Acosta, who frequently clashed with Trump in his first term, is leaving CNN after being stripped of his morning show and offered a midnight program in its place.

After a 20-year long career at CNN, news anchor Jim Acosta and longtime critic of President Donald Trump announced he is leaving the network. CNN announced last week — just as Trump began his second term — that it was shuffling its daytime lineup to move Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown into Acosta’s 10 a.

Jim Acosta is leaving his longtime home of CNN. The anchor’s decision to depart the cable news network comes five days after it was reported that The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer’s long-running evening program,