Fox News celebrates ratings boom during Trump’s first 100 days of second term

Published April 30, 2025 2:23pm ET



Fox News Channel wrapped the first 100 days of President Donald Trump‘s second term with an average of almost 2 million viewers per day, outpacing its ratings from the previous two administrations.

The uptick in viewership contrasts with Fox News’s competition, such as CNN, which saw its ratings drop by almost 60% among both prime-time and total viewers. MSNBC also experienced a double-digit decline in its ratings as the network fired Joy Reid, among other programming changes.

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