Former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump made a final appearance this election cycle in Pittsburgh, with "strong women" being the underlying theme of the night. Trump had surrogates Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee-Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard, as well as a surprise appearance by journalist and podcast host Megyn Kelly. Kelly and Trump have undergone quite a transformation in their fraught relationship over a question Kelly asked then-candidate Trump in 2016 to sit-down interviews and now an endorsement of his presidency. 

Kelly's remarks were brief but pointed as to her reason for endorsing and voting for President Donald Trump: Because he will stand for women and men. Kelly began by referring to Kamala Harris surrogate Mark Cuban's stupid remarks about how Trump is afraid of strong women. After relating a different story about proving Cuban wrong during an interview, Kelly said, "Here I am, at a Trump rally, a strong intelligent woman to prove Mark Cuban wrong again."

.@megynkelly speaks at President Trump's rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:

"He got mocked by the Left for saying he'll be a protector of women. He WILL be a protector of women — and it's why I'm voting for him." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/kKg6YWwuev

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 5, 2024

Kelly continued:

I do want to tell you the main reasons I am voting for Donald Trump. Number One: immigration. He mentioned it, and people like Laken Riley. I will be thinking about her tomorrow all day. Twenty-two years old, killed in Georgia, a young nursing student, by an illegal. I'll be thinking about Jocelyn Nungaray, 12-years-old, in Texas, murdered by two Venezuelan illegals. President Trump closed the border, Kamala Harris opened it by choice, it wasn't accidental. She said it would be humane, that's what she and her boss believed. Tell it to Laken Riley's family. There was nothing humane about it. He closed it, they opened it, it was an intentional choice and there's no reason not to believe they won't do it again.

Kelly articulated her second reason for her endorsement of Trump: he will remove boys from girl's sports. Kelly has used her significant platform to speak out against the transgender agenda, and the infiltration of biological boys and men into women's and girl's sports, and women's spaces. As she usually is, Kelly was most passionate in driving this point home.

The boys should not be in the girl's sports! [Huge cheers]. 

The boys should not be in the girl's bathroom! The boys should not be in the girl's locker rooms. Payton McNabb, North Carolina sophomore in high school, slammed so hard in the face by a volleyball hit at her by a boy pretending to be a girl. She suffered traumatic brain injury and permanent paralysis. Kamala Harris says to her "Be kind, suck it up, and that's what's right." Why do our girls have to face brain damage in order to be kind to boys who want to invade their sports?

Kelly then lambasted Vice President and selected Democrat nominee Kamala Harris for her lies and backtracking on her formerly vocal support of men in women's prisons.

And by the way, they are going into the women's prisons. She [Harris] changed the law in California to make sure the taxpayers would pay for their sex change operations. She was not just following the law, she changed the law. President Trump will stop it. He got... he got mocked by the Left for saying he will be a protector of women. He will be a protector of women and it's why I'm voting for him! He will close the border, he will keep the boys out of girl's sports and where they don't belong. 

The hallmark of Kelly's effusive statement was her tying in the fact that in order to have and appreciate strong women, we must honor and encourage strong men. These words received the greatest amount of applause. 

And you know what else, one more thing: he'll look out for our boys too. Our forgotten boys and forgotten men. Guys like you! 

[Kelly pointed behind her into the men in hard hats]

 Guys like these guys who've got the calluses on their hands. Who work for a living with the beards, and the tats, who maybe have a beer after work and don't want to be judged by people like Oprah and Beyonce who will never have to suffer the consequences of her disastrous economic policies. These guys get it. He gets it. President Trump gets it. He will not look at our boys like they're second-class citizens.

Kelly turned her attention to the other strong women in the crowd.

And ladies out there who want a bit of "girl power" in this election. Let me tell you something: How can you win when the sons and the husbands and the brothers you love are losing? It's not a win. We care, young women and older, about the lives of our children, the safety of our children. And we need not get so obsessed with what happens when they're in the womb that we forget about taking care of them once we're here, and they're here, and they're loved.

Kelly's final shot was to rip a new one into the Left's version of "new masculinity," especially as exemplified in Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. She called out the legacy media for their wholesale tactic of ignoring the story of Emhoff's past abuses of women.

Last point, what I don't want, what I don't think you want is the Left's version of masculinity. Did you see that ad they did about Trump voters trying to encourage women to lie to their husband so they could vote for her instead of Trump? That's their version of what marriage looks like. An overbearing husband, who bullies his wife into saying she voted one way, as opposed to an honest, open relationship--oh, wait, I"m talking about Kamala and Doug. Sorry... where was that story in the news? Where was that story? I don't remember a single media person, not one, who sat with him, asked him about the abuse allegations against him by a successful, professional attorney who has great details, who has receipts, who has witnesses. No one even asked about it. 

Kelly wrapped her remarks by honoring our strong American men, and honoring our former president and hopefully future president who embodies that strength.

I'm not into their version of toxic masculinity, or new masculinity, I prefer the old version. As do all of you. And I prefer a president who understands how to be strong and how to fight. I hope all of you do what I did last week. Vote Trump and get 10 friends to vote Trump too!

CNN's Dana Bash looked none too pleased when her producers informed her that Kelly was slated to speak at the Trump rally, referring to her as, "Megyn Kelly of the blood coming out of wherever, fame. Interesting turn of events..." as she angrily shuffled her faux news pages.

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Dana Bash is not handling @megynkelly speaking at Trump’s rally tonight very well😂😂😅

MEOW!pic.twitter.com/bQKXytO6IN

— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) November 4, 2024

Way to show your claws, Dana. Maybe if she did actual journalism like Megyn Kelly she might be worthy of a better platform than the low-rent CNN.