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Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly blasted President Donald Trump for threatening to end Iran's civilization despite saying she would vote for Republicans even if he dropped a nuclear bomb.

"I am sick of this," Kelly said a day after Trump threatened Iran's civilian population. "Can he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the president, 3D chess! Just shut up... shut up about that... You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We're talking about civilians just casually in a social media post."

During an appearance on MS NOW on Wednesday morning, noted historian Douglas Brinkley expressed surprise that Vice President JD Vance has chosen to ally himself so closely with Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán as he seeks re-election.

While the US was prepping for a massive escalation of the war in Iran, which was averted at the last moment after Pakistan brokered a two-week ceasefire that heavily favors Iran, Vance was taking part in a MAGA-style rally for the Hungarian prime minister who is fighting an uphill battle to hang on to his job.

MAGA host Gina Loudon said she found it "very upsetting" after Democrat Emily Gregory defeated a Trump-endorsed candidate in the district where the president's Mar-a-Lago home is located.

During a discussion about a special election to fill former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) seat in Georgia, Loudon said she couldn't shake off Gregory's win in Florida.

If the Pakistan-brokered Iran ceasefire had not been announced shortly before Donald Trump’s deadline that included a threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would have been confronted by a revolt inside the Pentagon, according to new reporting.

That is according to MS NOW’s David Rohde, who told “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire that a handful of Pentagon lawyers were committed to refusing to approve some of the targets the White House wanted to destroy.

Fox News host Lawrence Jones pointed out that Iran achieved a ceasefire without giving in to many of President Donald Trump's demands.

"You said it perfectly, talking about the Iranian demands," Jones told Ainsley Earhardt on Wednesday. "All of them, all 10 of them, are non-starters for the United States."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insulted and cut off ABC News reporter Luis Martinez during a press briefing on Wednesday morning after the Senior Pentagon journalist put Gen. Dan Caine on the spot with a probing question about the Iran war.

After earlier calling another reporter “rude” for attempting to ask a question during the press availability, Hegseth broke from his usual habit of calling on friendly reporters from conservative outlets to allow Martinez to ask the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about the Iran ceasefire.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth snapped at a journalist Wednesday during a Pentagon press briefing after being asked about potential violations to the two-week tentative ceasefire agreement reached between the United States and Iran.

Responding to a question about Iran continuing to launch strikes Wednesday after having agreed to the tentative two-week ceasefire agreement, Hegseth said that he still believed the ceasefire would “hold.” A journalist then shouted out a question regarding the alleged Iranian strikes.

According to the panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” if Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement with Iran holds, the US still came out as a loser after the US launched the unprovoked war.

According to “Morning Joe” regular Mike Barnicle, there should be no doubt that Iran may have lost militarily, but now holds a stronger hand than before the war began.

Donald Trump’s last-minute ceasefire deal with the leadership of Iran was greeted with a great deal of skepticism on MS NOW on Wednesday morning with co-host Jonathan Lemire astounded by concessions the normally combative president agreed to.

On “Morning Joe,” the ten-point agreement brokered by Pakistan was broken down point by point by a panel of diplomatic experts, but it was Lemire who pointed out near the end that Iran came out ahead in the deal with regard to the Strait of Hormuz blockade with Iran essentially maintaining control.

President Donald Trump's Iran strategy has been such a disaster, said MS NOW's Jen Psaki on Tuesday's edition of "The Briefing," that it even has far-right pundits saying the exact thing about the military that, just a few months ago, Democratic lawmakers enraged the Trump administration by saying.

"After all that bluster, after all that maximalist language and reprehensible threats of genocide, after all that, where does this leave us?" said Psaki. "I mean, gas prices are at their highest levels in years, with the national average now sitting at $4.14 a gallon, according to AAA. Trump has destroyed America's already-fractured relationship with our closest allies, threatening the future of the NATO alliance. America has lost any moral authority on the question of war crimes and whether we can expect other countries to adhere to the Geneva Conventions, as Trump ignores them. He's risked the prestige of America's military, treating them like a bunch of toy soldiers."

President Donald Trump's threats to commit war crimes and genocide against the people of Iran, only to back down at the last second and agree to a deal that gives Iran more leverage than they had when the war started in the first place, has been a disaster, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told CNN's Erin Burnett on Tuesday evening.

In fact, he said, it merits serious consideration of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.

President Donald Trump just handed the Iranian regime a massive "strategic victory" after retreating from his previous threats, according to one expert.

Trump announced a two-week ceasefire to the more than five-week-old war in Iran on Truth Social on Tuesday. The announcement came about one hour before Trump's self-imposed deadline for a deal to be reached, and just a few hours after he threatened to destroy the Iranian civilization in a separate Truth Social post.