Fox Cannon Fires Money Honey!

The news hits harder when you're a part of it.

On Thursday, some big big junk food media news.

Fox Business and Fox News, two far right platforms involved in the Dominion Systems settlement. It cost them $787 million for promoting the notion that they were involved in shady practices which denied President Donald J. Trump a second term.

Several prominent agitators were involved in spinning this. 

Lou Dobbs, who was ousted and later passed away.

Tucker Carlson, who was ousted and later became a podcaster who is feuding with Trump.

Now Maria Bartiromo.

The "Money Honey" was fired out the cannon. 

Yearly wrap up.

Fox has parted ways with the controversial politically influential financial agitator Bartiromo after more than a decade, the company announced Thursday hours after Fox Business Network aired the final episode of the show that bears her name. The company did not specify the reasons for her separation.

“We thank Maria for her work over the last 12½ years,” a Fox statement read, “and wish her all the best on her next chapter.”

There was no immediate reaction from Bartiromo. Her X account still showed a banner photo Thursday afternoon encouraging people to “grab yourself a cup of coffee, and join us every morning for Mornings With Maria.”

On his Truth Social platform late Thursday, President Donald Trump wrote: “I can’t believe Maria Bartiromo is no longer going to have her great show(s) on FoxNews/Business. Three different shows, always number one. Maria is a total professional, and a true warrior. Her fans, of which there are many, will not be happy. God bless you, Maria!”

Other high-profile, on-air personalities that have left Fox News Media in recent years include Tucker Carlson and Bill O’Reilly. Former Fox personality Pete Hegseth left the network in 2024 after being nominated as Trump’s secretary of defense.

Bartiromo hosted “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business Network, the last episode of which aired Thursday morning, as well as “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street.”

The first show will be renamed “Mornings with Fox Business” and will feature rotating anchors, the company said in its statement. The second will be renamed “FBN’s Wall Street” and will also use rotating anchors. Additionally, Bartiromo’s weekly Fox News show “Sunday Morning Futures” will be hosted by Jason Chaffetz for the time being.

Bartiromo has frequently earned praise from Trump, who has granted her multiple interviews over the years. He has called her a “great reporter.” Vice President JD Vance, talking with reporters Thursday afternoon, was asked about her departure but said he had not talked to her and didn’t know the back story.

“I love Maria. I think she’s an amazing person, an amazing talent,” Vance said. “Whatever she does, she’s gonna do great, and I wish her all the best. She’s a very, very dear friend.”

In 2025, a lawsuit against Fox News by voting technology company Smartmatic alleged that Bartiromo spread false rumors about claims of election fraud on the air — a notion she had vehemently rejected.

Softball Bartiromo strikes out. 

Bartiromo had said before an earlier lawsuit involving Fox and Dominion Voting Systems that it’s “absurd” to think that she personally lobbied former Attorney General William Barr to aggressively investigate Trump’s charges of voter fraud during the 2020 election. Instead, she said she was doing a journalist’s job in asking follow-up questions. That case was settled in 2023.

Before Fox, Bartiromo worked for CNBC for 20 years as a financial journalist. Previously to that, she worked for CNN. At CNBC, she pioneered daily live reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and won an Emmy Award for a documentary about Google.

Bartiromo’s executive producer Patrick Ignozzi was also sent through the exit doors, Mediaite previously confirmed earlier Thursday after it was first reported by Puck’s Dylan Byers. Earlier, a bombshell report from Oliver Darcy at Status revealed that Bartiromo had shared a confidential internal communication giving directives about the network’s coverage of President Donald Trump with the White House.

Her staff were barred from talking about her potential cannon firing. They had enough time to gather up all the work and when the cameras went off and she took off her microphone, her bosses came to her talked to her and sent her out the door.

She became a victim of the very thing she called for. 

I assume she will become a prominent podcaster. Perhaps she will join NewsNation which is becoming the Fox-lite cable network. 

Fox corporate management gave secret directives instructing hosts not to promote Trump's election interference conspiracy theories on air. Bartiromo, an ardent supporter and ally of Trump, went behind management's back and tipped off the White House about Fox's internal restrictions.