Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly drew criticism over what some see as a complete flip-flop on Islam from the prominent Iran war critic.
The former Fox News commentator and ex-supporter of President Donald J. Trump has railed against the decision to attack the Islamic Republic, a war that the president insists is necessary to prevent the Iranians from obtaining a nuclear weapon that could be used against Israel.
During a recent conversation with veteran political reporter Mark Halperin, Kelly defended fellow MAGA renegade Tucker Carlson, whose own seeming embrace of the so-called “religion of peace” has resulted in an increased popularity with Muslims.
Here’s Megyn today bragging about her and Tuckers new audience of young Muslim men pic.twitter.com/pWIRNH8kT0
— WestCoast_Life (@westcoast_lyfe) May 5, 2026
“His show is doing fine, it’s not like he’s hurting for audience, but I think he’s understanding there may be some new listeners over here. You know, like, he’s gotten very, very popular lately, I read, with Muslim viewers, because he’s been standing up for Islam,” she said, according to a transcript.
“And I have to tell you, Mark, it’s been something I’ve noticed just since I’ve gotten sort of more clear-eyed on Israel, that a lot of the anti-Muslim rhetoric that’s put out there originates with people who are very, very pro-Israel, who kind of need us to demonize them, and I’ve taken a look recently at my own rhetoric on this to say, like, ‘Have I been manipulated?’ I want to make sure I’m not getting manipulated,” Kelly added.
“But I think he’s having a lot of Muslim viewers flock to him. I know for a fact he has a lot of young men flocking to him. And so while he may have lost some contingent of the Fox News audience that’s very, very pro-Israel, and, you know, pro-Trump, and you can’t say anything about Trump, for every one of those who leave, there is another newer, younger audience member who does wanna hear these traditional lines challenged, and hear just new independent thinking. I mean, I’m experiencing some of that myself, and Tucker probably times ten,” Kelly told Halperin.
Already seen as a political chameleon by some, Kelly’s sudden pro-Islam stance would seem to be more than a bit hypocritical, with X users resurfacing a take from earlier to suggest that the SiriusXM host is a flaming hypocrite.
Megyn Kelly’s INEXPLICABLE BACKFLIP on Islam: In the past four months, she’s gone from saying, “It’s your duty as a Christian to stand up and fight against it,”
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NOW celebrating Tucker Carlson’s growing Muslim audience – seemingly… pic.twitter.com/ktLkI5liZs— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) May 6, 2026
And if that isn’t convincing that Kelly is a flip-flopper, just take it straight from the horse’s mouth.
Islamophobia is a fake term made up to silence us. We’re allowed to not want Islam taking over American cities. Don’t be shamed out of that totally sensible position. https://t.co/PvBdXOTr6G
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) October 27, 2025
Her apparent newfound love for Islam invited a fierce reaction from X users, with one suggesting that she’s just an “empty vessel” who changes her viewpoint like most people change their socks.
She’s just an empty vessel. When she was at Fox, she was a conservative. At NBC she became liberal. She was anti Trump when she thought he’d lose. She was pro Trump when it was convenient. Now, she just mimics Tucker for hits. https://t.co/dn7hwKkQ1T
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) May 6, 2026
Others piled on.
Just a thought… maybe ‘Anti-Muslim sentiment’ ACTUALLY comes from the fact that 198M Muslims worldwide support the use of violence against civilian targets to defend Islam. https://t.co/nzazndPqVd
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) May 6, 2026
Seriously, Megyn Kelly has lost her damn mind. “Defends Islam” is a phrase no American commentator on the right should be doing. Islam is evil, nowhere where it’s the dominant religion is it not evil. I feel gross that I ever watched her or supported her. This is nasty stuff and… https://t.co/igAQoUjj71
— Wendy (@Windyb1979) May 6, 2026
Grifters found a market. Monetizable audiences are apparently fungible economic units to them. How about that. https://t.co/w6a0nMjYmy
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) May 6, 2026
Maybe Megyn Kelly was “manipulated,” as she puts it, by pro-Israel activists into embracing and even popularizing Islamophobia.
Of course, if that’s true, then she must have had unbelievably poor judgement.
And if *that’s* true, how can we be sure her judgement has improved? https://t.co/0PhfXh24kT
— Peter Savodnik (@petersavodnik) May 6, 2026
Megyn will pivot back to Trump soon and try to gaslight her own audience that none of this happened.
Unfortunately for her the internet is forever. https://t.co/HdX3KM08Tw
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) May 6, 2026
“He’s not a moral man, he’s obviously not the greatest husband in the world, and he’s extremely petty and thin-skinned. Extremely petty and thin-skinned,” Kelly recently said of Trump, adding, “What we’re seeing right now is he’s turning on his most loyal supporters because they don’t support this war, and getting in bed with people who f**king hate him and have hated him from the beginning, and were the original NeverTrumpers…”
