Megyn Kelly had a rare laugh at the spectacle of celebrity outrage when she reacted to Broadway legend Patti LuPone’s latest theatrical turn into political commentary on her show. Kelly pointed out how Hollywood’s polished drama queens keep turning real policy debates into rehearsed monologues, and she didn’t shy away from calling out LuPone’s excesses on air.

Patti LuPone famously told ABC’s The View that she “didn’t see a difference” between America’s Christian right and the Taliban, a remark that was as wildly ignorant as it was inflammatory. That on?air comparison sparked predictable backlash because it conflated peaceful religious Americans with an extremist regime that violently suppresses women and dissent.

Let’s be honest: when celebrities equate mainstream conservative faith with foreign terror groups, they aren’t debating—they’re performing. That performance plays well in liberal cocktail circles and on late?night applause lines, but it insults millions of decent Americans who believe in faith, family, and the rule of law. No amount of stage training makes this kind of smear any less reckless.

Megyn Kelly’s mockery of the dramatic delivery and sanctimonious tone was more than snickering — it was a necessary bit of pinch?the?nose realism. Kelly has made a career of refusing the elite’s haughty moral lectures, and when she highlights how celebrities like LuPone weaponize theatrics instead of facts, she’s doing the country a favor.

This is not an isolated stunt. Hollywood’s chorus of anti?ICE cant and performative activism has become part of a broader entertainment industry habit: substitute virtue signaling for public policy. Stars use their platforms to grandstand about immigration and enforcement while offering no workable solutions, and the public notices when rhetoric replaces responsibility.

Americans who work, pay taxes, and obey the law don’t need lecture tours from actresses in limousines about how their beliefs are equivalent to barbarism. We want secure borders, humane enforcement, and lawmakers who actually compromise to fix a broken system — not moral panic from people who couldn’t manage a Congressional hearing. It’s time to stop letting celebrity sermonizing drown out sober debate.

So here’s a message for the elites on the coasts: enough with the staged indignation. Hardworking patriots aren’t fooled by theatrical “I object” moments dressed up as moral courage. If Patti LuPone and her peers want to help, they should use their resources to build solutions — not cheapen real suffering with careless comparisons. America deserves better than celebrity theater masquerading as policy.