Don: I’m ‘right’ for a new CNN
Former President Donald Trump bizarrely suggested Friday that his longtime foes at CNN shift toward conservative coverage — and make him the centerpiece — to save the struggling cable network.
“If CNN were smart, they’d open up a Conservative network, only have me on, and it would be the most successful network in History,” Trump wrote on his struggling social-media platform Truth Social on Friday.
“Fox only made it because of me, Twitter only made it because of me, and even Facebook is now in the tubes, having lost almost $90 billion since I was taken off, which was considered one of the biggest mistakes in business over the last two years,” Trump added.
Trump made his strange assertion while facing mounting criticism from conservatives who blame him for stunting a red wave in the midterm elections. Many of Trump’s handpicked candidates, such as far-right nationalist Doug Mastriano and Dr. Mehmet Oz, lost their races.
Trump’s rant for a conservative shift at CNN comes as network president Chris Licht seeks to push it away from left-leaning commentary toward nonpartisan coverage. The Post has reached out to CNN for comment.
The twice-impeached Republican also took aim at The Post over its cover story headlined “Trumpty Dumpty,” which detailed how “toxic Trump” had derailed the GOP’s cause in the midterms and failed on his promise to build a wall at the southern border.
“The New York Post today has a story about the Wall, but my progress on the Wall was slowed down by News Corp Board Member Paul Ryan, who together with the Broken Old Crow Mitch McConnell, weren’t able to get me the funds,” Trump said.“I ended up getting them anyway . . . and completed the Wall plus certain additions that were made, which could have been done in three weeks, but no, the Biden Administration stupidly wanted Open Borders.”