Megyn Kelly likened Lindsey Graham to a ‘Playboy bunny in stockings’ as she slammed the MAGA senator for ‘parading around’ Fox News to drum up support for war with Iran.
The conservative commentator has emerged as a leading critic of the conflict from within Donald Trump’s base and directed her fury at Graham in a series of furious X posts on Monday.
She branded the South Carolina Senator a ‘homicidal maniac’ for his ardent support for war with Iran and his expansionist rhetoric.
‘Let’s get real. The problem with Lindsay [sic] Graham isn’t (just) that he’s a homicidal maniac, it’s that Trump likes and is listening to him, and Trump’s favorite channel is parading him around like a Hefner bunny in stockings on every show,’ she wrote.
Kelly, a former Fox News anchor, continued her attacks on Graham as she shared clips of him appearing on her former network, including one where he proclaimed he is ‘with Israel until my dying day.’
Graham pointed his remarks ‘to all the anti-Semites and isolationists’, telling them: ‘I’m not with you, I’m with Israel.’
Kelly said in a caption to the clip: ‘Att’n South Carolinians with doubts about the Iran war: your U.S. Senator says explicitly “I’m not with you, I’m with Israel.”’
The commentator also slammed Graham for his hawkish foreign policy stances in recent days, which has seen him threaten to turn Trump’s military might onto Cuba, Lebanon and Spain.
Megyn Kelly likened Senator Lindsey Graham to a ‘Playboy bunny in stockings’ as she slammed the MAGA senator ‘parading around’ Fox News to drum up support for war with Iran
The former Fox News anchor directed her fury at Graham in a series of furious X posts on Monday, including branding him a ‘homicidal maniac’
Graham’s animosity toward Spain comes as it refused to allow US forces to use Spanish military bases for its strikes on Iran, which led Trump to threaten to cut off all trade with the nation.
In a Fox News appearance on Monday, Graham told Spain it had ‘lost its way’, and proclaimed: ‘I don’t want to do business with you anymore.’
Kelly shared the clip to her 3.6 million X followers, questioning: ‘When did Lindsey Graham become our president?’
‘In the past 24 hours he’s threatened Lebanon, Cuba, the Saudis, the wider Arab region and now – checks notes – Spain,’ she wrote.
Graham, a one-time presidential candidate in 2016, has emerged as one of Trump’s closest advisors on the war with Iran, steering the president away from the isolationist policies that he touted in the 2024 election.
In her show on Monday, Kelly urged Trump to lose Graham as a sounding board, warning that his stances threaten to erode Trump’s support ahead of the midterms.
‘This guy is a homicidal maniac with a bloodlust that is insatiable,’ she said, citing reports that Graham urged Trump to expand the war into Lebanon this week.
‘He got us into the Iranian war, now he wants us to get involved in a Lebanese war and he wants us to go into Cuba.
‘This guy should be nowhere near President Trump. He should not be allowed 20 feet of the President’s orbit.’
The Daily Mail has contacted Graham for response to Kelly’s comments.
Graham has emerged as one of Trump’s closest advisors on the war with Iran, steering the president away from the isolationist policies that he touted in the 2024 election
Kelly likened Lindsey Graham to a ‘Playboy bunny in stockings’ for ‘parading’ himself on Fox News to drum up support for war with Iran
Kelly maintains that she remains a Trump supporter, but has become one of the most vocal opponents of his war with Iran in recent weeks.
After six US servicemen were killed in an Iran strike on a US base in Kuwait, Kelly used her show to berate Trump for being ‘dragged into’ a war in the Middle East against his campaign promises.
She questioned whether US soldiers were losing their lives ‘for Iran or Israel’, prompting a furious response from Trump.
He told The Inner Circle in an interview that Kelly ‘should study her history book a little bit.’
‘I guess she maybe doesn’t like the idea of this war, but I do because I have to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of the Iranians.’
‘I have to do what’s right, number one and you can’t have Iran getting a nuclear weapon. That’s predominant to me,’ Trump explained.
‘Megyn was opposed to me for years when I ran the first time and nothing stopped me,’ he added. ‘And so, you know, some people are against – and they always come back. She came all the way back.’
