Maggie Haberman Says Trump’s Missive at Fox’s Kayleigh McEnany Was ‘A Warning Shot’

CNN contributor and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said when Donald Trump referred to his former press secretary as a Republican In Name Only, he was sending a message.

Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary on Tuesday night and gave an angry victory speech in which he lashed out at opponent Nikki Haley and made a weird comment about her dress. On Fox News, Kayleigh McEnany gave Trump some unsolicited advice.

“When you look under the hood of our Fox News voter analysis data, you find that 32% of Republicans say, ‘We won’t vote for Trump,'” McEnany said. “Nikki Haley won independents – according to Fox News voter analysis – 59 to 33.”

She added, “I would suggest that adopting a general election tone is what you do at this point.”

Trump did not appreciate the counsel.

“I don’t need any advice from RINO Kayleigh McEnany on Fox,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Just had a GIANT VICTORY over a badly failing candidate, ‘Birdbrain,’ and she’s telling me what I can do better. Save your advice for Nikki!”

On Wednesday’s edition of The Source on CNN, host Kaitlan Collins aired McEnany’s remarks.

“He called her a RINO for that – Republican In Name Only – and told her to save her advice for someone else,” Collins observed.

“Because it’s a warning shot to anybody else who might be around him or who was once around him and is seen as having cred with the right and with the MAGA movement for saying anything that’s based in fact that he doesn’t like,” Haberman replied. “That’s all that is.”

Watch above via CNN.