Donald Trump bestowed Fox News star Jacqui Heinrich with the worst insult he could think of by suggesting she should work at liberal CNN instead after she criticized his Tesla event at the White House.
The president turned the South Lawn of the White House into a Tesla showroom last week with five different models – including the infamous Cybertruck – on display on the driveway.
Heinrich spoke somewhat critically of the ‘display’ in an interview with Ohio GOP Senator Bernie Moreno Sunday, where she also asked about Tesla’s open letter to the Trump administration concerned over Trump’s tariff war.
The anchor – who has been critical of Trump and her own network in the past and even in that same Sunday broadcast – asked Moreno: ‘Was that an appropriate thing for the president to do there?’
Heinrich also played skeptic with national security advisor Mike Waltz, asking him if Trump was getting ‘played’ by Vladimir Putin.
Trump posted to Truth Social on Wednesday: ‘I watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend and I thought she was absolutely terrible.’
The president then delivered the worst insult he could think of about the Fox News star.
‘She should be working for CNN, not Fox,’ he quipped.
Donald Trump gave Fox News star Jacqui Heinrich as devastating an insult as he could think of by suggesting she should work at liberal CNN instead after he criticized his Tesla event at the White House
Trump posted to Truth Social on Wednesday: ‘I watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend and I thought she was absolutely terrible’
Trump then added: ‘Not surprisingly, I later found out that she’s a fan of the White House Correspondents Association!’
Heinrich is indeed a board member of the White House Correspondents Association.
Longtime Fox News fixture Brit Hume raced to his colleague’s defense in a post to X later Wednesday.
‘I watched her too. She plays it straight, covering both sides of a story and has certainly played fair with you. You may have a case against some White House reporters, but not @JacquiHeinrich,’ Hume said.
On the same show that offended Trump on Sunday, she annoyed Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz for asking if the president was getting ‘played’ by Vladimir Putin.
The question came as the U.S. is working to broker a ceasefire deal between Ukraine and Russia as war has raged since Russia invaded.
Heinrich posed the question while Waltz was appearing on Fox News Sunday.
She noted that a European intelligence service uncovered a document prepared for the Kremlin on how to stall at the same time Russia first came to the negotiating table and pointed out much of the document has played out.
Trump posted to Truth Social on Wednesday: ‘I watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend and I thought she was absolutely terrible.’ The president then delivered the worst insult he could think of about the Fox News star. ‘She should be working for CNN, not Fox,’ he quipped
Heinrich quoted The Washington Post report which detailed how Russia can boost its negotiating position by proposing access to Russian minerals, reject peacekeepers and propose demilitarize zones.
‘How do you know President Trump isn’t being played right now by Putin?’ Heinrich asked.
‘Well look, that’s almost laughable,’ Waltz said after a pause.
‘I’ll take President Trump in dealing with the likes of Xi, of Kim Jong Un, with Putin and others certainly ahead of his predecessor,’ Waltz declared.
He noted comments from both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky while insisting ‘only President Trump could drive this to an end.’
‘We know who we’re dealing with,’ Waltz claimed. ‘We know who we’re dealing with on all sides.’
The national security adviser said the U.S. will continue to negotiate and use ‘carrots and sticks to get both sides to the table.’
He would not say however whether the U.S. would put sanctions on Russia after Trump made the threat last week on social media.
Longtime Fox News fixture Brit Hume raced to his colleague’s defense in a post to X later Wednesday
Trump added: ‘Not surprisingly, I later found out that she’s a fan of the White House Correspondents Association!’ Heinrich is indeed a board member of the WHCA
Heinrich played a role in the defamation suit filed against Fox by Dominion voting systems, which was settled at a cost of $787.5 million and led to the network firing Tucker Carlson.
The Wall Street Journal said that executives were angry at the ‘disparaging and derogatory remarks’ he made about colleagues, including a plea to get White House reporter Jacqui Heinrich fired for fact-checking Donald Trump, and calling his bosses ‘incompetent liberals’ and ‘f******’.
Shortly after the 2020 election, Carlson pointed Hannity to a tweet by Heinrich, which fact-checked a tweet by Trump that mentioned Dominion voting conspiracy theories.
‘There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,’ she wrote.
Carlson texted Hannity and Ingraham: ‘Please get her fired. Seriously … What the f***? I’m actually shocked. It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.’
He said he raised Heinrich’s factually accurate tweet with Meade Cooper, the executive vice president of programing.
‘I just went crazy on Meade over it,’ Carlson wrote.
Heinrich deleted her offending tweet, though she posted a nearly identical fact-check of Trump afterwards.
Heinrich played a role in the defamation suit filed against Fox by Dominion voting systems, which was settled at a cost of $787.5 million and led to the network firing Tucker Carlson
Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz fired back after Heinrich suggested the president is ‘being played’ by Putin is almost ‘laughable’ in a tense exchange on Fox News
Fox did not give any reason for the departure of their most-watched news anchor, saying on Monday: ‘Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
Heinrich, 36, was promoted to the post of Senior White House Correspondent just this past June.
She has often gotten into stare downs with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on various issues.
Henrich also criticized the Trump administration’s decision to not give wire services like the Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters, a permanent spot in the pool saying it ‘gives power to the White House, not the people.’
She also once infamously angered former President Joe Biden in one of his rare forays into speaking with the media.
Ahead of a 2022 infrastructure meeting at the White House, Heinrich asked the president: ‘Why are you waiting on Putin to make the first move, sir?’
‘What a stupid question,’ Biden replied after lightly chuckling.