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On Tuesday, Megyn Kelly expressed her frustration with Donald Trump, specifically targeting his social media commentary on the Iran conflict. During her broadcast, she highlighted one of Trump’s posts that ominously suggested an entire civilization could face annihilation if Tehran failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. that evening. Her reaction was one of exasperation, punctuated by a deep sigh.
Kelly, 55, called the president’s comments in recent days ‘completely irresponsible and disgusting’.Â
“I don’t know about you, but I am sick of this nonsense!” Kelly exclaimed. “Can’t he just behave like a normal person? We’re talking about the President of the United States here, not some game of ‘3D chess.’ It’s appalling to see threats of wiping out an entire civilization casually tossed around on social media. This isn’t just about military targets; it’s about civilians.”
Kelly’s frustration is rooted in her own history with Trump’s social media behavior, recalling the nine-month period in 2015 and 2016 when she was frequently on the receiving end of his online attacks. She criticized the current tone of his rhetoric as alarmingly reckless and deeply offensive.
‘We’re talking about civilians, just casually, in a social media post.’
Kelly went on to recall ‘when [she] was on the receiving end of [Trump’s social media attacks] for nine months’ in 2015 and 2016. She flagged the president’s recent rhetoric as different, and ‘completely irresponsible and disgusting.’
‘I don’t care that it’s a negotiation tactic… to kill an entire country full of civilians – men, women, and children – an American president, so that the Strait of Hormuz will be opened? It’s just wrong,’ she continued. Â
‘Like what is he, Genghis Khan?’ she added, likening the president to the 13th-century Mongolian warrior-ruler whose army perpetrated some of the deadliest mass killings in human history.
Megyn Kelly, 55, called the conservative’s comments in recent days ‘completely irresponsible and disgusting’ to start her web show Tuesday night
Trump warned Tehran that ‘a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again’ if it did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz before 8pm Tuesday in a social media post
‘Like, what is he trying to do and why can’t he do it with strength – threats, sure, go for it – that don’t diminish and demean the United States of America in this way?’
‘What does that say about the position that our country is in right now in these negotiations? He’s got to say this? He can’t be a dignified, strong leader without threatening a bunch of war crimes?’ Kelly asked elsewhere.
Kelly’s comments were offered at the top of her web show.
Trump penned another Truth Social post about the conflict that night saying he was suspending his previously promised bombing campaign for two weeks as part of a tentative ceasefire.  Â
Trump credited Pakistan for mediating the settlement, which stipulated that strikes will resume if ships do not receive safe passage through the strait within that span.
‘This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military [sic] objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement [sic] concerning Longterm [sic] PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East,’ Trump wrote around 6:30pm ET.
Roughly 11 hours before, Trump wrote: ‘A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.’
He added ‘we will find out tonight,’ calling the standoff ‘one of the most important moments in the long complex history of the World [sic].’
Trump penned another Truth Social post that same night announcing a temporary ceasefire between the two countries, after his post in the morning received criticism from both Democrats and Republicans
The post promptly received criticism from both sides of the aisle.
A White House spokesperson defended the president’s rhetoric in a statement to the Daily Mail on Tuesday.
‘As President Trump said today, Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, and the Iranian people welcome the sound of bombs because it means their oppressors are losing,’ White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said.
‘The president will always stand with innocent civilians while annihilating the terrorists responsible for threatening our country and the entire world with a nuclear weapon.’