Veteran Fox News star Neil Cavuto is exiting after 28 years on the anchor’s desk, the community confirmed on Thursday.
His ultimate day shall be right this moment, signing off on the finish of “Your World,” the afternoon program he has hosted since Fox News launched in 1996.
“Neil Cavuto’s illustrious profession has been a grasp class in journalism and we’re extraordinarily happy with his unimaginable 28-year run with Fox News Media,” the community mentioned in an announcement. “His packages have outlined enterprise information and set the usual for the whole business. We want him a heartfelt farewell and all the perfect on his subsequent chapter.”
Cavuto was a mainstay on the community, internet hosting three exhibits throughout Fox News and sister channel Fox Business Network, totaling 12 hours of programming per week. Beyond anchoring every day packages “Your World” and “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” and weekend present “Cavuto Live,” the 66-year-old served as vp of Fox Business Network.
With Cavuto goes one of many community’s final remaining on-air stars to publicly conflict with Donald Trump — at a time when Fox has dominated the cable information panorama partly due to its enchantment to MAGA conservative viewers.
Cavuto was typically essential of Trump, fact-checking his claims on all the pieces from Covid-19 treatments to trade tariffs to hurricane-related misinformation.
In return, Trump has made Cavuto a frequent goal of his ire. In 2020, after the Fox host ridiculed Trump’s reported use of hydroxychloroquine as a Covid-19 prophylactic, Trump retweeted assaults on Cavuto calling him “stupid” and “foolish.”
During one marketing campaign rally that very same yr, Trump reportedly spent 20 minutes railing in opposition to a Cavuto phase wherein a visitor criticized his debate abilities. He immediately insulted Cavuto, claiming “no person likes him” and his “loser present.”
Earlier this yr, after Cavuto steered Trump misplaced his first and solely presidential debate in opposition to Kamala Harris, the president-elect posted to Truth Social that “Neil Cavuto, Fox’s Lowest Rated Anchor, is without doubt one of the WORST on Television. I truly desire the losers at CNN and MSDNC!”
A month later, Trump doubled down, writing again that “Neil Cavuto has one of many worst exhibits on Television—and the worst rated on FoxNews. The individuals on Fake News CNN are higher!”
“I don’t give you the results you want,” Cavuto once responded to a Trump tirade about his protection. “My job is to cowl you, not fawn over you or rip you, simply cowl you.”
