Megyn Kelly criticized ABC's “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir for displaying “egregious vanity” while covering the Los Angeles wildfires. Muir was exposed for wearing a yellow fireman's jacket cinched in the back with clothespins, presumably to achieve a more fitted appearance.
Kelly accused Muir of “wearing a fake firefighter's jacket” while reporting from the disaster area in Southern California.
“What we see in the close-up of his back that he shows us as he turns around to see what's behind him is clearly something he wasn't expecting to see on camera, and his clothespins. , pulling on his jacket and tightening it… so his waist would look smaller on camera,” Kelly said. on Thursday's episode of her SiriusXM podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
“This man's terrible vanity,” Kelly added. She gutted Muir for “posing as a firefighter” during a call from the scene.
“Now is not the time to dress up,” she said. “That's what I did when my little boys were in the single digits…It doesn't make the news when people are dying.”
“what are you doing?”
Kelly was in disbelief, even though she noticed that Muir had placed a clothespin on the back of his jacket.
“Yes, he's an actor who worries about his vanity and beauty in front of the camera. Don't ever think that David Muir's hips might be a little boxy,” she said.
The Post has reached out to ABC News for comment.
Muir was slammed on social media as “pathetic” and “narcissistic” for using a clamp to tighten his jacket.
“As you can see, it's behind me,” Muir said, turning and pointing to the charred rubble on his back.
When he looks behind him, he can clearly see the wooden clamps tightening his ill-fitting ABC News branded jacket and showing off the anchor's torso.
“Nice jacket bro. I'm glad you look nice and slim on the clothesline while our city burns down,” Jack Obsoun wrote X Captions for videos in posts.
Other users added their two cents, calling Muir “pathetic” and a “narcissist”.
Tightening clothes using clothespins is a standard TV styling operation performed in place of traditional, permanent tailoring.
Additional reporting by Shane Galvin
