, you said you might do a lot of layoffs. If DOGE is already reducing the federal workforce, why is it necessary to link more federal jobs cut to a shutdown?
Trump: Well, the Democrats want to shut it down, and so when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs. So, we’d be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected. And the Democrats, they’re going to be Democrats. As you know, this country, no country can afford to pay for illegal immigration, health care for everybody that comes into the country. That’s what they’re insisting. And obviously I have an obligation to not accept that. That would affect everybody.
When I see what we’re doing with AI and all the plants that are opening up in the country— $17 trillion is coming in. If you compare that to Biden, Biden had, in four years, less than a trillion. We have 17 trillion— more than that. I think it’s going to be much more than that, David. By the end of this year, I think it’s going to be far over that. It’s a record, it’s already a record in eight months. It’s a record by a lot. And so we’re doing well as a country.
So, the last thing we want to do is shut it down. But a lot of good can come down from shut downs. We can get rid of a lot of things that we don’t want. They’d be Democrat things, but they want open borders, they want men playing in women’s sports, they want transgender for everybody, they never stop and they don’t learn. We won an election in a landslide. They just don’t learn. So, we have no choice. I have to do that for the country.
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GOP, Here’s Your Soundbite for the Looming Schumer Shutdown Fight.
There’s not going to be a deal to keep the government open, so a shutdown is imminent. It will also last a few days. The Senate will be adjourned for Yom Kippur, although it is unlikely that Democrats will budge, at least for now. The GOP war room must weaponize what the party already clipped and posted on social media: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) admitting that the Democrats are shutting the government down over health care for illegal aliens:
This exchange says it all. Republicans should give her a gift basket. This issue was settled with the Big, Beautiful Bill, which purged illegals from the Medicaid rolls. When you peel back the theatrics, the Democrats are gearing up for a fight they cannot win. Shutting down the government over illegal alien health care, funding for National Public Radio, and repealing the rural healthcare fund are loser issues. The only question is whether Republicans a) recognize it, and b) have a killer narrative to shred the Democratic theatrics here.
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