As part of his administration’s campaign against media critics who have been labeled “the opposition party,” Donaldย Trump has beenย publicly feuding with CNN for the majority of 2017.ย Heย even used aย Black History Month event on Wednesday morning to, once again, label the news networkย as “fake news.”
But the president’s frequent insults have not done anything to hurt CNN’sย ratings, so far.
CNN was up double digits in January compared to the same month in 2016, beating MSNBC in both total day and primetime viewers. CNN’s primetime lineup averaged 1.16 million total viewers, up 38 percent from last year.