Megyn Kelly: “We seem to have a new goal in ending this war ... open the Strait of Hormuz. You mean the strait that was open before we began the bombing campaign?”
Kelly: “This is not something you can just double and triple and quadruple down on and have the problem get better. ... Everything he built, the entire coalition we were all part of, will be ruined.”
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Megyn Kelly: "We seem to have a new goal in ending this war, ... open the Strait of Hormuz. You mean the strait that was open before we began the bombing campaign?"
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From the March 27, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Iran is actually making money because they’ve taken over the Strait of Hormuz. They control it. The Saudi and the other countries in the Gulf are not exporting their oil, but Iran is. Iran’s letting its own ships go through, and they’re getting their oil out.
And now we — we seem to have a new goal in ending this war, which is we need to open the Strait of Hormuz. You mean the strait that was open before we began the bombing campaign?
I mean, it was open. There was no problem with Strait of Hormuz. Like, it was fine. The reason it’s closed is because we decided to start a war. And this is the only thing these guys can control, and they know it, and they’re doing it rather effectively.
And you can hear Trump’s frustration as he’s like, NATO should get over there and help us. And NATO — the NATO countries are like, we agreed to help defensively. If you get attacked by another country. You didn’t. We don’t want part of this quagmire. We’re out. And Trump’s trying to guilt them into it, and it’s not working.
And then he says, you know, he’s picking on random adversaries — or random allies of ours being like, how about you? You owe us. You owe us. You owe us. You can see him, he’s getting frustrated.
But this is not something you can just double and triple and quadruple down on and have the problem get better, because Trump, as his frustration grows and he tries to guilt our allies into helping us, and they’re not, seems to be saying, alright. Fine. We’ll do it, you effers. And he's sending -- five to 7,000 troops are already there, Jesse.
It’s five to 7,000 who arrived today. And now The Wall Street Journal reporting last night that we’ve — he’s considering sending more than, more than, a minimum of 10,000 more. So now we’re talking about 17,000 American ground troops, minimum, that we may have over there.
And let me give you another statistic from the polling. Reuters did a poll eight days ago. You know what percentage of the American people support a, quote, major ground invasion? By any standard, five to 17,000 American troops is a major ground invasion. Seven. 7% of Americans would support a major ground invasion. We cannot send five to 17,000 troops into Iran and ever win a Republican election again for the next 10 to 20 years.
He cannot do that. We — everything he built, the entire coalition we were all part of, will be ruined.