The public agonizing of Gary Cohn is not playing well with Donald Trump’s base. For the last two weeks, details of the White House economic adviser’s discontent with the president’s comments on Charlottesville have leaked to the press. As my colleague William Cohan reported on Monday, Cohn had planned to resign last Friday but held off when Stephen Bannon beat him to the punch and returned to lead Breitbart. (As The New York Times later reported, Cohn had even drafted a letter of resignation.) On Thursday, Cohn made his first public comments about Trump’s equivocating response to a clash between white supremacists and counter-protesters, telling the Financial Times in an interview that while he feels a patriotic duty to remain in the administration, the White House “must do better in consistently and unequivocally condemning these groups and do everything we can to heal the deep divisions that exist in our communities. As a Jewish American, I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting ‘Jews will not replace us’ to cause this Jew to leave his job.”

Trump’s admirers on the far right, who were already deeply suspicious of Cohn, responded by deriding the former Goldman Sachs president as a member of a “globalist” cabal seeking to undermine Trump’s agenda, and calling on the president to fire him. The top headline on Breitbart, shortly after Cohn’s comments were published, read: “White House Shock: Gary Trashes Trump’s Response to Charlottesville—Almost 2 Weeks Later.” Globe emojis appeared on either side of his name, signaling his alleged membership in the alliance of more moderate New Yorkers (Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Dina Powell), generals (H.R. McMaster, John Kelly, Jim Mattis) and Republican congressional leaders who many nationalist-minded conservatives accuse of sabotaging the isolationist, anti-trade, anti-immigrant policy promoted by Bannon. (“I don’t think anyone was surprised by the comments,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a Friday afternoon press briefing. “The president, as I said, and Gary have spoken many times—Gary has not held back what his feelings are.”)

“Cohn aligned his views with the establishment media, asserting that the violent Antifa counter-protesters were ‘standing up for equality and freedom’ while the protesters defending Robert E. Lee’s statue were all white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the KKK,” wrote Breitbart’s Charlie Spiering, suggesting that Cohn had taken sides against the president by promoting the mainstream narrative that the anti-white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville were peaceful and nonviolent. “Memory Hole: No Antifa Violence, Just ‘Citizens Standing Up for Equality and Freedom,‘” read another headline mocking Cohn.

Breitbart’s social-media account put the accusation more succinctly:

Other prominent figures in far-right media universe—a constellation of independent writers, activists, conspiracy theorists, and Web sites outside of Breitbart—also took aim at Cohn and called for his ouster:

How Cohn’s public rebuke of his boss will play inside the West Wing remains to be seen. Everything about his comments to the Financial Times seems likely to infuriate Trump, who is not known for magnanimity in the face of perceived disloyalty. The response from conservative media is likely to further exacerbate the rift. Bannon, who had already sworn to take revenge on his former colleague, “especially dislikes Gary Cohn and Dina Powell,” one right-wing media source told me last week. “So you can look for a lot of interesting articles about the two of them.” Kelly, the White House chief of staff, is reportedly clamping down on the flow of information that crosses Trump’s desk, including news stories from outlets like Breitbart, without being vetted first. But the president still has his phone, and his Twitter feed, which are now filled with outraged MAGA devotees calling for Cohn’s head.