President Trump has brutally bashed MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, promising she will soon be “off the air.”
In a late post on his Truth Social account, the Commander-in-Chief said: “Wow! Rachel Maddow has terrible ratings. She will be off the air soon.
‘MSNBC IS CLOSE TO DEATH. CNN HAS REACHED THE BOTTOM. This is a good thing. They are the enemy of the people!’
Trump’s comments came after Maddow compared him to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro on Wednesday.
The outspoken liberal was speaking about Trump’s recent pardon on January 6 when she made this comment.
Maddow, MSNBC’s top dog in ratings, launched into a tirade that began with complaints about Stewart Rhodes, the released founder of the far-right Oath Keepers.
Rhodes, like several others, was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his part in the rebellion.
More than a hundred police officers were injured in the 2021 riot, and Maddow — despite the fact that one of them was a proponent of “defunding the police” — was unwilling to let that happen.
In a late post to his Truth Social account, the commander-in-chief said Maddow would soon be off the air

Trump’s comments came after Maddow, seen here, compared him to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro on Wednesday
After specifically mentioning Rhodes, she told viewers, “There are rumors going around that Trump wanted to bring his thugs — these guys who had violently attacked police and been convicted of it — all to the White House too.
“That kind of thing probably sounded great at a Trump rally,” she continued, seemingly ad-libbing at this point.
“It probably sounded like it was something people wanted when you were talking about this stuff at a Trump rally.
“At one of your Fidel Castro, Castro-esque, you know, three-and-a-half-hour, rambunctious speeches,” she continued, quickly repeating the combination.
She couldn’t help but add, “Where most people left before you got halfway through.”
Maddow also took issue with the presence of tech billionaires at Trump’s inauguration earlier this week.
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Apple’s Tim Cook were invited to the ceremony.
During a broadcast she had said: ‘How does this happen in America?’, while her co-host Chris Hayes compared him to a ‘cult leader’.

In a late-night post, Trump said MSNBC was “almost dead” and that “CNN had hit bottom”
The network has struggled with viewership declines, with former company president Rashida Jones stepping down earlier this month.
Insiders told Variety that Jones decided to leave after “an intense cycle,” which would see Maddow return to a five-night hosting schedule after losing ground to rivals CNN and Fox News in viewership.
Maddow had previously reduced her hosting duties to one night a week, but resumed her five-night schedule for the first 100 days of Trump’s administration. presidency in hopes of attracting lost viewers.
Last month, new bosses at the media company that oversees MSNBC began making clear they want more Republican votes on the left-wing network.
It came weeks after the CEO reportedly cut Rachel Maddow’s pay by about $5 million after she agreed to stay with the network for another five years.
She reportedly earned a salary of $30 million for her weekly show – the second-highest paid anchor in television news, after Fox News’ Sean Hannity, who raked in $45 million.
As of the day after the 2024 election, MSNBC is averaging about 603,000 primetime viewers — compared to 3.2 million for Fox News.
According to Nielsen data, seen by AdweekMSNBC’s primetime lineup averaged approximately 758,000 viewers for the week of January 13.