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

Depending on who you ask, CNN anchor Jim Acosta is getting a chance to speak to a much broader audience with an assignment at a new and non-traditional time slot, or he’s being removed entirely from the usual daily discussion around the news.

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.

CNN is apparently plotting to exile star anchor Jim Acosta — a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump — to the “Siberia of television news” in a bid to “throw a bone” at the incoming commander-in-chief,

According to a report in former CNN reporter Oliver Darcy’s Status newsletter, CNN chief Mark Thompson allegedly called Acosta on Wednesday night (January 15) to deliver a “strange proposal” that caught the veteran broadcaster off guard.

CNN officials may be considering shuttling journalist Jim Acosta to the night shift, and many think it's because of his feud with President-elect Donald Trump.

The CNN anchor capped off his monologue by holding up a bright pink poster that was given to him by a viewer at the start of Trump’s first administration in 2016. The placard featured a hand-drawn fist holding a pencil below the words, “I March For Jim Acosta and a FREE PRESS.”