If we had to pick a meme to represent the ratings information that will ensue here, it would be this one:
Ratings like these help explain CNN’s obvious desperation to find another foil on the Right to replace what they lost after Trump left office:
Cable News Rankings Mon May 24
1⃣@TuckerCarlson
2⃣@TheFive @DanaPerino @GregGutfeld @JesseBWatters @TheJuanWilliams @KatiePavlich
3⃣@SeanHannity
4⃣@Maddow
5⃣@BretBaier
6⃣@IngrahamAngle
7⃣@Lawrence
8⃣@LawrenceBJones3
9⃣@AriMelber
🔟@ChrisLHayes pic.twitter.com/6XKM5k70rd— RoadMN (@RoadMN) May 25, 2021
Yikes!
Zero CNN programs hit the 1 million mark. https://t.co/OdM2lE7yrI
— Christopher Bedford (@CBedfordDC) May 26, 2021
And it doesn’t help CNN’s ratings that so many of their hosts and reporters spend their time glued to Fox News.
CNN's ratings are falling faster than Coronavirus cases. https://t.co/QVa4C2IrkK
— Kris Kinder (@kris_kinder) May 26, 2021
Fact check: TRUE.
CNN is basically the national anthem when I was a kid.
— Gurgun (@Gurgun1989) May 26, 2021
Every CNN show in the basement! https://t.co/1DthWHMywU
— JeanneInWa (@ConservativeBu7) May 26, 2021
@Gutfeldfox got more viewers at 11 PM than Anderson Cooper at 8 PM. #Gutfeld https://t.co/fmi3Yb7x5c
— Mike LaChance (@MikeLaChance33) May 26, 2021
CNN last eight spots. Nobody is watching CNN. https://t.co/GeBm1sPIBS
— Barbara Chiles (@CampNewaygo9yrs) May 26, 2021
They go out of their way to make it completely unwatchable.