President Donald Trump’s crusade against Jimmy Kimmel spectacularly backfired after the talk show host’s return to the air generated enormous interest, according to CNN’s top data analyst.

Harry Enten said the average YouTube view count for Jimmy Kimmel Live! is around 240,000, but Tuesday night’s episode, following the show’s brief suspension, had more than 6.7 million views as of Wednesday morning.

“That’s over 25 times the median Jimmy Kimmel video normally gets, and it is by far the largest video in at least six months,” the chief CNN data guru said. “So if Donald Trump’s idea was to give Jimmy Kimmel more press and more viewership, he absolutely did. Of course, I don’t think that is what Donald Trump intended to do.”

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