{"id":2379212,"date":"2026-04-18T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2379212"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:26:12","slug":"megyn-kelly-turns-on-pete-hegseth-it-makes-me-very-uncomfortable-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/megyn-kelly-turns-on-pete-hegseth-it-makes-me-very-uncomfortable-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly turns on Pete Hegseth &#8211; &#8216;it makes me very uncomfortable&#8217; &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Megyn Kelly has criticized her &#8220;friend&#8221; Pete Hegseth for his actions amid the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent episode of her SiriusXM podcast, The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Megyn Kelly\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/megyn-kelly\">Megyn Kelly<\/a> Show, the 55-year-old former Fox News anchor opened up about how her friendship with the 45-year-old United States Secretary of War has evolved over the years. Kelly said she played a significant role in getting <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Pete Hegseth\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/pete-hegseth\">Hegseth<\/a> his job at the Pentagon. However, her opinion of him has changed since he started quoting scripture and talking about wiping out the Iranian people.<\/p>\n<p>The talk show host said, &#8220;I&#8217;m a fan of Pete&#8217;s. I helped get him his job. He would be the first to tell you that. However, I am not a fan of the praying and the constant references to God, Jesus, and the Bible from the Pentagon while he&#8217;s announcing war plans.&#8221; This comes after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/news\/us-news\/204980\/democrats-officially-file-six-impeachment-against-hegseth?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\">Democrats officially filed six impeachment articles against Hegseth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly continued, &#8220;It makes me very uncomfortable, very. I do not think those two things belong together. I much prefer the Dan &#8216;Raizin&#8217; Caine approach of just the facts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Religion, obviously, it&#8217;s a major part of Pete&#8217;s life, that&#8217;s great and I&#8217;m in favor of that. It doesn&#8217;t belong when you&#8217;re talking about our plans to wipe out people, including possible civilians, as President Trump continues to threaten.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;These two things do not belong together, and I just &#8211; I&#8217;m really uncomfortable with it. If <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/joe-biden\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Joe Biden<\/a> did this, through his Pentagon, I would&#8217;ve ripped him a new one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And therefore, not withstanding my friendship with Pete, I feel the need to register my strong objection to what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An X user named Christopher Webb shared the clip of Kelly talking about Hegseth and wrote, &#8220;Megyn Kelly admits she was a driving force in getting Pete Hegseth the job, now she&#8217;s clutching pearls because he&#8217;s quoting scripture while talking about wiping people out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did she even realize the scripture was fake? I guess they\u2019ve got each other convinced they&#8217;re Christians, that&#8217;s about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the comments of his post, several fellow social media users slammed Kelly, with one person writing, &#8220;Imagine telling the world you got Pete Hegseth the job he&#8217;s totally unqualified for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another slammed, &#8220;She really thinks too much of herself,&#8221; as a third said, &#8220;Sadly, Megyn is very two faced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet another bashed Hegseth, chiming in, &#8220;Disappointed propagandist\u2026what recommended him for the position? Tattoos?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hegseth was recently mocked after delivering a prayer during a worship service held at the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, offering a blessing in support of the ongoing Iran war effort.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed his words were drawn from a passage in the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n<p>A clip of Pete reciting the scripture during the religious service emerged online Thursday, April 16, in which he declared, &#8220;The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blessed is he who in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherd the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother&#8217;s keeper and the finder of lost children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother, and you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Amen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite Hegseth&#8217;s claim that his prayer came from the Ezekiel 25:17 passage, his delivery bore a strong resemblance to the iconic monologue delivered by Samuel L. Jackson&#8217;s character Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s 1994 film Pulp Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>In the movie, Jules recites a fictionalized version of the biblical text immediately before killing another character.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a passage I got memorized, seems appropriate for this situation: Ezekiel 25:17,&#8221; the 77-year-old actor&#8217;s character, Jules, said. &#8220;The path of righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>His character continued, &#8220;Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother&#8217;s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following this monologue, Jules fired his weapon, fatally shooting another character. The real Ezekiel 25:17 passage actually states, &#8220;And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the film were quick to recognize the source of Hegseth&#8217;s prayer, taking to social media to mock him for the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pete Hegseth quotes a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon prayer service,&#8221; one user posted on X, while another commented, &#8220;Pete Hegseth dropped a Bible quote in a Pentagon meeting&#8230;. what he didn&#8217;t know is that it&#8217;s not a Bible quote but from Pulp Fiction, invented for Pulp Fiction jajajajaja that&#8217;s the world we&#8217;re living in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A third user posted, &#8220;Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service. You can&#8217;t make this s&#8212; up folks!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megyn Kelly has criticized her &#8220;friend&#8221; Pete Hegseth for his actions amid the war in Iran. During a recent episode of her SiriusXM podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, the 55-year-old former Fox News anchor opened up about how her friendship with the 45-year-old United States Secretary of War has evolved over the years. 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