Piers Morgan Targets Shapiro as Iran War Backlash Grows

On “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Piers Morgan and Megyn Kelly took aim at Ben Shapiro as his audience and business appear to weaken, while Kelly criticized the Trump administration’s war with Iran amid polling showing rising opposition—specifically including oppo

The conversation started with Iran and quickly turned into a spotlight on Ben Shapiro’s shrinking reach.

Megyn Kelly joined Piers Morgan on a new episode of “Piers Morgan Uncensored. ” released Monday. and slammed the Trump administration’s war with Iran. Her argument hinged on Americans’ growing disapproval. as she cited public polling and framed the administration’s posture as moving further into the unknown.

Kelly said the perceived situation around Iran has shifted from “radical to extremely radical. ” adding that a “group of people” believes they “don’t have to bargain with us at all.” She described it as a dynamic where the “pain” people on one side are enduring appears worse to them than what the United States is experiencing. which she said makes it more likely Washington will “bend the knee.”.

Kelly tied that to polling figures she said show the scale of resistance at home: she pointed to “70 percent of the American populace” not liking the war and said that opposition rises “when you ask who is opposed to ground troops,” putting it in “the 90s.”

She also named her public adversary, Fox host Mark Levin, saying he wants the U.S. to escalate. Kelly said Levin would like the administration to send “boots on the ground. ” and she referenced “aircraft carriers over in the Strait of Hormuz patrolling it forever.” Then she put Levin’s position into a political frame: she said Levin is part of “a growingly small cabal. ” and that President Trump understands it’s “a very small group.”.

Kelly added that Trump keeps telling viewers to “watch Mark Levin’s show” and that “Mark Levin defines who’s MAGA and who’s not,” before she argued that Trump’s own view of the movement’s size appears to conflict with that message.

From there, Morgan pivoted—using Kelly’s Levin mention as a doorway to argue that Ben Shapiro is falling out of the spotlight.

Morgan told Kelly that Shapiro has “gone very quiet,” and he linked the silence to what he said is damage to Shapiro’s business. He argued that Shapiro’s media operation is getting “seriously damaged” and that people are “running away from watching his show.”

Morgan also said Shapiro’s narrative has been “proven” to be “incredibly unsuccessful,” and he claimed it is working “the exact opposite” of what Shapiro had assured audiences would happen.

Morgan’s remarks sat alongside a set of recent figures raised in the discussion. Shapiro founded The Daily Wire in 2015. and the outlet laid off 13 percent of its staff in the first few months of 2026. Morgan also referenced Shapiro’s personal YouTube channel as losing an estimated 30,000 followers in the last 30 days.

All of it was folded into Morgan’s broader point that the decline isn’t just something happening in private—it shows up publicly in audience behavior, and it changes how aggressively Shapiro can argue his case.

The episode ended up stitching together two very different battlegrounds: a war Kelly says is running into widening opposition, and a conservative media ecosystem Morgan says is losing momentum as Shapiro’s message meets real-world resistance.

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