Gaines stood her ground while adopting a largely magnanimous tone toward Trump, whose "blasphemous" post blew up into controversy.

“They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them,” Trump said.

Her remark came after Trump publicly singled her and three other high-profile conservative pundits out in a lengthy Truth Social post.

Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, reported on Monday that she had a "very productive conversation" with podcast host Candace Owens.

"People are going to try to make you fixate on a particular quote or a particular line to make you think that there was something hidden ..."

"Ms Owens’ campaign of defamation was plainly designed to harass and cause pain to us and our families and to garner attention ..."

"No one’s allowed to say that foreign government is Israel, because we’ve been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty."

Owens has claimed for years that Mrs. Macron was born a gay man but underwent surgery to live life as a woman.

"Whatever your motives, I cannot think of anyone in public life engendering as much suspicion of Jews, Zionism, and Israel as are you."

A controversy erupted on conservative X over the past week involving the use of the phrase "Christ is king."