Trump's "Civilization Will Die Tonight" Iran Warning, and Tucker's Harsh Critique, with Glenn Greenwald | Ep. 1290

On April 7, 2026, Megyn Kelly hosts a fiery live episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, dissecting President Trump’s escalating rhetoric toward Iran, including his Easter Sunday threat to 'wipe out an entire civilization' by 8 p.m. Eastern. Kelly condemns Trump’s social media post—complete with profanity and religious mockery—as reckless, dehumanizing, and incompatible with presidential dignity. She is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who argues that while Trump may not intend to carry out such threats, the danger lies in the normalization of apocalyptic language from the world’s most powerful leader. Greenwald emphasizes that Trump’s war with Iran, driven by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s misleading intelligence briefings, is not in America’s interest but serves Israel’s strategic goals. He details how Netanyahu presented a fantasy of quick regime change, featuring the exiled Reza Pahlavi as a supposed successor, while U.S. intelligence officials dismissed the plan as 'farcical.' The episode reveals a deep institutional failure: Trump ignored his own intelligence agencies, dismissed warnings from generals and officials, and instead embraced Israel’s overblown narrative. Kelly and Greenwald express alarm over the psychological toll on Iran’s civilians, the risk of nuclear escalation, and the political manipulation of American public opinion through manufactured crises. They also spotlight Tucker Carlson’s growing dissent, now at odds with Trump, and the dangerous influence of far-right figures like Mark Levin and Lindsey Graham, whose rhetoric fuels war fever. The episode ends with a call for accountability, a return to American priorities, and an urgent plea for the war to end before it spirals into global catastrophe.