Multiple Fox News anchors were quick to disparage President Trump during a meeting with advertisers.

Some of the network's news hosts including Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, and Chris Wallace addressed advertisers in Manhattan to assuage concerns that the president controls the network.

“Contrary to the opinion of some people, he’s not our boss,” MacCallum stated, according to the New York Times, while pointing out the president's attacks against the network for airing interviews with Democratic presidential candidates. “It is kind of shocking to hear that he really — that’s the way he thinks about how we should cover the election.”

During the meeting, Wallace brought up the president's frequent criticism of him: that he isn't his father, former 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace.

“He often likes to say about me, ‘You know, I was covered by Mike Wallace, I liked him much more,’” the Fox News anchor told the advertisers. “To which my reaction is always: One of us has a daddy problem, and it’s not me.”

Trump echoed that sentiment about Wallace in a Sunday evening tweet explaining that he "will never be his father."

[Related: Trump: 'Whoever' Fox News pollster is, 'they suck']

Somebody please explain to Chris Wallace of Fox, who will never be his father (and my friend), Mike Wallace, that the Phone Conversation I had with the President of Ukraine was a congenial & good one. It was only Schiff’s made up version of that conversation that was bad! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2019

The president has a rocky relationship with the conservative-leaning network. He often times praises the prime-time opinion hosts such as Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson. Occasionally, he praises the hosts of Fox & Friends but did hit Brian Kilmeade on Twitter Monday morning. He also frequently criticizes some of the news anchors and some of the more liberal commentators.