Megyn Kelly rips MSNBC hosts for 'ugly' remarks on cancer survivor DJ Daniel, 13, being honored by Trump
WASHINGTON, DC: In a heartwarming moment, cancer survivor DJ Daniel, 13, beamed with pride as President Donald Trump honored him in his joint address to Congress. However, some MSNBC hosts criticized the moment, even describing the POTUS' gesture as "disgusting"— a view that Megyn Kelly strongly pushed back against.
On the latest episode of 'The Megyn Kelly Show', the former Fox News host eviscerated MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow for their distasteful reactions to Daniel’s big moment.
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Even Trump weighed in on the controversy, suggesting that both Wallace and Maddow should lose their jobs over their offensive remarks, The Hill reported
Megyn Kelly goes off on Rachel Maddow and Nicole Wallace
"Trump Derangement Syndrome makes people say and do incredibly ugly things, and MSNBC is proof," Megyn Kelly declared on her show.
Reading Wallace’s outrageous comments aloud on her podcast, Kelly was visibly stunned. "I don’t know what’s happened to this person," she said, referring to the MSNBC host's past as a Republican who once worked on Chief Justice John Roberts’ confirmation process.
"It’s Nicolle Wallace, who now I think her next job will be with the Lincoln Project," Kelly said.
Kelly replayed Wallace’s remarks about DJ Daniel, pausing to let the sheer absurdity of it sink in. "Oh my God. That is jaw-dropping," she said.
The reaction on MSNBC’s own set was also telling. Jen Psaki and Rachel Maddow—two of the most die-hard liberal figures on TV—seemed visibly uncomfortable.
"We went back and looked to see what the reaction on-set was to her, and even her fellow panelists, from Jen Psaki to Rachel Maddow, you could see Jen Psaki literally leaning away from her," Kelly noted.
"Even Rachel Maddow just moved away, bridged away to another topic. When you’ve gone too far for Psaki and Maddow, you’ve gone too far. Period. Can you believe that?" she asked.
What did Nicole Wallace and Rachel Maddow say exactly?
During MSNBC’s coverage after Donald Trump's address to the joint session of Congress, Nicole Wallace made an inexplicable comparison between 13-year-old cancer survivor DJ Daniel, the January 6, 2021, riot, and police suicides.
"But I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that you let yourself feel," Wallace said on-air. "And I let myself feel joy about DJ, and I hope he’s alive for another, you know, 95 years, and I hope he lives the life he wants to live. He wants to be a cop. He knows what he wants to do, and maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you," she added.
But then, out of nowhere, she took a dark and bizarre turn.
"I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer," she continued. "But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters, and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide, and I hope he isn’t one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people."
Not to be outdone, Maddow also mocked the moment and accused Trump of turning DJ’s story into a "spectacle."
"This was in the midst of him praising [the Department of Government Efficiency]," she scoffed. "The DOGE cuts, among other things, have cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer."
Megyn Kelly says there's 'no curing TDS’
Megyn Kelly did not hold back in her assessment of MSNBC’s Donald Trump obsession, calling it a "lifelong affliction" that has completely warped how these pundits see the world.
"There’s no curing you of TDS once you get it. It’s a lifelong affliction, and it really does warp the way you see everything around you," she said. "You see the pot of gold, and to you it looks like crap. You see a wonderful event for a child, and instead, you see only doom, gloom, and darkness if it has anything to do with the orange man."
Speaking of Wallace's comments, Kelly continued, "She saw the same thing we saw, where his eyes got all big when President Trump said he was going to be made an honorary Secret Service member, he was so excited the hug, he threw his arms around the Secret Service Director. It was a sincere embrace, and that’s where she went. Like, 'I hope he doesn’t die on President Trump’s Capitol Hill.'"
She went on to say that the rest of the country has moved on, while networks like MSNBC continue to wither on the vine post-election.
"When you’re in the opposition, your numbers go up. At Fox News, our numbers always went up when we were in the so-called opposition under Barack Obama. Their numbers are not going up under MSNBC. Post-election, they’re still withering on the vine," Kelly added.
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