A Mother’s Day interview on Fox News sparked one of President Donald Trump’s most blistering public attacks yet on the conservative network, with the 79-year-old singling out co-anchor Jacqui Heinrich by name in a scathing Truth Social tirade that also targeted the Supreme Court, Iran, and Democratic lawmakers.
Heinrich became collateral damage on May 10, 2026, after she interviewed Rep. Ro Khanna on “The Sunday Briefing.” Trump watched the segment and erupted, posting more than a dozen times throughout the day in what became a digital assault on Fox News — the network that helped fuel his political rise.
“You could listen to FoxNews all day long, absolutely devour it, but then, when you hear SLEAZEBAGS, like Congressman Ro Khanna, ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing,’ LIE, LIE, LIE, AND LIE AGAIN, without any pushback, or competent rebuttal from an anchor, in this case, Jacqui Heinrich, the entire Common Sense dialogue that has been going on all day at Fox is completely obliterated!” Trump fumed on Truth Social.
A Holiday Meltdown Aimed at Fox
Trump’s first salvo branded Khanna a “sleazebag” and accused Heinrich of failing to push back on the congressman’s claims about American manufacturing. Two hours later, the president doubled down with an even harsher missive, suggesting Fox News should not be booking Democrats unless its anchors are willing to dismantle their arguments on air.
Trump escalated further, declaring that “MAGA Republicans, who are actually close to 100% of the Party, hate Fox.” He lumped Bill Maher and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries among figures the network should never platform. The statement represented a striking reversal for a politician whose career had been inseparable from the network for years.
Khanna seemed delighted to have rattled the president. In a statement, the congressman noted he had just completed a Heartland Tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan the previous week and urged Trump to focus on an upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping instead of feuding with cable news. He also took a direct swing at Trump’s White House construction project, posting: “The man building a ballroom with foreign steel probably shouldn’t call himself the champion of American steel.”
The jab landed close to home. Trump’s White House ballroom is reportedly being built using tens of millions of dollars’ worth of donated steel produced in Europe — even as the president demanded in another post that “ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST BUY AMERICAN — NO EXCUSES!”
A 232-Word Screed on Iran
Trump opened May 10 with a 232-word first post of the day blaming former President Barack Obama for the war with Iran that Trump himself launched in late February. Trump claimed Obama handed Tehran “$1.7 Billion in green cash” on a silver platter and accused Iran of recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protesters.
The timing was telling. Trump’s online tantrum landed just as the Iranian government submitted its response to a U.S. peace proposal, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declaring on social media that “we will never bow our heads before the enemy.” Trump’s war has shuttered the Strait of Hormuz under a U.S. blockade, sending global oil markets into chaos. The following day, Trump rejected Tehran’s response outright, calling the proposal “unacceptable” and “a piece of garbage,” and declared the ceasefire to be on “massive life support.” Administration officials subsequently told Israeli media that Trump was increasingly leaning toward resuming major combat operations. Departing for Beijing on May 12 to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump told reporters: “They’re defeated militarily, and they’ll either do the right thing, or we’ll finish the job.”
For good measure, Trump also aimed at former President Joe Biden, calling him “Sleepy Joe” and labeling him worse than Obama.
Rage at the Supreme Court
The president also unleashed 545 words of fury at the Supreme Court for its February ruling that struck down his tariff program by a 6-3 vote — a decision requiring roughly $160 billion collected from importers to be returned.
Trump proposed a fix only he could imagine: that the justices simply add a sentence to their ruling declaring that money paid to the U.S. government doesn’t have to be returned. He claimed the move would have saved America $159 billion. He singled out Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Amy Coney Barrett for particular scorn, lamenting that justices he appointed had “hurt our Country so badly.”
From Rose Garden to Truth Social
The May 10 online meltdown capped a Mother’s Day weekend that began with Trump hosting Angel Moms and Gold Star Mothers at a Rose Garden luncheon on May 8. That event, too, veered sharply from celebration into campaign-style grievance, with Trump ranting about “25 million people” entering the country under Biden and reciting the figure of “11,888 murderers” — a number he first floated at his State of the Union address and for which no evidence has been produced.
Trump also used the luncheon to show off his renovations at the White House, including the patio that replaced the Rose Garden’s grass and the new black granite walkway he has dubbed the “Presidential Walk of Fame.”
By the afternoon of May 10, the president had circled back to economic boasting, claiming credit for the 115,000 Americans who found jobs in April and taking a shot at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom he nicknamed “Too Late and Won’t Leave.”
What he never quite managed, across more than a dozen posts and a holiday luncheon, was a simple, uncomplicated message wishing American mothers a happy Mother’s Day.
