Old Pudgy Waddling Trump Lover Sean Hannity Sez 'Not Enough Americans Have Died In Iran, I Want More!"

Megyn Kelly: "Sean Hannity is Lindsey Graham by a different name. It's 
amazing to watch them cheerlead" the Iran war.

Kelly: "Fox News is salivating over the prospect of more war, ... and 
Lindsey Graham is its spokesperson"

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 03/10/26 2:08 PM EDT
Megyn Kelly: "Sean Hannity is Lindsey Graham by a different name. It's 
amazing to watch them cheerlead" the Iran war.
 

From the March 10, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show

MEGYN KELLY (HOST): There are reports that top Republicans in difficult 
races in November have been calling the White House saying, please, please 
find a way out. This is not going to be helpful. But if any part of any of 
this is true — and, again, the White House is denying they call this Wall 
Street Journal report full of crap that some advisers are pushing for an 
off ramp — but if any part of it is true, it's not going to matter if Sen. 
Lindsey Graham has his way and his cohort over at Fox News.

I mean, Sean Hannity is Lindsey Graham by a different name. It's amazing to 
me to watch them cheerlead this. I mean, we've got seven U. S. personnel 
dead. We've got a girls' school — a 175 young girls dead, in Iran, and 
there's serious dispute — we'll get into who's behind that.

...

And you would think, at a minimum, somebody like Sen. Graham would, like, 
pause and not look so bloodthirsty. How does that make the Trump 
administration look good when we know that he's working hand in hand with 
the president, that he's been one of his chief advisers, to make him look 
so cavalier about the death unfolding in the Middle East right now and the 
likely of more to come?

Last night on Hannity's program, he sounded — Lindsey Graham did — like he 
was our secretary of state or even our president. It was obscene. Who does 
he think he is? No one elected him as president. No one ever would. As if 
the American public would elect Lindsey Graham to lead this war. He thinks 
he's the commander in chief. He's starting to sound truly deluded, like 
someone who needs a psychiatric intervention.

...

This is getting insane, you guys. Someone needs to reel him in, and he 
needs to be absolutely nowhere near the president's orbit, as I said 
yesterday. But Fox News, I tweeted this out, is parading him around on all 
of its shows like he's a Hefner bunny in stockings and a bushy tail. They 
know exactly what President Trump wants to see and the messaging he wants 
to hear, and it is as bellicose and war hungry as you could possibly 
imagine. It's — it's is an isolationists or non-interventionalists worst 
nightmare.

It is exactly the opposite of what President Trump ran on. Exactly the 
opposite. And yet Fox News is salivating over the prospect of more war, an 
extended conflict, and Lindsey Graham is its spokesperson. And President 
Trump seems to be enjoying that, because if he weren't, we wouldn't be 
seeing that anymore.

These sound bites that we're going to play for you are all from one 
interview, one interview that Graham did last night with Sean Hannity. And 
I just have to say up front, Hannity offered zero pushback to any of this, 
zero to anything you were about to hear. Like, why not do your viewers the 
service of just saying at least, hey, you know, here's what your critics 
are saying, here's what the president's critics are saying? Fox prides 
itself on having allegedly more independents watching its programming than 
any other cable news channel. Well, that's not saying much. But why not 
service them and offer both sides?

Like, at least — you're not going to have somebody who actually disagrees 
with Lindsey Graham, but you as the anchor I used to do this. I know a 
thing or two about how to anchor a show that would wind up becoming the 
number one show in cable It for a Fox News audience in a way that's 
meaningful. Offer pushback if you don't have the other side. You, Sean, 
have to be the other side. I mean, that's what Roger Ailes praised all the 
time. When I was at Fox, he loved it when you did that because he thought 
it was a service to the audience. Those days are gone.

Now it's you cheerlead the war, support the military industrial complex, or 
it's -- you're a loser. It's just — it's infuriating because we're talking 
about life and death. We're talking about American life or death. And this 
is a dereliction of duty. At one point, he let Sen. Lindsey Graham speak 
uninterrupted for 6 minutes. Six minutes.

And this appears to be the president's main way of achieving an information 
briefing. You know, he said — he was talking about how, you know, he got 
into this war. He listened to Jared Kushner. He listened to Steve Witkoff. 
He listened to Lindsey Graham. That's very clear. He's been praising 
Lindsey Graham's appearances, which is why Fox News puts him on more and 
why Lindsey Graham feels totally at ease sounding like he's got the 
president's job.