Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta has taken a swipe at supporters of President Donald Trump, claiming only Democrat voters want to “hear the truth.”
In an interview published Friday, Acosta suggested that Trump voters are uninterested in the truth.
Acosta spoke with The Washingtonian shortly after his exit earlier this year from CNN.
After leaving CNN, Acosta launched his new Substack video outlet.
During the interview, Acosta said news outlets should put more emphasis on “fact-checking” Trump in his second administration.
“I think it does make a difference,” he said.
“Half the country still wants to hear the truth.”
Acosta said he used to tell college students that they shouldn’t go into journalism because of how much time they lose.
However, he’s apparently changed his tune and is now pleading for “reinforcements.”
Acosta told The Washingtonian:
“When I go talk to college students, I used to say, ‘Don’t go into this business. You’re going to lose your weekends and your holidays, and your mother’s going to say, You don’t call me anymore.’
“And now I tell them, ‘Please come into this business, because we need reinforcements.'”
Like many in the liberal corporate media. Acosta didn’t hide his feelings about Trump while at CNN.
As a White House correspondent, he often sparred with Trump and his press secretaries in melodramatic fashion.
He also editorialized during his reporting, such as scolding Kim Kardashian for being at the White House to discuss criminal justice reform.
Acosta also complained that it was “xenophobic” to use the term “Wuhan coronavirus” to describe the coronavirus that emerged from Wuhan, China.
At one point, he also recited the poem from the Statue of Liberty.
When former President Joe Biden took office in 2021, anti-Trump Acosta was moved off the White House beat and onto an anchor job.
Shortly after Trump’s return to office this year, he was offered an assuredly low-rated midnight slot.
However, he turned it down and left CNN in January.
In a “town hall” he held with a series of liberal media figures this week, including former CNN colleague Don Lemon, Acosta referred to the “show” Trump and his team put on every day as “sh—y.”
“We have to teach Americans, teach people to be more media-literate,” Lemon said.
“What Donald Trump does is a show.”
“Every single day, you have to realize from morning until the end, ’til midnight, it’s a show that is produced like a television show.
“Every single day.”
“A pretty sh—y one, but yes,” Acosta replied, to laughter from the audience.
WATCH:
This is good. Don Lemon and Jim Acosta trash the daily “Trump show” coming from the White House. Michael Cohen calls Karoline Leavitt “bullsh*t Barbie”. (Video: The Jim Acosta Show) pic.twitter.com/SUozv5qRCq
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) April 16, 2025
