Megyn Kelly slams ABC News’ David Muir for ‘playing dress up’ while covering LA fires: ‘The abject vanity of this man’

Megyn Kelly criticized ABC’s “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir for his display of “abject vanity” while covering the wildfires in Los Angeles where he was pilloried for wearing a yellow firefighter jacket that was cinched at the back with clothespins, presumably to achieve a more fitted appearance.

Kelly blasted Muir for “wearing a fake fireman’s jacket” while doing an on-location report from devastated areas in Southern California.

“What you’re seeing on the close up as he turns to reference the scene behind him and shows us his back, which clearly he wasn’t anticipating would make it on cam, his clothes pins, pulling his jacket in, cinching it…so that his waist looks more svelte on camera,” Kelly said during Thursday’s episode of her SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

“The abject vanity of this man,” Kelly added. She eviscerated Muir for “pretending to be a fireman” while reporting from the scene.

“This is not dress up time,” she said. “That’s something that my little boys did when they were still in the single digits…not on the news when people are dying.”

“What are you doing?”

Kelly seemed incredulous while noting that Muir put a clothespin on the back of his jacket.

“Yes, he’s an actor who’s worried about his own vanity and beauty on camera. God forbid you think David Muir might be a little boxy in the waist,” she said.

The Post has sought comment from ABC News.

Muir was roasted on social media as “pathetic” and “narcissistic” for using the clamps to cinch his jacket.

“As you can see here behind me,” Muir says as he turns to point to charred rubble behind his back.

As he looks behind him, a wooden clamp, which tightens the ill-fitting ABC News-branded jacket and shows off the anchor’s torso, is clearly visible.

“Nice Jacket Bro. Glad you look nice and svelte with those clothes line pegs, while our city burns to the ground,” Jack Obsourne wrote in a caption to the video in an X post.

Other users added their two cents — calling Muir “pathetic,” “narcissistic” and a litany of other insults.

Using clothespins to cinch clothes is a standard television styling maneuver done in lieu of more traditional and permanent tailoring.

Additional reporting by Shane Galvin