You might think everybody hates Scott during segments featuring CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings where despite what are supposed to be balanced panels, he regularly seems to be the only Trump supporter in the room. No doubt, it is not easy being Scott Jennings at CNN and overcoming that is part of how he demonstrates how good he is at what he does, and makes him so influential. His bosses clearly recognize his immense value to CNN NewsNight and plenty of other shows across the lineup. Jennings is a star whose Jim-from-The Office side-eye glances, and impassioned, but not entirely obsequious, defenses of President Donald Trump and his administration provide some balance to a brand which many on the right believe badly needs it if CNN is going to keep claiming they aren’t picking sides.
In 2025, Jennings not only started his own popular syndicated radio show, but joined Trump at a rally, flirted with running to replace his old boss in the Senate, and wrote his first book – a New York Times bestseller that earned a fawning blurb from Trump himself: “Scott totally gets it.” And that’s to say nothing of the lucrative, multi-year deal he signed at CNN with CBS’s Bari Weiss’s reportedly in pursuit of him too.
So no, not everybody hates Scott. Far from it. He just may be presenting a case many CNN viewers aren’t all that interested in hearing.
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