CNN’s Ratings are Taking a BEATING in the Post-Trump Era

The leaders in fake news lost its most valuable ratings asset when President Donald Trump did not gain re-election. Without Mr. Trump to target with a never-ending stream of false accusations and low-blows, CNN suffered an unprecedented ratings crash.

Recent Nielsen Media Research data indicates that the media outlet most closely associated with liberal extremism lost more than half its daytime viewers. Primetime viewer interest dropped to 2.5 million from Election Day until Joe Biden’s inauguration. Its left-wing primetime watchers then left in droves from January 20 to March 15, to the tune of a 36-percent downturn. While that face-plant seems extraordinary, it comes on the heels of an exodus that occurred from late December until January 20.

Notoriously liberal Variety magazine even took a swipe at CNN, running an all-caps headline that reads: CNN PRIMETIME RATINGS FALL BACK TO EARTH IN FIRST POST-TRUMP WEEK.

“Among viewers 25-54, the decline may have hit “Cuomo Prime Time” hardest at 9 p.m., where the audience fell by more than half. As a result, “The Rachel Maddow” Show on MSNBC captured the hourly lead in the hour despite seeing a decline of its own,” Variety reports.

The left-wing resource points out that Fox News is locked in an emerging rivalry with Newsmax and OANN. Even with head-to-head competition, Fox News remained the undisputed cable news ratings leader, and Tucker Carlson Tonight ranked number one. That was a tough pill for Variety to swallow.

Nielsen data also shows that CNN hemorrhaged nearly 50 percent of its hard-left viewers. All told, CNN suffered an astonishing primetime loss from a peak of 3.1 million viewers with Mr. Trump in the White House to a pathetic 1.6 million for the entire country. It appears that in a cable news field that also includes Fox and MSNBC, CNN no longer garners the interest of viewers even with its preferred Democrat in the White House.

In the absence of Mr. Trump, the shocking ratings purge data only brings us to March 15. Since Election Day and Biden’s inauguration, CNN suffered a 34-percent decline in daytime viewership as well. Its ability to sell advertising took an even larger blow because 58 percent of its key 25 to 54 demographic lost interest.

Ratings for the week of March 15 reportedly show CNN cannot stop the bleeding, as it lost another half-million primetime viewers. It seems the further away CNN’s favorite target gets from public life, the more CNN struggles.

Controversies have certainly not helped CNN post respectable numbers. The network’s top host was Chris Cuomo, brother of disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Reports broke that the New York Democrat manipulated COVID nursing home data and put his CNN sibling at the head of the testing line, while New Yorkers went without. Chris Cuomo’s preferential treatment scandal added the most recent blemish to the network’s already soiled reputation.

Although the leader in fake news never overtook Fox News in any meaningful way, it posted 40-year viewership highs during the Trump presidency. With its snowflake audience no longer blinded by anti-Trump narratives, the CNN train wreck may finally be coming into focus. At least Democrat networks like MSNBC lie with less frequency.