Megyn Kelly weighed in on Donald Trump's age and cognitive abilitites.
She said that he is increasingly confused and is not as "mentally sharp" as he once was.
Kelly said that both Biden and Trump, who are likely to face each other in 2024, are "too old."
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Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly said former President Donald Trump is not as "mentally sharp" as he once was.
"There's no question that Trump has lost a step or multiple steps," Kelly told conservative commentator Glenn Beck on Friday. "He is confusing Joe Biden for Obama. I know he's now saying he intentionally did that — go back and look at the clips, it wasn't intentional."
She noted that he is making mistakes "repeatedly," including "confusing countries, confusing cities where he is."
"With all due respect to Trump, this is what happens when you're 77 years old. Trump seems inhuman, but he's not inhuman. He's a human. He's a man."
Trump's presidential nomination rivals are also challenging his mental capacities. Kelly highlighted a DeSantis' jab at Trump, who said, "Father Time spares no one."
Kelly moderated the fourth Republican primary debate hosted by NewsNation on Wednesday, which Trump did not attend.
While speaking to Beck, Kelly said she believed the Republican party needed to have an "undercard" in case Trump ends up jailed or unable to run due to his ongoing legal issues.
She also spoke about thinking within the Republican party that both Trump and President Joe Biden are "too old" and "not as fit as we would like them to be."
"Look, if it's between Trump and Biden, I don't think there's any question who's more fit and more capable. But are we really going to pretend that Donald Trump is just as vibrant and mentally sharp as he was in '16?"
In a post on Truth Social just after midnight on Friday, Trump weighed in on the GOP debate and said that "the biggest loser was Megyn Kelly."
"What the hell happened to her? She has lost whatever she once had, which wasn't very much," he wrote.
It's unclear whether Trump was responding to her comments about him or her general performance moderating the debate.
Beetlejuice_hero on December 10th, 2023 at 13:24 UTC »
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
July 2016iroquoispliskinV on December 10th, 2023 at 12:19 UTC »
You have to go back like 20 years to find a clip where he doesn't sound like a scrambled brain
iiitme on December 10th, 2023 at 12:07 UTC »
When was he ever sharp