The move came after President Trump threatened on social media that "an entire civilization" would die - hours before the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire in the war with Iran.
"You're not threatening to wipe out an entire civilization," Kelly said
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It is completely irresponsible and disgusting.
She's not alone. Tucker Carlson devoted a large portion of a recent podcast to criticizing Trump's "lousy" Easter Sunday social media posts. In them, the president called Iran "you crazy bastards" and threatened hell if they didn't "open the fucking strait."
"Who do you think you are? You're tweeting the f-word on Easter Sunday," an outraged Carlson said on the podcast.
Politically homeless?
Like Kelly, he previously hosted on conservative Fox News. Both have campaigned for and with Donald Trump, and are known within the right-wing MAGA movement (after Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again"). Now they lead some of the country's most influential podcasts, with audiences of millions.
They are not alone. Joe Rogan, whose podcast has tens of millions of listeners, supported Trump's candidacy in 2024. But a few weeks ago, after he blamed Trump for the war with Iran - arguing the president had promised to keep the country out of war and to focus on the United States - Rogan now describes himself as "politically homeless."
He is joined by former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has strongly criticized Trump for both his handling of the so-called Epstein files and the Iran war, as well as far-right figures Alex Jones and Candace Owens. Owens has advocated on X that Trump be removed through the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which can be used if a president is deemed incapable of carrying out his office.
"Maybe it's time to put grandpa in a home," she wrote last week to her 7.8 million followers.
Stupid troublemakers
Trump, for his part, claims in a social media post that Carlson, Kelly and Owens have "low IQs" and are "troublemakers" who will do anything for publicity.
But the fact is that it was largely their listeners who delivered the election victory to him in 2024.
The question is how criticism from those media figures lands among voters. War is not popular in the MAGA sphere, where many are conservative and religious. The fact that the president has also made fun of Allah, had a public argument with the Pope, and posted (and later deleted) an AI image depicting him as Jesus has not made the situation any better.
“Blasphemy,” Taylor Greene thunders about the image.
Republican Donald Trump took office for his second term as President of the United States on January 20, 2025. Since then, support for him has declined, which is common for a sitting president.
Currently, 41.4 percent believe that Trump is doing a good job, while 56.8 percent do not think so, according to RealClearPolitics' compilation of 13 current polls.
According to the website Fiftyplusone, an opinion aggregator that weights current surveys using a mathematical model, Trump's support is lower: 37.8 percent, while 58.2 percent disapprove of the president's job performance. The figures are in line with those reported on the website Silver Bulletin, started by polling expert Nate Silver.
