There were very few people mourning the national airwaves’ loss when CNN’s anchor and chief domestic correspondent,’ Jim Acosta, quit his job in a fit of pique this past January.
Rather than take a demotion to stay on air, Acosta huffily stomped off the network in a blazing, self-righteous flameout.
CNN anchor Jim Acosta, an irritant to President Donald Trump as a former White House correspondent, says he’s quitting the network rather than accept an offer for a new late-night time slot.
Acosta announced his departure Tuesday at the end of his one-hour morning show on the network, telling viewers: “Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear.”
He didn’t specifically tie those sentiments to Trump, but the implication was clear. CNN says its decision to move Acosta out of the daylight and into a time slot to begin at midnight Eastern time had nothing to do with politics.
There was little weeping or eulogizing of the bilious Acosta’s departure.
…Less than a half hour before Acosta’s announcement, Trump posted on social media that rumors that the anchor was leaving were good news. “Jim is a major loser who will fail no matter where he ends up,” Trump said on Truth Social.
Lucky for the blowhard, there were enough rabid progressives who were freaking out about Trump’s impending ascension and government takeover who then jumped at the chance to buy into the newly unemployed Acosta’s Substack rantings. At $8 a month, I guess it was cheaper than a cable bill, and Acosta quickly cleaned up with an incredibly healthy subscriber base eager to subject themselves to his online opinings.
Jim Acosta will likely soon be paid more than he was at CNN, six weeks after he quit in January amid fallout from the election.
Instead of getting a new cable news or TV job, he started a Substack page where he mostly rails against Donald Trump and his administration.
Acosta’s Substack has amassed 282,000 subscribers, more than 10,000 of whom have paid access, which is on pace to earn him well over $1 million.
Paid plans available include a monthly one for $8 and an annual for $80. An option billed as a ‘Founding Member’ plan – also lasting a year – is available for $240.
Substack only takes a 10 per cent commission on earnings through its platform, so even if 10,000 subscribers chose the yearly plan, he would net $720,000 a year.
Acosta also started a podcast, as everyone does except me, so far.
…The Jim Acosta Show includes daily hour-long podcasts, which he said get 150,000 to 200,000 views each, plus other content that is paid-only.
And so far, for such a well-known blowhard with an extremely high opinion of himself, reviews are few…
…but he’s trucking along with the usual suspects one sees bouncing around these mutual admiration and TDS bitching social clubs as guests.
Of course, there are over 4.6M podcasts chirping and churning along now, so making a dent in the numbers is difficult for anyone, even someone as well-known and presumably popular in a progressive circle or two as the smugly superior Acosta.
Tellingly, Acosta has used the parting shot from his last CNN appearance as the motto for his new venture.
Don’t give into the lies. Don’t give into fear. Hold on to the truth.
Which is a giggle in itself as he and ‘the truth’ were only close when he was massaging it to suit his ends.
What he released as an ‘interview’ yesterday on his podcast was so far from the truth as to be fantasy. In point of fact, it was. But it was also such an unbelievably manipulative, ghoulish sideshow freak move that you wonder if the man ever had any integrity at all that he could even contemplate such a craven exercise in pure lack of judgment.
Joaquin Oliver was 17 years old when he was shot and killed in 2018, in a hallway at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
For an anti-Second Amendment, pro-gun control piece, Jim Acosta interviewed Oliver’s AI recreation on his podcast yesterday.
A show you don’t want to miss at 4p ET / 1p PT. I’ll be having a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018. But his parents have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence. Plus Texas State… pic.twitter.com/mbdM2WxwUR
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 4, 2025
…’He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018. But his parents have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence.’
The interview essentially showed an AI recreation of Oliver speaking about gun control on what would’ve been the victim’s 25th birthday.
‘Joaquin, I would like to know what your solution would be for gun violence,’ Acosta asked.
‘Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard. It’s about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think about that?’
‘I think that’s a great idea, Joaquin,’ he responded.
And much as Jake Tapper figured to be the hero when his book exposing the truth of what we all knew already that they were hiding about the mushroom in the Oval Office, Acosta expected his clever emotional ploy to earn him plaudits from both the rabid gun control crowd plus mental health advocates, and his tender-hearted, easily swayed listeners.
What he got, instead, was justifiably wrecked.
Journalists dont root for a side. They dig through graves and stick their hands up a corpses ass to make them puppet their talking points. That’s all https://t.co/LQL2ipk5rW pic.twitter.com/pqyGXvekmg
— Kyle Beckley (@Kyle_Beckley) August 4, 2025
What was deliciously worse for the disgusting, soulless ghoul is the reaction from the very people he thought would be lauding his revolting fever dream interview – the foaming-at-the-mouth cretins who inhabit Blue Sky.
Surely they – who could celebrate and mock the death of the innocent Blackstone executive shot in Manhattan last week with such relish and depraved joy – would applaud clever, clever Jim for bringing the slaughtered dead back to life!
‘…You’re using a child’s corpse…’
No one was surprised except Acosta, who turned off the replies to his Xweet as they were running a tad…let’s say ‘hot.’
Why is anyone surprised that Jim Acosta would prostitute himself with an AI generated image of a dead student? https://t.co/ynVTp4jBmG pic.twitter.com/e6ybeeytJG
— TugboatPhil – American Boomer (@TugboatPhil) August 5, 2025
And the craven coward, instead of slinking off or apologizing, doubled down with a hearty, piteous cry of ‘OLIVER’S PARENTS MADE ME DO IT!!!’
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 5, 2025
Seeing dead people, if you can use the corpse to your advantage, is no big deal to the depraved Acostas of the world.
What’s pretty cool is that it is still a big deal to so, SO many others, and they didn’t hesitate to swarm this sick, twisted sumbitch for it.
NEW: in an interview I conducted with AI recreations of Jim Acosta’s parents, they confirm he’s always been a cringe idiot and they are eternally disappointed in him.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) August 5, 2025
Jim didn’t get to be the hero in his fairy tale.
He wound up back where he belongs – the troll under the bridge.
Makes me smile.
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