Megyn Kelly: “The nerve of Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin, both of whom are two original ‘Never Trumpers,' to now cloak themselves in MAGA gear”
Kelly: “Trump ran as a restrainer, as somebody who is against war. And now they look at people like you and like me who believed Trump on that and who would really like to hold him to it as some sort of turncoats”
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Megyn Kelly: "The nerve of Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin, both of whom are two original ‘Never Trumpers,' to now cloak themselves in MAGA gear"
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From the March 25, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
CURT MILLS (GUEST): What you're seeing right now is that you have a sort of Empire Strikes Back moment of the Bush-wing Republican Party, and they're using Trump as kind of a figurehead and mascot. It's a MAGA drag act. And, you know --
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Yes.
MILLS: These forces very much want to, you know, once Mr. Trump leaves the scene, once he doesn't run for that third term, you know, they thank him for his service, they thank him for the Iran war, and then they want to knife JD Vance, and then they want to put Marco Rubio up or Ted Cruz up and go back to business as usual circa 2015.
KELLY: That's exactly right. I mean, the nerve of Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin, both of whom are two original “Never Trumpers," to now cloak themselves in MAGA gear and act like they've been with Trump all along and really Trump is just doing the bidding of the Republican Party, when Trump ran as a restrainer, as somebody who is against war. And now they look at people like you and like me who believed Trump on that and who would really like to hold him to it as some sort of turncoats, you know, unpatriotic, disgusting — it's like, wait. Woah, woah, woah, woah. We're still where Trump said he was the entire time he ran and governed the first time.
MILLS: Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, it is heinous and disturbing for the country that the command center, the nerve center, seems to be — of the White House's media operation at this point — are people like Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Barry Weiss' media outfits. These are people who all vociferously opposed Trump. They opposed Trump more, in my opinion, than Hillary Clinton.