Two prominent figures in conservative media — former Fox News hosts Megyn Kelly and Mark Levin — exploded into an extraordinary public feud over the weekend, unleashing a torrent of personal insults on X that drew in President Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and even Ben Shapiro.
The incident that ignited the weekend’s fireworks traces back to a post Kelly shared from Drop Site News co-founder Ryan Grim.
That post noted that the terror suspect behind last week’s synagogue bombing in Michigan had lost his nephew and niece in a recent Israeli airstrike.
Levin, one of the most vocal supporters of Israel in conservative media, responded swiftly and harshly, labeling Kelly “evil” and “diabolical” for sharing the post.
Kelly fired back at Levin on Saturday, writing, “I’m sorry you have a micro penis but don’t drag the rest of us into your drama.”
Levin did not let the attack go unanswered and escalated Sunday with a lengthy broadside directed at Kelly.
“Poor Megyn Kelly. An emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck,” Levin wrote.
“She’s completely revealed and destroyed herself. She’s everything people say she is, but much worse. Never an intelligent, thoughtful, or substantive comment. Utterly toxic.”
Kelly refused to stand down, returning to X on Sunday and comparing Levin’s posting habits to those of stalkers she has dealt with personally.
“Micropenis Mark thinks he has the monopoly on lewd,” Kelly wrote. “He tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible. Literally more than some stalkers I’ve had arrested. He doesn’t like it when women like me fight back. Bc of his micropenis.”
The two-day barrage represents a significant escalation in a months-long war of words between the pair, driven in large part by deepening divisions within conservative media over Israel, Iran, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
Kelly has publicly criticized the U.S. and Israeli involvement in the Iran conflict and has declined to cut ties with Carlson and Owens.
Late last year, Shapiro publicly called Kelly out by name at TurningPointUSA’s America Fest over her refusal to denounce Owens, who has been pushing so-called conspiracy theories about Erika Kirk’s alleged connection to her late husband’s death.
Kelly has stated publicly that she will not be pressured into public denunciations and has argued that skepticism toward Israel’s military actions is being treated as a disqualifier by Levin and Shapiro.
The infighting intensified further over the weekend when Carlson claimed the CIA had read his text messages with Iranian officials and said he feared potential foreign agent charges.
Owens responded to those claims with a stark message of her own: “If they come for Tucker, we ride at dawn. Really nothing else to say here. We’re not doing the gulags 2.0 with these Bolshevik descendants.”
President Trump entered the fray Sunday night, posting on Truth Social in defense of Levin without naming Kelly directly.
“Mark Levin, a truly Great American Patriot, is somewhat under siege by other people with far less Intellect, Capability, and Love for our Country,”Trump wrote, calling Levin “a true Conservative” and a man of “Great Wisdom and Common Sense.”
Trump also warned that “those that speak ill of Mark will quickly fall by the wayside, as do the people whose ideas, policies, and footings are not sound.”
Trump tied the feud directly to his political movement, declaring, “THEY ARE NOT MAGA, I AM, and MAGA includes not allowing Iran, a Sick, Demented, and Violent Terrorist Regime, to have a Nuclear Weapon.”
Levin responded to Trump’s words on X, stating he was “beyond humbled” by the president’s support.
