President Trump on Wednesday said a Fox News White House correspondent “should be working for CNN.”

“I watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend and I thought she was absolutely terrible. She should be working for CNN, not Fox,” Trump said.

“Not surprisingly, I later found out that she’s a fan of the White House Correspondents Association!” he added.

Per Independent:

Filling in for regular anchor Shannon Bream this past Sunday, Heinrich may have drawn the president’s ire for grilling Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) over Trump’s recent White House infomercial for Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla outside the White House, complete with the president vowing to purchase one himself.

“There was basically a display at the White House there. He surveyed some cars. It was happening as, you know, [while] Americans’ 401(k) accounts were facing some struggles because of this tariff war happening right now,” she noted.

“Was that an appropriate thing for the president to do there? Was it sensitive to the moment that we are in buying a car, using the White House as a backdrop for that?” Heinrich asked.

The president may have also been spurred to rage at Heinrich just four days after her hosting gig due to her pointed questions during Wednesday’s White House press briefing, during which she grilled press secretary Karoline Leavitt about the battle between the administration and a federal judge who blocked Trump’s deportation flights under Alien Enemies Act.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump just went off on Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich.

Yikes.

"I thought she was absolutely terrible. She should be working for CNN, not Fox. Not surprisingly, I later found out that she’s a fan of the White House Correspondents Association!" pic.twitter.com/QL6xAdORdO

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 19, 2025

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume defended Heinrich.

“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.

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. https://t.co/cUswKLQPuX

— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 19, 2025

Mediaite reports:

Trump’s criticism of Heinrich also came less than two hours after Heinrich asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about her colleague Andy McCarthy’s analysis of the high-profile deportation case before Judge James Boasberg at the moment.

Leavitt responded by telling Heinrich that the administration disagreed “with the legal opinion of the individual that you mentioned” and even going so far as to say that “anybody trying to defend these terrorists who have now been sent off of American soil should talk to the families of the individuals who these heinous monsters have killed and have raped.”

“If you talk to those families, they are so heartened by the president’s decision to take tough action, and to use his executive authority,” she added.