By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-15 21:02:44 | Updated at 2024-11-27 02:56:06
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Megyn Kelly laughed at the 'delightful' exodus of progressives, like Don Lemon and Joy Reid, leaving X after Donald Trump's 2024 presidential election win.
'This makes me thrilled,' Kelly, 53, said on her show on Thursday. 'Goodbye! We won't miss you, take care!'
She said watching Reid and Lemon's videos made her cry a 'single tear of joy' as the liberal voices left the platform - although, the former Fox News host doesn't believe they'll be gone for long.
'They'll be back, because Joy can't stand to lose her 1.9 million [followers],' Kelly dismissively said, before touting: 'Twitter is the best news source there is.'
The blonde journalist - alongside the four Ruthless podcast hosts - all laughed as she made fun of Lemon's reasoning for leaving the platform.
Lemon drew sharp criticism of Musk's company changing its terms of service - starting on November 15.
The new terms will force all disputes against X to go through the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas or State Courts located in Tarrant County.
Those courts are located in conservative hubs, which will make it easier for the controversial company to shield itself from litigation, according to The Washington Post.
Megyn Kelly laughed at the 'delightful' exodus of progressives, like Don Lemon and Joy Reid, leaving X after Donald Trump 's 2024 presidential election win. 'This makes me thrilled. Goodbye! We won't miss you, take care!' she said
She said watching Reid and Lemon's videos made her cry a 'single tear of joy' as the liberal voice left the platform - although, the former Fox News host doesn't believe they'll stray for too long
'He wants us to believe it's because the forum selection clause in the new terms as opposed to the fact that everyone hates him,' she chuckled.
'And she's only been there, guys, because she didn't want someone to seize her name and misuse [it], okay sure,' she said of Reid. 'These people.'
Author Stephen King also left the platform, alongside, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Midler, and the British newspaper, The Guardian.
Their announcements, according to Kelly, 'undercut [their] whole point' of actually departing from the platform - a move the podcast host said was just attention-seeking.
She took particular offense to The Guardian's departure, saying: 'This is supposed to be a news outlet that can't take news it finds upsetting.'
The publication said on Wednesday that the recent US presidential election had underlined its view that the online forum, formerly known as Twitter, was a 'toxic media platform.'
Insisting that the benefits of being on the platform were 'now outweighed by the negatives', it added that owner Elon Musk - the world's richest person - had been using the service's influence to 'shape political discourse.'
The boycott means the The Guardian - which has more than 80 accounts and 27 million followers on X - will stop posting from its official editorial accounts on the platform. The main Guardian account on X now says: 'This account has been archived.'
Author Stephen King also left the platform, alongside, Jamie Lee Curtis, B Midler, and the British newspaper, The Guardian
'These people wouldn't last one day living the way right-leaning people live in this country right, where everything around you is controlled by the other side, the messages are uniformly against your worldview,' she said.
'Everything is against you,' she continued. 'They wouldn't last one day in our shoes.'
Kelly also recently ripped into Oprah Winfrey for taking $1 million from Kamala Harris' campaign.
'This is grossly unethical,' Kelly said, adding that 'the subject of the interview does not pay for the set/production costs (the interviewer does) and even more shocking when said costs are $1million, especially shady when it’s a presidential candidate.'
