NEW: Trump Scorches Top Fox News Reporter: ‘Should Be Working For CNN’

President Donald Trump expressed his deep dissatisfaction with a longtime Fox News anchor after she went out of her way to critique a recent White House event featuring Tesla vehicles.

The Republican delivered the worst insult imaginable, saying Jacqui Heinrich “should be working for CNN” after she lambasted his South Lawn appearance with Elon Musk touting the reliability of his company’s electric vehicles and encouraging Americans to purchase them. Their appearance came in response to a rash of violent vandalisms at Tesla dealerships across the country.

“Was that an appropriate thing for the president to do there?” Heinrich asked a colleague on-air during Sunday’s broadcast.

In a separate instance, she wondered aloud whether Trump was being “played” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend and I thought she was absolutely terrible,” Trump wrote on Truth Social late Wednesday evening.

“She should be working for CNN, not Fox,” he quipped. “Not surprisingly, I later found out that she’s a fan of the White House Correspondents Association!”

Heinrich is a board member of the WHCA, which has sparred with the Trump administration over its decision to revoke credentials for the Associated Press.

Longtime Fox News anchor Brit Hume raced to his colleague’s defense just hours later.

“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 wrote.

During the same episode, Heinrich asked White House national security advisor Mike Waltz if the president was being “played” by Putin, much to his chagrin. She noted a European intelligence agency’s discovery of a document allegedly from the Kremlin outlining how to stall for time at the negotiating table.

She then quoted a Washington Post story about discussions to boost Russia’s bargaining position by offering the U.S. access to Russian minerals while stiff-arming peacekeepers and demilitarized zones.

“How do you know President Trump isn’t being played right now by Putin?” Heinrich asked Waltz.

“Well look, that’s almost laughable,” the Trump advisor shot back.

“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.”

During the legal discovery process as part of Fox’s Dominion lawsuit, emails and text messages from Tucker Carlson showed how the former network star attempted to use his influence to get Heinrich fired for fact-checking Trump and pushing back against allegations by Carlson and others that the company’s voting machines were to blame for the results of the 2020 election.

“There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” Heinrich wrote on social media at the time, the Daily Mail reports.

Carlson later texted fellow hosts Sean Hannity and Laura 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.”

Heinrich is the second Fox star to draw the ire of conservatives in less than a week. Trump supporters singled out Ingraham for her “combative” interview with Trump on Tuesday night, in which she raised doubts about his aggressive posture toward Canada.