Megyn Kelly tore into President Trump on Tuesday after he warned on Truth Social that Iran had until 8 p.m. ET to strike a deal or “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Kelly called the post “completely irresponsible and disgusting” and said Trump should not be speaking that way about war.
“I don’t know about you, but I am sick of this s--t! I’m sick of it. Can’t he just behave like a normal human?” Kelly said on her show, adding, “You don’t threaten to wipe out an entire civilization.” She said she was “the first to try to understand Trump and his strategy and not freak out over his weird social media posts and language that is loose and incendiary,” but said this time was different. “This is completely irresponsible and disgusting. This is wrong. It’s wrong. He should not be doing it,” she said, describing the message as a threat to “kill an entire country full of civilians—men, women, and children.”
The clash landed on Tuesday as Trump’s war in Iran widened a rift with some of his loudest backers, a split that has been building even as he campaigned on a “no new wars” platform. Kelly said she had lived with Trump’s social media style for “ten-plus years” and had spent nine months on the receiving end of it, a reminder that her criticism was not coming from outside the president’s orbit.
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She was not alone. Candace Owens said “The 25th Amendment needs to be invoked” and called Trump “a genocidal lunatic.” Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote, “25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.” Alex Jones warned, “The definition of genocide is destroying an entire civilization/people!” Tucker Carlson said, “On every level, it is vile… to commit a war crime, a moral crime against the people of the country.”
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The reaction marks a sharper break than the usual social-media grumbling from Trump allies because it turned on the president’s core pitch: that he would avoid the kind of foreign conflict he is now defending. For now, the immediate answer to the question raised by Kelly and her fellow rebels is that the backlash is real, public and coming from inside his own movement.
