Megyn Kelly slammed the Navy’s use of an active-duty drag queen enlistee to be the army department’s “digital ambassador” in an effort to draw recruits, saying that those who accepted the choice have “misplaced their minds.”
“This isn’t anyone anyone needs in a foxhole with him,” Kelly mentioned on her SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Present” throughout Thursday’s broadcast.
Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley — a self-identified non-binary, who is known by the stage name Harpy Daniels — had taken to social media to disclose performing in drag exhibits.
“I’m sorry, however who is that this inspiring to affix the Navy?” Kelly mentioned throughout her podcast on Thursday.
“I’d a lot moderately have a badass, precise lady defending the nation or an everyday man.”
Kelly mentioned that being non-binary is “not a factor.”
“You’re one or the opposite,” the previous Fox Information and NBC star mentioned.
“You aren’t each female and male. Sorry to interrupt it to you, Kelley.”
Kelly lamented that the army has develop into “obsessive about identification now” — not like in years previous when it was “traditionally overwhelmed out of those guys and gals as quickly as they confirmed up.”
“You’re not black, not white, not Hispanic,” Kelly mentioned.
“You’re not non-binary. You’re a Marine. You’re a SEAL. You’re an Military Ranger.”
“That’s what the messaging was once.”
Kelly added: “Please inform me he’s not defending us towards [Russian President] Vladimir Putin [or Chinese President] Xi Jinping.”
“Please inform me that man might be nowhere close to the battle.”
Kelley hit back at critics on Wednesday, posting a video to TikTok and Instagram.
“You solely need to assist the army when it advantages you and doesn’t contain queer individuals,” Kelly wrote within the caption.
“But the army is the most important various, and adaptable group within the use.”
“Nicely as a service member, a queen, and an open queer particular person. You don’t scare me and also you received’t cease the LGBTQ+ group for thriving!”
Robert J. O’Neill, the adorned Navy SEAL veteran who was a part of the staff that killed Osama bin Laden, spoke out against the Navy’s new recruitment campaign featuring Kelley.
“Alright. The US Navy is now utilizing an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter. I’m carried out. China goes to destroy us. YOU GOT THIS NAVY. I can’t consider I fought for this bulls-t,” O’Neill wrote to his 590,500 followers.
The newest controversy involving the Navy is much like the fierce debate stirred by Bud Light’s use of transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney to advertise its beer model.
