The timeline below shows the total daily airtime (smoothed using a 7-day rolling average) across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News that mentioned Donald Trump since July 2009 using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. Trump's meteoric rise to media superstardom begam in June 2015 and peaked with his November 2016 election, dropping over his first year to a around 10-15% of daily airtime from October 2017 through the pandemic. Since May of this year it has been surging back to pre-2020 levels, but has dropped sharply since the election.