Jake Tapper’s Ratings Drop in May Despite Wall-to-Wall Media Tour for Biden Decline Book
“Tapper’s newscast averaged only 95,000 viewers among the critical demo from April 28 through May 25, for a 15% drop.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper is everywhere right now. He has appeared on multiple media platforms in recent weeks, promoting his new book about Joe Biden’s mental decline and the associated scandal.
Despite the constant promotion, ratings for his CNN show declined in May to their lowest level since 2015.
FOX News reports:
Jake Tapper’s CNN show hits lowest ratings since 2015 despite new Biden book buzz, intense publicity tour
CNN host Jake Tapper had his lowest-rated month in nearly a decade in May despite a whirlwind publicity tour giving him an onslaught of attention.
Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson’s new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” was released in May to much fanfare. The book helped set the recent news cycle with new accusations of the Biden White House hiding the truth about the former president’s fitness for office.
To promote the project, Tapper has embarked on a wide-ranging book tour that landed him on a variety of podcasts, talk shows and cable news. The book has also been promoted relentlessly across CNN, but the spotlight on Tapper has seemingly failed to give him a boost in viewership.
“The Lead with Jake Tapper” averaged 525,000 total viewers from April 28 through May 25, shedding 25% of CNN’s audience in its timeslot from the same period last year in the process…
It was Tapper’s lowest-rated month since August 2015.
“The Lead with Jake Tapper” is also down from last year among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 25-54. Tapper’s newscast averaged only 95,000 viewers among the critical demo from April 28 through May 25, for a 15% drop.
Perhaps people are tuning Tapper out because they can see what his real goals are in writing and promoting this book.
Jake Tapper is not alone. According to John Nolte of Breitbart News, CNN is cratering across the board:
CNN’s Primetime Audience Sinks to Pathetic 405K
CNN’s glorious ratings collapse is only growing more glorious as its weekly average viewership collapsed to just 405,000 during the week of May 12.
And that was during primetime.
Over the course of the total day, CNNLOL’s average viewership sank to a humiliating 341,000 viewers.
In the all-important 25-54 age demo that sets advertising rates, CNN attracted an average of only 74,000 viewers during primetime, and a pathetic 58,000 average over the total day.
Compared to this same week last year, CNN lost -16 percent of its primetime viewers and -28 percent of total day viewers.
The problem for Jake Tapper and CNN is that everyone knows the role they played in the Biden charade. We watched them do it for four years. I’ll leave you with this stunning side-by-side clip.
Jake Tapper explains how the Biden White House was able to “sell” the Cheap Fakes false narrative to a “gullible press” including NYT and WAPO.
What Jake fails to mention is that this “gullible press” included his own network.
Of course, the “gullible press” cover is a lie in… pic.twitter.com/4kNG1lXPGR
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 29, 2025
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Perhaps the ratings drop is due to the odor of obvious perfidy and gaslighting being as instinctlvely repugnant to real Americans as the odor of decomp. And in that group I would have to include honest Democrats, because they would be the only ones watching CNN to begin with.
Tapper is journalistic prune juice.
“A Social Justice Warrior’s Drink!”
Good. Drop to zero.
Were it not for airports they wouldn’t have that many.
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“Jake Tapper’s ratings drop in May BECAUSE OF his wall-to-wall media tour for Biden decline book.” FIFY.
I like to point out to the Bernie brothers that the first stolen elction of 2020 was the SC Primary. The Left cancelled them just as easily as they cancelled the conservatives in the November. They may not like us at the moment, but at least we aren’t lying to them, and who they REALLY want as friends is their choice. Tapper has outed himself to all as a liar, and anyone who listens to him does so at their own risk.