Out White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Fox News’s Peter Doocy shared what initially seemed to be a conciliatory moment on Monday, January 13 — before Doocy Foxed it all up.

In what, according to Raw Story, is expected to be their final interaction in the White House press briefing room, Doocy, who has been one of the most antagonistic member of the White House press corps during the Biden administration, at first struck an uncharacteristically respectful note, thanking Jean-Pierre for putting up with him for over two years.

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“I don’t even understand,” Karine Jean-Pierre asked, exasperated.

“You could have stopped taking the hard questions years ago, and you didn’t, so we appreciate that,” he said.

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“This is, let’s say, one last dance, right?” Jean-Pierre quipped. “I don’t know how I’m gonna fill my dance card now. How will I fill that void without you?”

“You tell me,” Doocy replied, to which Jean-Pierre shot back, “Start some rumors in here, I guess.”

In video from the interaction, a nearby reporter can be heard commenting that Doocy was “getting red” as Jean-Pierre and others shared a friendly chuckle.

A smiling Doocy then addressed his final question to Jean-Pierre: “Who’s the leader of the Democratic Party” during Donald Trump’s second term in office.

Jean-Pierre demurred. “Honestly, that is for people much smarter than I to make that assessment, that decision,” she told Doocy. “Obviously, voters will decide. That is not something for me to decide.”

“I cannot predict the future, so that is not something that I’m going to do from here,” she added.

“So, no leader of the party,” Doocy responded.

“That’s not what I said,” an exasperated Jean-Pierre replied. “I’m regretting this right now — regretting all of this.”

“You asked me about what 2028’s gonna look like — between now and 2028,” she continued, explaining Doocy’s own question to him along with her answer. “That’s not for me to decide. That’s not for me to speak to.”

Doocy shared a similar moment with Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki, when she stepped down in May 2022, telling her that he was sorry to see her go.

“Are you?” Psaki asked, eliciting laughter from other reporters.

Doocy told Psaki that she had “always been a good sport,” and added that he couldn’t wait to see Jean-Pierre, the first LGBTQ+ person and the first Black woman to be named White House press secretary, in the role.

During an interview with the hosts of Pod Save America, Psaki had previously suggested that she didn’t hold Doocy’s muckraking against him. “He works for a network that provides people with questions that … might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a b***h,” she said.

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