MAGA Turns on Fox Over Trumpy Host’s Replacement

Paul Morigi / Getty Images President Donald Trump’s base is revolting against Fox News after the network handed MAGA darling Maria Bartiromo’s old Sunday show to a new host.

Fox abruptly ousted Bartiromo, 58, on Thursday after more than 12 years.

Status reported that the MAGA host’s firing followed her tipping off the White House about Fox’s secret instructions not to promote Trump’s election conspiracies on the air, though her lawyer has disputed that she was fired.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned network has wasted no time repopulating Bartiromo’s old anchor chairs, including tapping Fox contributor Jason Chaffetz to temporarily take the reins of Sunday Morning Futures , a show Bartiromo debuted in 2014.

But while Fox has moved on from Bartiromo, its MAGA audience apparently has not, unleashing on the network and Chaffetz as he stepped into her old chair for the first time Sunday.

“Wrong.

That chair belongs to Maria Bartiromo,” MAGA influencer Gunther Eagleman , whose real name is David Freeman, wrote on X alongside a clip of Chaffetz announcing, “Welcome to Sunday Morning Futures, I’m Jason Chaffetz.” “America still knows who built that show and who owned Sunday mornings.

Bring Maria back,” Eagleman demanded.

Many vowed to ditch Fox News altogether, with one viewer declaring , “I used to watch every Sunday morning.

Not today, I went to Newsmax.

No more FOX for me.” Others bristled at Chaffetz’s past as a Republican congressman from Utah under the then-House Speaker Paul Ryan, who sits on Fox’s board of directors and is despised by the MAGA faithful for his criticism of Trump.

“And they selected that swamp rat.

Probably Paul Ryan’s selection,” one X user wrote.

Another wrote , “Sunday mornings just aren’t the same without her.