'What up, my Nazi?' Fox News hosts under fire for 'shameful' segment

Fox News commentators Greg Gutfeld and Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, known mononymously as Kennedy, sparked outrage on social media after the two casually embraced the term "Nazi" during an on-air exchange Tuesday — prompting criticism for normalizing extremist language.

The segment’s flippant use of "Nazi" triggered a wave of backlash online, with users accusing the hosts of trivializing a term deeply connected to genocide.

“You know what? I've said this before, we need to learn from the Blacks," Gutfeld said during the segment.

He continued: "The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it. So from now on it’s: What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what's hanging, my Nazi?”

Kennedy responded with, “Nazi, please!”

“Thank God you did a hard ‘I’ there," Gutfield quipped.

Reacting to a clip showing the exchange, left-wing political commentator and streamer Hasan Piker wrote on the social platform X: "We've officially gotten to the point where Fox News commentators are comfortable calling themselves Nazis."

Historian Dr. Émile P. Torres wrote: "The normalization of Nazism. Happening in realtime."

Author James Surowiecki said: "I'd call this shameful, but what's the point? They have no shame."

Political commentator Fred Wellman wrote: "Just saying this is super racist doesn’t quite do it."

Writer Travon Free said:"It's crazy, I remember a decade ago, writing Fox News segments on The Daily Show, when they used to actually TRY to pretend not to be racist."

This is not the first time Gutfeld has made light of the Holocaust.

In 2023, Gutfeld faced similar backlash for saying on air that Jewish people survived Nazi concentration camps by being “useful.”

His remarks were strongly condemned by the Auschwitz Memorial Museum.

“While it is true that some Jews may have used their skills or usefulness to increase their chances of survival during the Holocaust, it is essential to contextualize this statement properly and understand that it does not represent the complex history of the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany,” the Auschwitz Memorial Museum said in a six-paragraph post on X at the time.

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