Brit Hume, a senior political analyst at Fox News, defended his colleague Chris Wallace on social media Monday after President Donald Trump attacked the "Fox News Sunday" host in a scathing tweet.

"Just watched Mike Wallace wannabe, Chris Wallace, on @FoxNews," Trump said Sunday, referring to Wallace's late father, the former "60 Minutes" correspondent for CBS News and journalistic icon who died in 2012.

"I am now convinced that he is even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Meet the Press(please!), or the people over at Deface the Nation," Trump tweeted as he compared Wallace to the other Sunday morning hosts he frequently derides. "What the hell is happening to @FoxNews. It’s a whole new ballgame over there!"

In response to Trump's tweet, ProPublica reporter Jessica Huseman predicted that "not a single soul at Fox News will defend Chris Wallace, which says a lot."

"I will," Hume fired back. "He’s the best Sunday show host of his time, and perhaps of all time."

Huseman said Hume's defense would have been "more convincing if it were a condemnation of what Trump said rather than a compliment" to Wallace.

"Excuse me, but this was in response to your claim that no one at Fox would defend Chris Wallace. So I did, to which you replied that I should have condemned Trump. Please," Hume replied.

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Hume was not the only Fox News personality to defend Wallace after Trump's attack.

"Chris is the best Sunday show interviewer hands down – he’s equally tough on left and right- and he’s a great talent to have on your team for election coverage or any debate – a true pro," Fox News Chief Political Anchor Bret Baier wrote in response to Huseman's tweet.

"Chris Wallace is tough and fair. He’s a very skilled, informed, determined questioner," tweeted contributor Guy Benson.

"Enough with the 3rd grade name-calling. Chris is doing his job," tweeted Jedediah Bila, who co-hosts "Fox & Friends" on the weekends. "The news should not be any president’s friend, ally, or buddy. If it bothered you when Obama complained about Fox News, but you’re silent on this complete nonsense, then just stop. Seriously. Enough."

It was not clear what portion of "Fox News Sunday" this week caused the president to become unhappy with Wallace. His guests included Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, Dr. Tom Inglesby, the director of Johns Hopkins University's Center for Health Security and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

Cuban expressed doubts about Trump's certainty that the economy would recover quickly from the shutdown caused by the virus. And Wallace asked Inglesby about a New York Times report that said Trump waited more than a month to act after being warned about the potential pandemic by health officials.

"If we had imposed social distancing, stay-at-home, at the end of January, and early February, would there be a dramatically ... smaller number of cases and deaths?" Wallace asked.

It is also possible Trump was reacting to Wallace's comment during a Friday podcast that the president doesn't have "any chance to win" reelection if voters think he bungled the coronavirus outbreak response.

Trump has attacked Wallace on several other occasions on social media, calling the veteran journalist "nasty & obnoxious" in November, and he has negatively compared him to his deceased father as far back as 2015.

In October, Trump said Wallace "will never be his father."

"He often likes to say about me, 'You know, I was covered by Mike Wallace, I liked him much more,'" Wallace said at a panel discussion in September, according to The New York Times. "To which my reaction is always: One of us has a daddy problem, and it’s not me."

Hume has sometimes defended Trump since he took office and was a vocal critic of the news media's coverage of the allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian election interference. But he has also been critical of the president on several occasions.

Recently, he slammed Trump for posting "a ridiculous tweet" that boasted about the TV ratings for his White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings in response to a Wall Street Journal editorial that suggested he should take a less prominent role at the daily updates.

"He could get his views across without bragging, endlessly repeating himself, and getting into petty squabbles with the junior varsity players in the WH press corps," Hume tweeted. "And he could stop talking much sooner to give Pence, Fauci, Birx and Giroir more time."

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Though the president often praises Fox News – which features fiercely pro-Trump voices such as Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo and the hosts of "Fox & Friends" – he has frequently lashed out the network when it has aired anything critical of him or even just for granting his Democratic opponents airtime.

Dating back to the 2016 election, Trump has reacted to negative coverage of him on Fox News as a sort of betrayal by a network he assumed had his back.

Following an August interview with Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa on Fox News, Trump railed against anchor Sandra Smith for offering "zero pushback" and said the cable news network was "HOPELESS & CLUELESS!"

"The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!" Trump tweeted.

"Fox News isn't supposed to work for you," Hume shot back.

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