President Donald Trump has hit out at Fox News hosts who were analyzing his first 100 days in office. The president lashed out at both Howard Kurtz and commentator Karl Rove in separate Truth Social posts Sunday night, after they discussed some of his recent actions.

He argued that Kurtz, 71, has to ‘retire’ after the Fox News host tried to defend him on his show. Kurtz was joined by contributor and Trump supporter Ben Domenech and liberal Democrat strategist Leslie Marshall on his show, Media Buzz, for a discussion on the president’s decision to fire national security advisor Mike Waltz.

They also discussed Trump’s falling approval ratings. Throughout the segment, Kurtz defended the president – but because he featured clippings from other outlets, Trump claimed Sunday night that the Fox News host did a poor job speaking up for him.

After Rove offered his suggestions for Trump to improve his poll ratings, the president called the former deputy White House chief of staff a ‘total loser.’ In his post hitting out at Kurtz, the president suggested, ‘It is time for Howie Kurtz to retire.

‘Every Woke Anchor in the Business, people that no one watched from CNN, MSDNC and others are plastered all over his show with all really negative and fake statements and then I am weakly “defended” by Howie and his group (although Ben Domenech has been strong!’ he wrote on his Truth Social page.

Trump then claimed that Kurtz’s ‘case’ for him was not good enough. ‘The case Howie makes for me is so pathetic that it would be a lot better if he didn’t say anything,’ the president concluded. Kurtz has since responded that he isn’t worried about the president’s criticism as he lamented on X that there were ‘lotta trolls out today.

‘I’ve known President Trump for 35 years and if I hated him, he wouldn’t keep giving me interviews,’ he wrote. ‘Some people [are] not interested in fairness.’ Trump was again left offended several hours later, after apparently watching Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy.

The host had invited Rove to discuss the lessons of Trump’s first 100 days in office, and what the former White House deputy chief of staff thinks he should learn as he loses favorability. ‘He’s got to be focused on those two things, I think, that people wanted, which was a strong and prosperous economy and inflation being wiped up,’ Rove said, noting the high cost of gasoline and consumers’ concerns about his upcoming tariffs.

But Trump did not take the criticism likely, writing on Truth Social: ‘I don’t need Karl Rove of Fox News to tell me what to do. ‘The guy’s a total Loser who’s been wrong about almost everything,’ he claimed.

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