Megyn Kelly Accuses ABC’s David Muir of ‘Abject Vanity’ During L.A. Fire TV Coverage

The former Fox News host-turned-SiriusXM podcaster complained that “people are dying and he’s worried how svelte his waist looks.”

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Megyn Kelly accused ABC News anchor David Muir of “abject vanity” after he was seen using clothespins to tailor his yellow fire jacket while reporting Wednesday from the Los Angeles-area wildfires.

“Why is he wearing a pretend fireman’s jacket to begin with?” she wrote in a post on X on Thursday, continuing, “[Because] he’s an actor performing a role. Which makes the waist-cinching clothespins in the back perfectly on brand.”

Some more charitable X users speculated that the wooden clothespins were to hold his lapel microphone in place, while others assumed, like Kelly, that he had used them out of vanity to style the jacket and to make it appear more flattering around his waist.

Kelly, who now hosts a talk show on Sirius XM after stints at Fox News and NBC, complained that “[people] are dying/losing everything and he’s worried about how svelte his waist looks.”

Other users on X did ask if Muir was physically capable of putting the clothespins on his own jacket or whether it was perhaps the work of a flustered producer.

“His producer probably got momentarily carried away with the clothespin tailoring,” wrote Lynda Edwards, a reporter at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, on X.

Kelly has herself wrestled with overzealous makeup artists during her 20-year career working in TV news.

She wrote in her book Settle for More how she had tried and failed to stop makeup artists from giving her false eyelashes before appearing on screen in New York. “Are we doing Hollywood, or are we doing news?” she complained at first, before relenting.