NEW YORK — During a live segment on a cable news network, from a sports bar in France where patrons were celebrating the United States women’s World Cup Championship, a profane chant about President Donald Trump broke out. Trump was not pleased, and the object of his ire was his favorite outlet, Fox News Channel, and the president issued a not-so-veiled threat about the network’s programming.

While it was not the first time the president has singled out Fox, it was the most pointed, raising the question of how the network, and the president’s supporters, would respond.

Trump wrote Sunday that watching Fox on the weekend was worse than watching CNN and MSNBC, outlets he frequently attacks. He said Fox is “loading up with Democrats” and criticized the network for using The New York Times as a source for a story. He also attacked Fox for hiring former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile. “Fox News is changing fast, but they forgot the people who got them there,” Trump wrote.

“I suspect Fox executives don’t get too worked up over the president’s tweets and offhanded comments,” said Ken LaCorte, a longtime Fox News executive who now operates his own website. News reporters and anchors at Fox don’t necessarily mind when a presidential tweet illustrates that not everyone at Fox is in the president’s pocket.