Ex-supporter in blistering takedown of ‘daddy’ Trump: ‘We’re over the antics’

By Tom Wrobleski | wrobleski@siadvance.comA former supporter of President Donald Trump has come down hard on the president and the Republican Party in the wake of the shellacking absorbed by the GOP in the midterm elections. “Such a missed opportunity,” Megyn Kelly said on her talk radio program. “It’s such a missed opportunity by this president who had the world in his hands, who had so many of us believing in him.” .@MegynKelly: "The choice now for Republicans is to reflect, rebuild, and reinvent - in the image of no man. They're going to have to learn to win without DADDY on the ballot, and to find their ethical center..." https://t.co/Qy6yEQ29dZ— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) November 4, 2026 The former Fox News personality then laid into the president directly, saying, “We’re no longer interested in the Trump show. We’re over the antics, the grift, the making money off of the backs of the American people who just wanted you to help them.”Kelly, who endorsed Trump in 2024, continued by throwing down a challenge to Republicans, who saw the Democrats grab control of both houses of Congress on Tuesday.“The choice now for Republicans is to reflect, rebuild and reinvent in the image of no man,” said Kelly, who later fell out with the president. “They’re going to have to learn how to win without Daddy on the ballot and to find their ethical center and not just be puppets of Trump’s.”Democrats flipped red seats all across the country in gaining majorities in the House and Senate on Tuesday. Trump, who urged voters to pretend that he was on the ballot this year, is being blamed for the rout, with voters dissatisfied over the cost of living, the Iran war and the fact that Trump has increased his personal wealth while in the White House. Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday said that the war was the reason that Republicans were voted out of power in Congress. A 1987 graduate of Fordham University's College at Lincoln Center, Tom began working at the Staten Island Advance in 1995. The native Staten Islander started his career at the Advance as a community board...