President Trump’s message knocked the former CNN president’s likability.
QUICK FACTS:
- Donald J. Trump released an official message on Thursday taking aim at disgraced former CNN president Jeff Zucker, who resigned abruptly the day before.
- Zucker had claimed he stepped down because after being asked about a relationship with CNN marketing chief Allison Gollust, he did not disclose the relationship.
- “I was wrong. As a result, I am resigning today,” Zucker wrote in a memo to staffers.
- But President Trump suggested Zucker left CNN “because of horrible ratings down 90%, an all-time low!” Trump wrote.
- Trump also teased that Zucker is “happy and proud (and lucky!) that he can have a relationship” at all.
- CNN’s ratings are down roughly 90% year-over-year, Fox News reported, the news network’s averaged 548,000 viewers for the first week of 2022 being down from 2.7 million in 2021.
TRUMP’S FULL STATEMENT:
Jeff Zucker is not out at CNN for “concealing a relationship” as the Fake New York Times writes on its front page headline. Zucker is happy and proud (and lucky!) that he can have a relationship. He is out because of horrible ratings down 90%, an all-time low!
BACKGROUND:
- President Trump released a message yesterday calling Jeff Zucker “a world-class sleazebag who has headed ratings and real-news-challenged CNN for far too long.”
- He went on to say that Zucker “has been terminated for numerous reasons, but predominantly because CNN has lost its way with viewers and everybody else. Now is a chance to put Fake News in the backseat because there may not be anything more important than straightening out the horrendous LameStream Media in our Country, and in the case of CNN, throughout the World.”
- “Jeff Zucker is gone—congratulations to all!” he concluded.
