Megyn Kelly caller on Trump administration: “I think the bigger picture here is it's an erosion of our rights”
Caller: “It's just starting to remind me of the pictures that we saw when our military would go into dictatorships”
Published
Megyn Kelly caller on Trump administration: "I think the bigger picture here is it's an erosion of our rights"
Citation
From the May 4, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show
EMILY JASHINSKY (HOST): Going now to Daniel in Minnesota. You're on The Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show, what's on your mind?
CALLER: Hey, thanks for taking my call today. I really appreciate it. You know, I voted for Trump in 2024. I don't believe he won the election in 2020, but I voted for him in 2024.
I think we've seen kind of a sharp kind of turn, and I think a lot of people are forgetting to realize that you can't have a lot of things both ways. So, I guess, in talking about people that are, you know, celebrities, or media, or things like that, and how they're controlled, I guess, is really concerning to me. I think that anybody that's looking at [indistinguishable] — and I'm gonna use Jimmy Kimmel as an example because he's the most recent one — is it seems to me that if you address Trump in a way that he doesn't like to be addressed — now, he's our president. I didn't believe in the slang things and the foul language people were saying about Biden. I don't believe it's right to say that about Trump, but we have to call a spade a spade here.
Like, at what point can you defend that somebody can't criticize our president? And if they're jokes and you don't think they're funny, they may not be funny, but you — and this isn't the first time. You can't sue the media, and you can't try to get people fired, just because they don't do exactly what you want.
And I think the bigger picture here is it's an erosion of our rights, and I feel that when we start looking at that, you know, it just paints a really uncomfortable picture of a man that's our president that is influencing media, is influencing people that speak out in public, is influencing — celebrities and news media, putting his name on the Kennedy Center, putting his name on airports, wants to build arches in $400 million ballrooms but when I go to the grocery store, and you can't buy a pound of ground beef for less than $6 a pound, you know? You go to fill your tanks, but we're going to spend $400 on a ballroom or 400 million and 200 million on Trump Arch. And it costs money to put Trump's name on the Kennedy Center.
It's just starting to remind me of the pictures that we saw when our military would go into dictatorships like Iraq and tear down statues and pictures and everything is named after Saddam Hussein. I mean, I'm not comparing him to Saddam Hussein, but I'm just saying at what point are people going to wake up and be like, hey, I'm a conservative, but I don't believe that the president, at his own will, should be going after public figures.
Look at the millions of dollars that were put into Comey. Don't you think we should put that into other areas? Because I guarantee you, as much as I feel that Biden should have been investigated with his son receiving $50,000 a year from Burisma, I also think that it should be looked into that both of the Trump boys are getting multiple hundred million dollar contracts for drone companies, and they've never owned a drone — never built a drone.
I just think we need to look at this from a non-MAGA standpoint and say, when is enough enough? And when are we going to say, hey, this is outlandish. I just hope that both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in 2026 can put forth candidates that can be independent thinkers that don't look out for the welfare and the whims and the ego of one man. That's all I have to say.
JASHINSKY: I'd love — Well, I was gonna ask Daniel —
CALLER: So sorry, I had to paint a picture.
JASHISHINKY: No, no, no. I thought that was really interesting, and I hope we get more calls, — 83344 Megyn —on what you just said. I wanted to ask one more question, is that you said you voted for the president. And so when did you know — because you just said something very interesting. You know, enough is enough. When was enough enough for you? Because a lot of people probably just didn't even vote for him this time around. Maybe they thought they already had had enough. But what was it for you?
CALLER: First of all, I think I got to answer that by telling you why I voted for presidential.
JASHINSKY: Sure.
CALLER: Okay, I didn't like the FJB stuff, and I thought a lot of that was stupid. I thought it was below the decorum of what our presidency and what our great nation deserves. I didn't really like the election ran by either President Trump or Kamala Harris.
However, the platform that he ran on, I loved the no new wars, alright? I thought that was a big thing. I thought it was a big thing talking about bringing costs down and bringing jobs back and and and producing more oil and reaching our capacities there. Like, I just a lot of those things resonated with me.
I was very, very scared, and while it come came back to prove true that there wasn't an answer for Obamacare because your average — your average citizen right now, not only have health care costs gone through the roof, but have you priced out a plan a health care plan for a husband, a wife, and a child? It is unattainable. It is unattainable, and there's no safety net because that's been stripped away. And I feel that's been stripped away because, you know, it's just — let's erode everything everyone else did because if the name doesn't say Trump, it's terrible. You know?
I was a little bit offended — I was very offended when the Trump name went on the Kennedy Center. I thought it was ridiculous and below the decorum of our presidency when I saw the plaques that were put up. You just got to ask who wrote those, you know, for prior presidents. It's a laughing stock. It just — it doesn't make Trump look good. It makes us look bad.
But I think, for me, it's this never-ending hypocrisy. It's a 180 on everything that he ran for and everyone that was with him. It was seeing Kash Patel on another podcaster's — name won't name, love the guy, former Navy SEAL — he had all of them on. I listened to them in-depth, and I heard Kash Patel, you know what? He's using that plane for personal reasons. Why don't we ground that plane? And here we go. Okay, taxpayers just paid for you to go to the Olympics, and don't tell me otherwise. That's a farce.
You know, it's things like that. Everything that he said he was going to do, a vast majority of it, we've seen the opposite. And it really is a time where I'm so tired of these blind people. And like I said, I'm not pro-Democrat, okay? I'm pro-American, and and I want our country to be represented properly.
So, when I'm looking at this and I see Kash Patel, who has zero law enforcement experience, we see a Justice Department that he said would not be weaponized towards his enemies. Really? That's all we've seen from our Justice Department. And when it comes down to the FBI director, it's the same thing. What is wrong? What would be a fault in putting people in those positions that actually have experience? And, yes, that goes for Pete Hegseth too, okay? Well — why the leader of our Department of Defense his only curriculum is National Guard on a state level? Like, why is that? Why is the leader of our FBI have zero law enforcement experience, but he can make challenge coins with punisher heads on him and his own custom Nikes? It's ridiculous.
JASHINSKY: Well, Daniel — so, Daniel is just using that phrase a sham. Thanks for the call, Daniel. I want to get everyone else in on this because I think Daniel just started us off in a really interesting direction.