Megyn Kelly gave an explosive critique of President Donald Trump on the Friday episode of The Megyn Kelly Show. She accused him of selling “propaganda” to justify the Iran war while struggling Americans contend with gas prices that have surged past $4.39 per gallon.
Megyn Kelly slams Donald Trump and gas prices
On The Megyn Kelly Show, the host played the video of Donald Trump arguing that the war against Iran was necessary to stop the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear weapon. He reportedly claimed fuel costs will “drop like a rock” once it ends, adding, “I could have to pay a little bit more for gasoline. The gasoline, the oil, will go down rapidly as soon as the war is over.”
Kelly countered with updated figures showing a 10-cent increase at the pump and a 40-cent spike per barrel of oil. She then aired CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins’s interview with Sen. Rick Scott. The Florida Republican, pressed about the burden on working families, claimed Democrats “tried to cause” high gas prices to force electric vehicle adoption before defending the economic trade-off. “I don’t know what the price tag for that is, but it’s worth it to me,” Scott said, citing the threat of a nuclear attack.
Kelly went on to call out, “That’s f**king bulls**t.” She challenged the administration’s central premise, stating Trump’s own intelligence community had assessed “Iran was not anywhere near getting a nuclear bomb” before hostilities. Kelly further noted the president himself previously declared Iran’s nuclear facilities were “completely obliterated” during June’s coordinated strikes with Israel, a claim the media “believed and reported and congratulated him on.”
“You can say Iran’s a bad actor. Iran has proxies who are doing bad things in the region. Iran has designs on hurting America. That’s all true,” Kelly said. “But what he just said is a lie. It’s bulls**t. It’s f**king propaganda, and it’s not gonna sell. People don’t believe it.” The ex-Fox News host then tied the public discontent directly to Trump’s tanking approval ratings.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on Mandatory.
