Donald Trump Offers Help to CNN After Years of Calling Them 'Fake News'

[demmiblue]

After years of calling CNN “fake news,” Donald Trump had a different message for the cable network on Sunday night. After bashing Fox News for “pushing Democrats and the Democrat agenda,” the former president offered his help to CNN in a post on his social media site, Truth Social. “If ‘low ratings’ CNN ever went Conservative, they would be an absolute gold mine, and I would help them to do so!” he wrote. The offer follows The Daily Beast’s reporting about Warner Bros. Discovery (CNN’s parent company) board member John Malone pushing to make the network more “centrist.” The peculiar Trump offer also comes in light of the ex-president threatening to sue CNN in recent weeks and subsequently fundraising off the non-existent lawsuit. A CNN representative declined to comment on Trump’s offer Monday morning when reached by The Daily Beast, and a Trump spokesperson didn’t return a request for comment.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-offers-to-help-cnn-after-years-of-calling-them-fake-news

[dalton99a]

1. Chris Licht is in orgasmic throes at the prospect

[agingdem]

10. CNN was never anything but FOX lite

with the exception of Jim Acosta, Daniel Dale, and one or two others…but all is not lost..while CNN and Chris Licht are slipping under the MAGA covers, young people are getting their news from podcasts like MeidasTouch, Brian Tyler Cohen, Politics Girl…and, yes, even Keith Olbermann’s Countdown…bye bye CNN..

FYI..I hear Chuck Todd may be available soon

[Marcus IM]

13. Jim Acosta is like a flag.

Apparently many have forgotten how right wing he was during President Obama’s term. From repeating the RW talking point about the O admin not taking on ISIS to O’s slightly relaxing US/Cuba policy.

He’s not MAGA, but he’s a republican.

[agingdem]

14. True but he hates Trump and Trump apologists

I suspect unless he tows the "both sides do it" line, he'll be out soon enough...

[niyad]

2. No way in hell that the F'n, murdering, orange TRAITOR** wrote that.

[lindysalsagal]

5. Right. That was a TV corporate insider.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Desperate Donnie Dipweed

Corporate McPravda loves a train wreck, especially when it destroys democracy in the process.

[sarcasmo]

4. The man who belongs in prison continues our descent into Fascism.

[dweller]

6. Never forget

ETTD …




✌🏻

[gulliver]

7. "I am big. It's the pictures (news) that got small."

Trump is starting to give off a Norma Desmond vibe.

And when did he ever find a "gold mine" that didn't involve grifting.

[Native]

8. "Fundraising off the nonexistent lawsuit." Why am I not surprised?

[underpants]

9. Big history of losing! he says?

From another thread. Sums it up perfectly


For the 2022 election cycle, smart Republicans had a clear and simple plan: Don’t let the election be about Trump. Make it about gas prices, or crime, or the border, or race, or sex education, or anything—anything but Trump. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. He lost control of the House in 2018. He lost the presidency in 2020. He lost both Senate seats in Georgia in 2021. Republicans had good reason to dread the havoc he’d create if he joined the fight in 2022.

[GoCubsGo]

11. If CNN wants to take business advice from a guy with multiple bankruptcies,

including a casino WHERE THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS (except for when he's running it), and who came close to bankrupting this entire country, they deserve everything that will be coming to them, and none of it will be good.

[Wounded Bear]

12. #ETTD...this should be fun...

[Shermann]

15. CNN Conservative News Network!

"Cable" is outdated anyway. Let the streaming shit flood flow!

[Just A Box Of Rain]

16. Has no one noticed that the "CNN is Going Right-wing" conspiracy theory

started with far-right Free Beacon and was then amplified by a reporter at the Daily Beast who was the Executive Editor at The National Enquirer and who before that worked for right-wing Murdoch owned newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic?

And now Trump is pushing the same conspiracy theory.

And he's getting a lot of help from people who really should know better.

Don't get suckered.

[IcyPeas]

17. he goads the media. and they fall for it every time.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. CNN made a real BAD Decision...

Link to tweet

[maxrandb]

20. Not too worry

He'll just file for bankruptcy, sell CNN's Pension Plans, grab his golden parachute and move on to the next acquisition while QNN runs stories about scofflaws getting a $10K break in College loans.

[maxrandb]

19. It's no longer CNN. It's QNN