As we learned on Sunday night – and discussed yesterday – Billy Bush has been suspended indefinitely from the Today Show following the release of that disgusting Trump Tape. I don’t even remember him moving from Access Hollywood to Today, but it happened and now here we are. NBC never misses an opportunity to employ men who are vile to and about women. What was interesting about the suspension announcement was that everything seemed very, very vague. NBC didn’t even say that they were conducting some kind of in-house review or investigation, and it’s totally possible that Bush’s suspension will be over as soon as the election is over. But! It seems like Billy Bush wasn’t that popular anyway and now all of the women of NBC News are actively hoping he gets sh-tcanned.

The Today show has been rocked by the recent Billy Bush/Donald Trump controversy. A source tells PEOPLE the atmosphere around set Monday morning feels “surreal” after Bush’s suspension following the leak of a tape in which the star made lewd comments about women while filming a segment with Trump for Access Hollywood in 2005.

The source says there are lots of “gossipy conversations” about Bush flying around set of the NBC talk show, and that the prevailing attitude is that they don’t want him to come back, especially the women. According to the insider, Bush, 44, “hasn’t really endeared himself to the rest of the cast and crew anyway, so they’re fine with him leaving, if that’s what the decision is.”

“Ever since [Ryan] Lochte, a lot of people have thought that he was a liability anyway,” says the insider. “Tamron [Hall] doesn’t like him and they have always been uncomfortable around each other. Al [Roker] doesn’t speak to him, like at all. There is no love lost there. Matt [Lauer] is okay with him, not friends, but okay. He doesn’t have much of a relationship with Savannah [Guthrie]. So it won’t be a loss to any of them personally if he doesn’t come back.”

“The network and producers are going to have to decide if he’s such a liability that they have to take stronger action,” adds the source. “Does anyone tune in to Today to watch Billy? Probably not really. So if he leaves, it’s not a big deal.”

And while the source says they would hate to see Bush fired for something he said 11 years ago, this is “more than that.”

“The feeling is, ‘Is he so compromised that he can’t be a neutral journalist? Can people see him as being a professional?’ ” says the source. “It really seems like it’s time for him to go. We’re all waiting to see what happens.”

[From People]

“Is he so compromised that he can’t be a neutral journalist?” Um, did anyone think of him as a journalist anyway? I realize Today falls under the NBC News division, but let’s not mistake Billy Bush for a real journalist. As for Tamron Hall, Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie not really liking him… do they want a cookie? I don’t get it. Why the bitchy Mean Girl act? Why does every story about Today’s journalists sound like the mutterings of a middle school cafeteria? As for the corporate whatever of NBC… yeah, just fire him, for the love of God. If you can sh-tcan Ann Curry over next to nothing, you can surely fire Billy Bush FOR CAUSE. And make no mistake, Billy Bush will “fall up.” If and when he’s fired from NBC, he’ll get tons of job offers and he’ll probably find a home at Fox News. Oh, and Us Weekly has a source claiming that “Tamron Hall, Matt Lauer and Al Roker strongly dislike Bush.” Whatever.

People Mag has another story about how Bush is devastated and he feels like someone at NBC has it out for him. Bush also hoped that the tape would be released with his voice edited out, which might be an explanation for why NBC was sitting on the video for four days before someone leaked it to the Washington Post. That’s the part that interests me way more than the “woe is Billy Bush” aspect of this story – who leaked the tape to WaPo and why? Why did NBC sit on the tape?

Here’s Billy with two of his daughters:

Photos courtesy of WENN.