On Saturday night, former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro began her Fox News show Justice with Judge Jeanine with what could only be described as a verbal evisceration: the first words she spoke were “Paul Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House.” She blasted Ryan for failing to get the votes needed to pass the Republican health care reform bill while the party holds the House, the White House, and the Senate, and said that his best course of action was for him to resign.

“He failed to deliver the votes on his health care bill,“ she said. “The one that he had seven years to work on ... The one that had to be pulled to prevent the embarrassment of not having enough votes to pass.”

That a fiery Fox News host would take an establishment Republican to task over a very visible legislative failure is not breaking news, per se. But Pirro had perhaps more eyes on her than normal on Saturday evening thanks to an endorsement from Ryan’s political bedfellow in the health care debacle, President Donald Trump. On Saturday morning, Trump tweeted, with no further explanation, “Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight at 9:00 P.M.”

On Friday, Trump had addressed the failure of the bill, putting the blame on the Democrats and praising Ryan for working “very, very hard.” But his tweet promoting a show that started off with calling for Ryan’s resignation would seemed to belie his public support. Pirro raised further questions when her rant made clear that she didn’t want to shift any blame to President Trump: “No one expected a business man to completely understand the nuances, the complicated ins and outs of Washington and its legislative process.” Was Trump aware that he was bumping a TV commentator who was about to eviscerate a political ally he’ll need down the line? Was it coincidence?

During previously scheduled Sunday morning interview with Fox New host Chris Wallace, White House Chief of Staff (and Ryan pal) Reince Priebus tried to save the situation by saying that Trump’s tweet was “more coincidental.” Wallace pushed back with an: “Oh, come on.” But Priebus insisted that “there was no pre-planning here” and that Trump was doing Pirro “a favor” by promoting her show. Trump’s tweet, however, seems to correspond with what many already suspect: there’s a growing rift between Trump and Ryan compounded by Friday’s loss.

Update (2:45 P.M.): The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman reported Sunday afternoon that a spokesperson for Ryan said that Trump assured the speaker that his tweet was unrelated to Pirro’s commentary.