U.S. President Donald Trump, wearing band-aids on his hand, attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

President Donald Trump reportedly erupted at a Fox News reporter on Tuesday after a lengthy Cabinet meeting, in response to a somewhat tough question.

That's according to The Independent's Andrew Feinberg, who tweeted Tuesday that Trump had confrontation with reporter reporter Ed Lawrence at the White House. Feinberg noted that Lawrence asked the president if he thought Americans were "getting impatient with the reforms you're making."

"I think they're getting fake news from guys like you," Trump responded.

The network's on-air host at the time, John Roberts, apparently took umbrage to how Trump addressed Lawrence. According to Vanity Fair Washington correspondent Aidan McLaughlin, Roberts commented: "Ed is such a nice guy. I don't know why the president would do that."

"Not sure how you can possibly be surprised by Trump attacking the press in 2025," McLaughlin quipped in a subsequent post.

Trump's attitude toward the press has become increasingly confrontational despite his frequent press gaggles in the Oval Office and on Air Force One. In one interaction on Air Force One, Trump snapped at a female reporter by saying "quiet, piggy" in response to a question about the Jeffrey Epstein files. And during a Mar-a-Lago press conference over the Thanksgiving holiday, the president called CBS reporter Nancy Cordes "a stupid person" after she asked about the vetting process for the suspect in last week's shooting in downtown Washington D.C.

However, Trump's comment toward Lawrence marks the first notable occasion of the president having a tense exchange with a reporter from his favorite network. Trump has appointed nearly two dozen employees of the conservative network to positions within his administration, including former part-time Fox & Friends weekend host Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense, and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (which is typically considered to be the Department of Justice's top prosecutor).