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Far-right activist Laura Loomer unloaded on Fox News on Thursday, branding the network "TV for stupid people" after management yanked her booking to discuss an exclusive Zelensky interview and then aired a segment days later on whether AI could fix women's boyfriends.

Loomer had spent late July in Ukraine, traveling to Kyiv and Kharkiv and reversing years of pro-Russia commentary. She landed a 45-minute sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that CNN described as an "exceedingly friendly" interview. Trump shared a clip on Truth Social and wrote, "Very good!!!"

Despite that presidential seal of approval, Loomer says Fox News wanted no part of her scoop. In a post published on X, she said host Howard Kurtz had booked her on his podcast to talk through the reporting before management intervened.

"Fox News management killed the spot off 20 minutes before the interview was supposed to take place," she wrote.

She was not subtle about what she saw as the network's real priorities.

"They had no time for the biggest interview of the week, but they had time for a segment 2 days later on whether AI can 'fix your boyfriend,'" she wrote, punctuating the complaint with a clown emoji.

Fox & Friends aired a segment earlier this week featuring contributor Brett Cooper analyzing the "stay-at-home boyfriend" trend and a new AI agent called Orchid pitched as a tool to help men manage relationship tasks.

"Fox News is truly TV for stupid people," Loomer wrote. "They won't talk about things that actually matter, but they always have time for bimbo guests and bimbo news stories that have no actual news value."

The blowup is the latest chapter in a slow-motion feud between the Trump ally and the network's leadership. Loomer erupted at Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott over the same canceled booking, alleging she has been on an internal blacklist since 2017.

Loomer also claimed her Ukraine reporting rattled Russian state television enough to prompt calls for her assassination. Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov devoted part of a recent broadcast to Loomer, branding her a "fool" and saying she should be "rolled into the asphalt."

President Donald Trump left his cabinet secretaries and top advisers on a plane threatened by Iran while he moved to safety, The New York Times reported.

Air Force One was targeted by Iran as he left a NATO summit in Turkey, but reports are surfacing that Trump switched planes by hiding in a catering cart. However, the latest reporting by The Times reveals Trump also ditched Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and traveling press, who were "kept in the dark."

Two anonymous officials told Times reporter Maggie Haberman that Stephen Miller, Trump's top domestic policy adviser, and Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, were also left on the threatened decoy plane. Trump meanwhile left Ankara, Turkey, aboard a C-32A military jet.

According to Haberman's reporting, Rubio knew about the threat from Iran and that he was traveling on a plane that had been targeted for an attack. However, it's unclear if other top White House officials knew about the threat too.

The anonymous officials who spoke with Haberman said that at least some of the White House staff who also left on the endangered plane were unaware of the threat.

A White House spokesman didn't respond to a request from The Times for comment about the discussion to decide who would be left on the threatened plane and who would be whisked to safety with Trump.

The New York Times's reporting did, however, include a comment from Andrew Marlowe, the Hollywood screenwriter of the 1997 Harrison Ford thriller "Air Force One."

Marlowe told The Times that even though the Secret Service was trying to keep Trump safe, the optics of the reporting that has been coming out don't make him look good.

"Now real life isn't a movie, but given the circumstances, I'm not sure I could ever script a moment like that for a heroic main character," Marlowe said. "If the threat were that great, it's hard to imagine the audience rooting for any character who would trade his own safety by treating the remaining civilians onboard as potential sacrificial lambs, especially without their informed consent."