In a blistering segment on The Megyn Kelly Show on Tuesday, the former Fox News anchor unloaded on the president she has spent a decade defending.
“I am sick of this shit,” she said, her voice rising. “Can’t he just behave like a normal human?”
She was responding to Donald Trump‘s Truth Social post threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. By the end of the segment, Kelly was comparing him to Genghis Khan and asking why an American president couldn’t project strength “without threatening a bunch of war crimes.”
“I am sick of this sh*t. Can’t he just behave like a normal human?” Megyn Kelly completely unleashes on Trump, and it’s brutal. pic.twitter.com/i9BkvoVHIn
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) April 8, 2026
For anyone who has followed the decade-long relationship between Kelly and Trump, the explosion was striking. It was also familiar.
‘You’ve Called Women Fat Pigs’
The first time most Americans saw Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump in the same frame was August 6, 2015. Kelly, then a Fox News anchor, opened the first Republican primary debate with a question aimed directly at the future president: “You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.”
Trump responded with “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” The audience laughed. Then he spent the next nine months making Kelly’s life difficult. He told CNN there was “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.” He boycotted a Fox debate because she was moderating. She spent months with armed security.
They eventually reconciled on camera at Trump Tower in 2016. Kelly left Fox, went to NBC, and later launched her own podcast. By 2023, she was interviewing Trump on SiriusXM in what Deadline described as largely friendly territory. Trump still called her “nasty” at a campaign stop days later.
At a 2024 rally, Trump told the crowd: “Megyn Kelly, may she rest in peace. She’s sort of making a career by pretending she likes me.”
Kelly endorsed him anyway. On November 4, 2024, the night before the election, she stood on stage at his Pittsburgh rally and called him “a protector of women.” She attended his inauguration in January 2025.
‘He Had the Balls’
Megyn Kelly speaks out of both sides of her mouth about President Trump and Iran, yet again- with Glenn Greenwald of all people. 🙄
Megyn Kelly 2025: President Trump had actually had the balls to do what other presidents wouldn’t do.
Megyn Kelly 2026: Netanyahu and President… pic.twitter.com/d70kCgBVex
— Ally (@AllyJKiss) April 8, 2026
On June 22, 2025, the United States struck three Iranian nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer. The next day, Kelly opened Episode 1,093 of her show with a full-throated defense.
“Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush have all said that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon,” she said. “It’s just this president — forgive me — but he had the balls to actually do something about it.”
That strike was part of the Twelve-Day War, which ended with a ceasefire on June 24. Eight months later, on February 28, 2026, the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury — a far larger campaign that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, triggered a region-wide conflict, and has cost at least 13 American service members their lives.
Kelly’s position shifted with each escalation.
‘Israel’s War’
She called the conflict “Israel’s war.” She named Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Shapiro, and Mark Levin as the people who pushed Trump into it. She accused the administration of concealing American casualties, saying the public wasn’t getting “the full extent of the deaths.”
On April 6, she told her audience she’d still vote Republican even if Trump “dropped a nuke.” The next day, sitting across from Glenn Greenwald, she blamed the war on “Benjamin Netanyahu and the man in the mirror — his own hubris that led him to believe he’d get a different result than all those other presidents.”
.@megynkelly: “Trump could drop a nuke and I’d still vote Republican over Democrat. What [Democrats] want to do is nuke our own country.” pic.twitter.com/Q5qAKXZvEr
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) April 7, 2026
On April 8, she called his rhetoric “completely irresponsible and disgusting” and compared him to Genghis Khan.
Three statements. Three days. The same woman.
‘I’ve Lived With It for Ten-Plus Years’
In the same segment where she called Trump’s rhetoric disgusting, Kelly paused.
“I am the first to try to understand Trump and his strategy and to not freak out over his weird social media posts and language that is loose and incendiary,” she said. “Truly, I’ve lived with it for ten-plus years. I learned it the hard way when I was on the receiving end of it for nine months.”
A decade spent trying to find stable ground with a man who has never offered any. She challenged him in 2015 and paid for it with armed guards. She reconciled, endorsed him from his own stage, and he told a rally crowd she was “pretending she likes me.” She praised his boldness on Iran, and the war that followed broke the alliance for good.
Or maybe not for good. Trump has already said Kelly “isn’t MAGA.” On Tuesday evening, he announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Kelly hasn’t responded yet.
If the pattern holds, she will.