Musk: One Billion People Engaged with Trump Interview. CNN Seethes.

CNN and other liberal media outlets could hardly contain their jealousy on Monday after Donald Trump's much-anticipated interview with immigrant job creator Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter) and other successful tech companies, enjoyed historic ratings.

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More than 1.3 million listeners tuned in live to hear the business titans discuss current affairs on the social media platform's "X Space" livestream feature and has subsequently accumulated more than 1 billion views, Musk wrote on Tuesday. That is more than double the 606,000 primetime viewers CNN averaged during the first quarter of 2024, the vast majority of whom we can only assume are nursing home patients who fell asleep in their favorite chairs.

Not surprisingly, CNN and other liberal outlets published an array of negative headlines about the Trump interview. 

Ed Morrissey

Just the live number is impressive, and it goes to show that consumers of news will go where news takes place. It might not seem like news to CNN, but only one of the two major-party candidates is willing to speak live and extemporaneously with any kind of interviewer or interlocutor. Maybe they should ask why the other isn't. That would be news, too. 

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