Megyn Kelly was blunt when asked to weigh in on a joke Donald Trump made Wednesday in France, as criticism grew over his Iran deal during the G7 summit.
Speaking to a reporter, the President quipped that if the agreement “doesn’t work out, I’m blaming JD.”
Trump had signed the contentious memorandum moments earlier at the Palace of Versailles, where it was met with applause.
Emily Jashinsky, culture editor at The Federalist and host of the “After Party” podcast, asked Kelly whether she believed Trump meant the remark in any serious way — an idea Kelly swiftly brushed aside.
“Of course Trump is joking. Trump knows that the buck stops with him, and everybody on earth knows that the buck stops with him,” Kelly said, before sharpening her criticism.
“But it’s fine. To me, it’s actually been very amusing to watch the President’s critics try to lay this at the feet of JD Vance because, well, I’m just going to say it, I don’t normally use this word, but they’re p*ssies, sorry.”
The comment appeared to catch Jashinsky off guard, prompting her to suppress a laugh.
Kelly pressed on, pointing to months of backlash over the war: “That’s the problem here. If you have a problem with the deal, just say it outright.”
Megyn Kelly called those turning on JD Vance over Donald Trump’s Iran deal ‘p*ssies’ this week
Kelly was giving her read on a crack Trump made to a reporter during the G7 summit on Wednesday. He said if the Iran deal ‘doesn’t work out, I’m blaming JD’
Kelly went on to explain how Republicans, in her mind, were ‘afraid of looking inconsistent’ by calling the deal a loss.
‘They were so like, “Get ’em Trump, stick ’em, launch the war, do it, do it.’
‘And now they’re like, “Oh sh*t, we hate this.”‘
She pointed to her status as one of many Trump supporters who publicly ‘disagreed with’ the president’s decision to strike Iran alongside Israel, and how people like her have been subject to verbal attacks.
Kelly urged those Republicans to now speak out.
‘They’re so scared to be like, “This sucks, we hate it,” because they don’t want to look like hypocrites.’
She told them to ‘Have the balls to say, to actually feel, that you hate it.’
‘And good luck not blaming it on Trump if you hate it,’ she quipped.
Vance found himself defending the US-Iran deal at the White House on Thursday. He brushed aside a question about Trump potentially positioning him to be the ‘fall guy’ as details within the agreement remain unpopular with Republicans.
The following morning, Vance found himself defending the US-Iran deal at the White House on Thursday. He brushed aside a question about Trump potentially positioning him to be the ‘fall guy’
‘I think the president was joking,’ Vance said of Trump’s comments, years after penning a 2023 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal touting Trump’s promise of ‘no wars despite enormous pressure from his own party and even members of his own administration.’
Vance has long billed himself as being part of the ‘America First’ division of Republicans, with the other being a more hawkish group that Kelly had been criticizing. Many are supporters of Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was left ‘fuming’ over Trump’s agreement, according to a Wednesday report from Axios. The deal demands a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Other sticking points for Americans include a lack of specifics on what will happen to Iran’s enriched uranium or its nuclear program, with those details left to be addressed over the next 60 days. Iran was also granted relief from international sanctions.
The memorandum also states the US will ‘develop a definitive mutually agreed plan with at least $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran.’
Trump still told G7 Summit attendees, ‘We are not investing any money in Iran, by the way.’
‘We have the right to go in some day and do, if I want to do something or if somebody wants to do something. But we are not investing any money, we have no obligation to invest any money in Iran,’ he said.
Vance, on Thursday, said the Axios report was ‘not reflective of the conversations that I’ve had with [Netanyahu], but maybe he’s saying something to somebody else that he’s not saying to me.’
‘The other thing that I would say is that over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars,’ he also warned.
Kelly – a critic of the war since day one – told the Daily Mail in a lengthy statement: ‘The same people who said … “Nobody tells Donald Trump what to do,” are now claiming Trump has no agency in the settlement of this war and that it’s all somehow Vice President Vance’s decision.
‘JD Vance didn’t goad President Trump into anything,’ Kelly said. ‘There’s not a single report of, nor reason to believe that,’ she said in part.
