One industry insider said: "Sidelining Acosta would also work to curry favor with Donald Trump, who very much despises the CNN anchor."

They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump,’ one media exeucitve said of the proposed move, adding that ‘midnight is not a serious offer’

CNN has told anchor Jim Acosta that they want to move him to from his morning ET slot to midnight ET, a less high profile time period where cable news networks have traditionally run reruns of programming from earlier in the day.