U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on the day of Trump's address, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Jerusalem, October 13, 2025.
In a presidency full of consequential actions, few if any have resulted in as much blowback as President Donald Trump’s decision to launch war on Iran. While he has received criticism for it from across the political spectrum, Trump has garnered a surprising amount of negative commentary from some of his closest allies.
On Thursday, such a statement came from one of the president’s most devoted supporters, former General and Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn.
In a post to X, Flynn asserted that while he believes Trump has good instincts, “the man at the top rarely acts alone… Good presidents have been maneuvered into catastrophic decisions by advisors with other agendas who suffered none of the consequences.”
Flynn posted this over a retweet of a clip from the show Piers Morgan Uncensored, in which conservative commentator Megyn Kelly discusses the influence Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought to the president’s decision-making.
Complaining about reports that Netanyahu was allowed a commanding seat in the White House Situation Room, Kelly wondered, “What led [Trump] to sit there and buy what that guy was selling hook, line, and sinker when every other president was able to see through that liar? Because he was told the next day by our own top advisors — from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the Secretary of State to the Vice President — that these are lies, and that these objectives are not going to be obtainable.”
Kelly went on to say that the Trump Administration’s claims that regime change had taken place were “B.S.,” noting that “it’s the same regime just different players.”
“There isn’t someone more moderate in there at all,” Kelly elaborated. “We have no reason to believe that. In fact it looks like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard is in control now, which is far more radical. The fatwa that had allegedly been issued by the Ayatollah on developing nukes is gone. Iran is more powerful economically — it controls the Strait and now is demanding the lifting of all sanctions against it.”
In the end, Kelly suggested that Trump’s willingness to accept the proposed Iranian peace plan was nothing more than “a means of saving face to bail off of his insane threats about annihilating an entire civilization.”
“We got here because of Bibi Netanyahu, Lindsey Graham, and Mark Levin — and ultimately President Trump,” she concluded. “He was bamboozled. He was too gullible to see through the lies. One way or another, he allowed himself to be pushed into this insane conflict.”