Megyn Kelly Unloads on Trump 🤯
Megyn Kelly expresses deep disappointment in Trump, criticizing his acceptance of $200 million from a donor and his reversal on key campaign promises. She challenges the justification for military strikes against Iran, citing intelligence assessments that Iran was not close to obtaining a nuclear weapon. She also pushes back against being labeled an antisemite for believing Trump's own claims about obliterating Iran's nuclear capabilities.
Summary
Megyn Kelly opens by expressing strong disappointment in Donald Trump, noting that she had initially believed he would be immune to special interest influence due to his independent wealth. However, she points out that his acceptance of $200 million from Marian Aden undermined that assumption and likely influenced his policy decisions.
She then addresses what she describes as a shocking reversal on one of Trump's core campaign promises, drawing a parallel between his actions and Joe Biden's open border policies to underscore just how dramatic the departure from his stated positions appeared to be. She frames this as something she considered virtually impossible given his campaign rhetoric.
Kelly also directly challenges the justification used for military strikes against Iran, stating that Iran was not close to obtaining a nuclear weapon and citing an intelligence assessment released prior to the strikes as evidence. She calls claims to the contrary outright lies.
Finally, she addresses a contradiction she finds deeply frustrating: Trump and Pete Hegseth publicly claimed that the June strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program, yet when she and others choose to believe those claims, they are accused of antisemitism. She forcefully pushes back against this framing, arguing that she is simply taking the administration at its own word.
Key Insights
- Kelly argues that Trump's acceptance of $200 million from Marian Aden directly undermined the core premise that his independent wealth would protect him from donor influence.
- Kelly claims that Trump reversing course on one of his top campaign promises felt as impossible to her as continuing Biden's open border policies — framing the betrayal as extreme.
- Kelly asserts that Iran was not close to obtaining a nuclear weapon and points to an intelligence assessment released before the strikes as direct evidence, calling contrary claims lies.
- Kelly notes that Trump himself, along with Pete Hegseth, publicly declared that the June strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons — making it contradictory to penalize people for believing that claim.
- Kelly pushes back forcefully against being labeled an antisemite for accepting the administration's own stated narrative about the outcome of the Iran strikes.
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Transcript
[0:00] The Trump thing is so disappointing because he did seem like he was going to be different. He was independently wealthy, so there was some reason to believe he wasn't going to need their money or be swayed by it. He took $200 million from Marian Aden. How did we think that was going to end? How I saw it, like there's no way he's going to be pressured by a lobby into reversing himself on one of his top and principal campaign promises. It would be the same as continuing Joe Biden's open border policies. That's how impossible it [0:30] seemed that Trump would start a war. Iran was not close to getting a nuclear weapon. Those are…
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