President Trump slammed struggling mainstream news outlets overnight, characterizing them again as the “enemy of the people” and proclaiming their falling audience numbers as a “good thing.”

“Wow! Rachel Maddow has horrible ratings. She’ll be off the air very soon. MSNBC IS CLOSE TO DEATH. CNN HAS REACHED THE BOTTOM. This is a good thing. They are the Enemy of the people,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post an hour past midnight on Friday.

Maddow, MSNBC’s star anchor, has returned to hosting her prime-time show for the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency, a shift viewed by some as a way to offset the numbers the network lost after the 2024........

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