Posted on 05/06/2026 10:43:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Trump has issued a statement on the passing of CNN founder Ted Turner, and it is quite different from other deaths of noted rich liberals.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Turner, the left-wing billionaire who founded CNN, died today at the age of 87.
In addition to founding CNN, Turner was a prominent philanthropist who once donated $1 billion to the United Nations. Turner also gave $1.3 million to Democrats and Democratic causes throughout his life.
No cause of death has been revealed yet, but Turner announced in 2018 that he had Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder.
Turner was also hospitalized early last year with pneumonia before recovering at a rehabilitation facility.
Trump responded to Turner’s passing with grace, despite their political differences. He noted Turner’s mark on the media landscape while also stating the CNN founder had hated everything his “baby” had become.
Trump also called Turner a good friend who was always there when he needed him.
Ted Turner, one of the Greats of All Time, just died. He founded CNN, sold it, and was personally devastated by the Deal because the new ownership took CNN, his “baby,” and destroyed it.
It became woke, and everything that he is not all about.
Maybe the new buyers, wonderful people, will be able to bring it back to its former credibility and glory. Regardless, however, one of the Greats of Broadcast History, and a friend of mine.
Whenever I needed him, he was there, always willing to fight for a good cause! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Last December, Trump created a firestorm over his reaction to the grisly murder of leftist Hollywood Director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele.
For years, Reiner had attacked President Trump as “mentally unfit for office” and floated all of the lefty conspiracy theories about Russia collusion.
“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS, Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump is anything but predictable when it comes to reacting to the deaths of those he disagrees with on political issues.
I watched coverage on Atlanta’s Ted Turner on Atlanta News First (Gray Media). I always find it interesting in these “obituary” news features how some controversial figures are portrayed.
Some obits are all glowing praise. Some are factual. Some avoid the controversial. Some belabor the controversial. Some are biased one way, or the other.
This one was all glowing praise or a fellow Atlantan media figure. But only a brief mention of wife Jane Fonda.
Great movie.🍿
FWIW
Jane Fonda is 88 years old.
Only the good die young................
Tell me he didn’t leave it to Hanoi Jane...
Agree.
Jimi Hendrix dead at 27. Jane Fonda spouting off at age 88.
Sharyl Attkisson
Back then CNN literally OWNED the 24 hour news business.
They threw it away when they made the choice to become a mouthpiece for the democrat party crazies.
Ted’s Montana Grill was the single WORST dining experience of my life.
Sure he was a leftist, but his boys were eagle scoundrel and he let the Boy Scouts use land next to philmont for hiking, the trek we chose went through it it was called some like val vedel
No trails, no campsites, just bushwhacking
Valle Vidal! When I worked for the Boy Scouts in 2000s, I had a chance to tour the area with Philmont’s program director. He told me that the deal was literally a handshake deal that Turner would make year to year. No strings attached.
Was awesome, my recollection is that no official trails and no campsites.
Guys proved their orienteering, pre GPS days
Eagle Scouts not scoundrels, geez
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