Given Neil Cavuto’s longstanding beef with Donald Trump, it actually can be juicy if it turned out that his exit from Fox Information had one thing to do with the latter’s re-election. Nevertheless, it seems that the true cause he left was monetary. 

Some will keep in mind that Cavuto introduced his exit from Fox Information simply earlier than Christmas 2024. In his ultimate broadcast, he made certain to notice that he wasn’t retiring however simply strolling away from the community, and that would have been simply misconstrued as a shady dig. In spite of everything, Trump was set to return to workplace not lengthy after, and with Fox Information recognized for usually praising the president, he won’t have needed to stay round. Nevertheless, nearly as if to make clear that that wasn’t the case, Cavuto gushed over how a lot he’d beloved his time on the community. “I am ceaselessly grateful to my bosses right here. They have been excellent to me these a few years, and supplied a really beneficiant alternative for me to remain years extra,” he mentioned. Cavuto additionally added that their generosity was much more appreciated when considering simply how a lot time he’d taken off through the years (as many know, Cavuto has confronted a ton of tragedy in terms of his well being).

So, what prompted his exit, then? Although Cavuto did not say so himself, an insider who spoke with CNN claimed that although he’d been requested to stay on the community, that they had additionally requested him to take a pay reduce. We actually do not begrudge him for that. Whereas Cavuto is among the many richest Fox Information anchors, he additionally wasn’t within the high three, incomes only a fraction of what his colleagues Sean Hannity, Bret Baier, and Laura Ingraham have been getting. Even so, he is certain to be missed by many. 

Properly, Neil Cavuto will not be missed by everybody. For starters, Donald Trump did not even attempt to maintain again his glee on the information that Cavuto can be leaving the community. In a publish to Fact Social, which we would not be shocked to listen to he penned whereas listening to “No One Mourns the Depraved,” Trump gushed, “GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICA! Neil Cavuto, the bottom rated anchor on Fox, by far, is leaving — Ought to have occurred a very long time in the past!” 

It is a bit of poetic that simply hours earlier than he posted his ideas on Cavuto’s exit, Trump additionally shared one other caps-laden touch upon his social media platform. “EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!” he wrote. It isn’t clear if that sentiment was nonetheless high of thoughts when he realized that one of many solely Fox Information anchors who made it clear that he did not wish to be his good friend had tendered his resignation. Both manner, within the wake of the juvenile assault on him, Cavuto opted to not reply. That, in itself, was becoming, as a result of it stayed true to one thing Cavuto advised Trump on stay TV again in 2019. Responding to a publish that Trump had made on X, then often known as Twitter, about Fox Information now not working for his supporters, he’d identified, “I do not give you the results you want. My job is to cowl you, not fawn over you or rip you. Simply report on you.” Ouch. 

As Cavuto identified in his ultimate sign-off, he is not planning on quitting journalism altogether, so there is a good likelihood we’ll proceed to listen to him name Trump out sooner or later — when he sees match. Even so, we doubt we’ll ever hear him lash out in his personal capability as a result of, as he is confirmed previously, he is above that.