Topline
President Donald Trump backed right-wing commentator Mark Levin as a “Great American Patriot” as he feuds with fellow right-wing podcaster Megyn Kelly, part of a huge fracture among conservative pundits pitting prominent MAGA voices against each other over Israel and the war in Iran.
Key Facts
Trump praised Levin in a late-night
Truth Social post on Sunday, calling the commentator “Tough, Strong, and Brilliant” and a “true Conservative, and Intellect, far smarter than those who criticize him,” possibly referring to Kelly.
Trump’s comments came hours after Kelly and Levin exchanged insults on X, with
Levin calling Kelly an “emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck,” and, “Utterly toxic.”
Kelly responded to Levin with a vulgar nickname in a response on X, saying he “tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible” and “doesn’t like it when women like me fight back.”
Kelly and Levin have
feuded for months as they split over issues including the U.S. waging war in Iran, its close relations with Israel, and a seeming reluctance to release the Jeffrey Epstein files by the Trump administration.
Levin thanked Trump for his praise, saying he is “humbled” by the president’s “words and graciousness.”
Kelly then condemned Trump’s post Monday morning, accusing Levin of being an “OBSESSED HARASSER” and “such a SMALL MAN he had to go beg the president for a pat on the head (in the middle of a war!).”
