Fox News personality Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday made a claim about Iran that some critics found more than a little ironic ― so much so that they thought she might’ve been talking about President Donald Trump and his MAGA faithful.
Asked about the growing conflict in the Middle East, McEnany predicted that Trump will “take out Iran’s nuclear program” and “end the Iranian regime’s pursuit of nuclear weapons forevermore.”
McEnany, who served as Trump’s press secretary during his previous term, said Iran’s pursuit of those weapons is especially dangerous because of its ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“When you combine fanaticism, no care for self-preservation and radical religious beliefs with nuclear weapons, that is a danger,” she told the network’s Jesse Watters.
But critics said those same factors could apply equally to her former boss and his most devoted followers: