Megyn Kelly says watching Fox's coverage on Venezuela “was like watching Russian propaganda”
Kelly: “I will not be joining the Fox News cheerleading brigade this time. I've been burned too many times.”
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Megyn Kelly on Trump's attack on Venezuela
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From the January 5, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): I really think this is something we need to consider both sides on. I really do. I don't think -- let me just tell you something. When I was at Fox News, which was a long time, 14 years, I would have known exactly what to do in the wake of Trump's attack in Venezuela. His retrieval, shall we say, to put it in mild terms, of Nicolas Maduro. I would have known that I was supposed to cheerlead it.
And I turned on Fox News yesterday, and I'm sorry, but it was like watching Russian propaganda. There was nothing skeptical. It was all rah-rah cheerleading, yes, let's go.
And that's fine. I love our military as much as anyone, and I believe in President Trump, but there are serious reasons to just exercise a note of caution before we just get on the rah-rah train. All right. I have done that enough times in my career as a Fox News anchor to have been embarrassed enough to know I'm going to stay on the yellow light for this. I'm not in the green-light territory. I'm not in the red-light territory either, but I am staying in the yellow-light territory for now.
I see all of the strategic advantages of what he's done. Trust me. I do. I see that other countries like Russia and China and Cuba were all over Venezuela and its oil posing a potential threat to the United States. I get that. That's actually the most persuasive argument and obviously the real one and none of this bullshit about law enforcement. But I have seen what happens when you cheerlead, unabashedly, U.S. intervention in foreign countries thinking it's for our good and for the national and the international good only to wind up with what we've called quagmire in places like Iraq, not to mention Libya. We're not great at going into these foreign countries, decapitating them at the leadership level, and then saying either we're going to steer the country to a better place or it's going to steer itself. Either one. They just -- nine times out of 10, they don't work out well.
And what does it mean in terms of boots on the ground? Trump is saying, I'm actually fine with that in Venezuela. Well, whose boots? Because I have a 16 year-old boy, and I have a 12-year old boy, and I have a 14 year-old girl. And a lot of my listeners have children too who are actually the ones who might have to fill the boots. So I think I speak for a lot of moms and dads for that matter when I say I'm staying in yellow territory until we know more, and I will not be joining the Fox News cheerleading brigade this time. I've been burned too many times.