Matt Gaetz urges Elon Musk to take over CNN
Matt Gaetz urged Elon Musk to look into buying CNN Sunday amid reports that the network has been struggling to attract viewers since the election.
The suggestion came just days after a Musk tweet suggested he could also consider buying MSNBC — a network seeing similar cratering in its viewership.
“Acquisition target @elonmusk?” the former Republican congressman tweeted on Sunday afternoon, along with a report showing CNN’s and MSNBC’s primetime audience drop.
The numbers came from Nielsen ratings, which Forbes reported showed CNN’s ratings fell by 47%, while MSNBC’s plummeted by 53%.
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Last month, Donald Trump Jr. had claimed he’d had the “funniest idea ever” after seeing a false report that MSNBC’s parent company was selling it.
“How much does it cost?” Musk wrote back.