It’s been a long time coming, but it appears former Fox News host Megyn Kelly has written off the MAGA movement entirely.

After initially butting heads with the then-candidate ahead of the 2016 election, Kelly has been a frequent defender of the president throughout his years in office.

As with some other fairweather supporters, however, she seems to have completely given up on the president now that the mission in Iran looks a little more complicated.

The Hill covered her latest remarks:

“MAGA is not what it was. MAGA is now this very, very small group of Trump diehard loyalists who have to love Mark Levin,” Kelly said on “Hodgetwins Podcast.” “And so that’s, by definition, an increasingly tiny group.”

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She later added, “It’s a small group. So, I guess I’ve been surprised to see how quickly it’s shrunk down to something less formidable, by far, than it used to be.”

Kelly, a former Fox News host who now has her own show on SiriusXM, has criticized Trump amid the war with Iran. During the interview, she slammed those in the MAGA movement who supported the conflict despite Trump promising on the campaign trail not to drag the country into another overseas war. 

“That was not a small thing, that was not a throwaway line,” she said. “That was a massive part of his campaigning and his promising … Those people, on a dime, were like, ‘Yes, we’re pro-war with Iran. Yes, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.’”

Kelly was never an all-out Trump supporter, but her rapid shift in tone over the past few months has nevertheless been noteworthy.

And it’s no surprise she brought up her feud with Levin, which has involved her liberal use of childish taunts and name-calling aimed at the venerable radio host and author.

Here’s just one example of her social media antics:

And Levin had something to say about her most recent outburst:

Others brought the receipts to prove his claim:

RealClearPolitics also covered Kelly’s remarks about a supposedly dwindling MAGA base:

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Kelly primarily blamed the “Israel lobby” for the defeat of Republican Congressman Thomas Massie by a Trump-backed primary challenger, and said: “I’m sorry to see it that way, but it’s tough to argue” with the idea that Trump is now influenced by Israel. 

“And it’s not American Jews,” she said. “I’m with the neocons on the protection of American Jews. I don’t want to see American Jewish citizens harassed or bullied.”

“This is something different entirely. This is about Israel,” she said. “That’s a foreign country. I don’t care about them. I care about my country. I don’t care about Israel.”

KELLY: I think that it was the Israel lobby that got Thomas Massie defeated, and I think the voters of Kentucky were probably moved by the massive ad campaign that was unleashed against them.

The Israel crowd moved in — AIPAC and the Republican Jewish Coalition and Miriam Adelson, all these big Jewish billionaires who were not keeping it secret that they were funneling money into this campaign — creating ads that made Thomas Massie look like a sex pest, right? That made him look like he was against Trump on virtually everything, whereas he voted with Trump, I think, 91% of the time.

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