Fox News co-anchor Jacqui Heinrich found herself in the crosshairs of a Mother’s Day barrage from President Donald Trump, who blasted the network and its host by name in a series of Truth Social posts on May 10, 2026, that also targeted a California congressman, the Supreme Court, former President Barack Obama, and Iran.
The 79-year-old president fired off more than a dozen posts attacking Fox News, but Heinrich became one of the most shocking targets when Trump called her out directly for what he viewed as an insufficient grilling of Rep. Ro Khanna during “The Sunday Briefing” that morning. The tirade highlighted just how far the once-cozy relationship between the president and his former media stronghold has deteriorated.
Trump’s rage began when he called Khanna a “sleazebag” and criticized Heinrich for not challenging the Democrat’s statements about American manufacturing. Apparently glued to his television on the holiday morning, the president returned two hours later with an even more blistering attack.
“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.
The president went on to argue that Fox News should refuse to book Democrats unless its anchors are prepared to dismantle their arguments on air. He threw Bill Maher and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries into the mix as examples of guests the network should never invite, then made a remarkable assertion: “MAGA Republicans, who are actually close to 100% of the Party, hate Fox.” The claim was particularly striking given that Trump’s political ascent was closely tied to his relationship with the network.
Khanna responded to Trump’s attacks with evident satisfaction. In a statement, the congressman said he had spent the previous week leading a Heartland Tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, and urged Trump to concentrate on an upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping instead of fighting with cable news. He also went after Trump’s much-publicized White House construction project, posting, “The man building a ballroom with foreign steel probably shouldn’t call himself the champion of American steel.”
The criticism hit a sore spot. 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’s social media frenzy actually started with Iran. The president’s first post of the day was a 232-word eruption 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 outburst came as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian posted on social media that “we will never bow our heads before the enemy” while Iran submitted its response to a U.S. peace proposal. The Strait of Hormuz remains shuttered under a U.S. blockade, which has thrown global oil markets into turmoil. Trump rejected Iran’s proposal the next day, dismissing it as “unacceptable” and “a piece of garbage” while declaring the ceasefire 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.”
Trump also targeted former President Joe Biden, whom he called “Sleepy Joe” and labeled worse than Obama.
Rage at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court also received a 545-word tirade from the president over its February ruling that struck down his sweeping tariff regime by a 6-3 vote. The decision requires approximately $160 billion collected from importers to be refunded.
Trump floated an extraordinary solution: that the justices simply tack on a sentence to their ruling stating that money paid to the U.S. government doesn’t need to be returned. According to the president, this would have saved America $159 billion. He reserved special criticism for Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, bemoaning that justices he appointed had “hurt our Country so badly.”
From Rose Garden to Truth Social
Trump had kicked off the Mother’s Day weekend on May 8 by hosting Angel Moms and Gold Star Mothers at a Rose Garden luncheon. But even that event devolved into campaign-style grievance, with the president railing about “25 million people” entering the country under Biden and citing a figure of “11,888 murderers” — a statistic he first mentioned at his State of the Union address and for which no evidence has been produced.
During the luncheon, Trump showed off his White House renovations, 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, Trump had pivoted to economic cheerleading, 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.