Fox News' Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVID BAUDER
Updated 1:21 PM CDT, September 14, 2025

Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade apologized on Sunday for advocating for the execution of mentally ill homeless people in a discussion on the network last week, saying his remark was “extremely callous.”

Kilmeade’s initial comment came on a “Fox & Friends” episode Wednesday and began getting widespread circulation online over the weekend. Kilmeade, a host of the morning show, was talking with co-hosts Lawrence Jones and Ainsley Earhardt about the Aug. 22 stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina.

A homeless and mentally ill man, Decarlos Brown Jr., was arrested for murder, and the case received extensive attention on Fox following the release of a security video of the stabbing.

Jones was talking on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday about public money spent on trying to help homeless people and suggested that those who didn’t accept services offered to them should be jailed.



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[Attilatheblond]

1. Not good enough! He showed his true mental unfitness to be loose in society

Needs mental health care in a supervised facility.

[Deuxcents]

2. And if he refuses?

[Attilatheblond]

5. If he is proven to be a danger to society he can have no say in the matter

We the People are generally not aware of how easily our rights can be taken, merely on the say so of certain 'accredited professionals'.

[underpants]

3. Here's the text of his 1/2 assed apology stuck in the middle

[chelsea0011]

4. Apology?

Sounds more like doubling down.

[blubunyip]

29. Used to be

we rarely saw homeless people in my town. Now you see them often sleeping in the bushes or begging. These are some sad people but they deserve help and hope and dignity. Anything else is totally inhumane. But Brian Kilmeade lacks humanity.

[COL Mustard]

36. He should be fired

Of course Fox will never do that, and even if they did, he'd get a job in the Administration.

[sarisataka]

6. I disagree

he apologized for being callous by making the lethal injection comment.

He did NOT apologize for saying they should be killed.

[RobinA]

11. It Doesn"t Matter

if he apologizes or not. That is like saying you want to murder your mother. There's just some things that decent people don't say, and to say them means you just aren't an OK person. Standing on stage and mocking a disabled person on camera is another.

[livetohike]

7. Now fire him. n/t

[twodogsbarking]

8. I apologize for saying you are an asshole and should be eaten by wild boars.

I'll be satisfied with you just being eaten by wild boars.

[Tribetime]

9. Why is he still employed

[SWBTATTReg]

10. His remark is "extremely callous"...

And not one remark associate along w/ his remark that was thrown up w/ his ignorant remark didn't suggest more outreach to help such persons, more resources to address the increasing homeless population, more resources to help the increasing numbers of those w/o insurance, etc.

We all know what the republicans/gop stand for, All ME and nothing for no one else. Nothing!

[Jilly_in_VA]

12. Kilmeade should be FIRED!

If Matt Dowd got fired for what he said about Charlie Kirk, which I thought was relatively innocuous (and also true), then Kelmeade should be bounced out on his azz for this one.

[C Moon]

13. These jackasses are making money hand over fist under trump.

This Fixed news bastard makes as much as $9 million a year w a net worth of $27 million. And what does he think of the less fortunate?: shoot them.

He can apologize all day and night, but we all know this is how they think.

[cstanleytech]

14. He should be fired but it's fox so he won't be.

[angrychair]

15. Killmeade is seriously demented

Guy is fucking twisted. There is no apology. He meant that shit.
What an asshole.

[usonian]

16. Here's what a previous Hitler thought of "The Aged and Infirm"

No Freudian slip. These creeps believe in eugenics and ethnic cleansing.



Mass Murder of the Aged & Infirm
http://learning-from-history.de/International/Posting/8662

[hadEnuf]

41. If this type of talk is not pure Nazism, I don't know what is.

n/t

[Wicked Blue]

17. What he probably means is that the homeless should be tried in kangaroo courts

and THEN executed.

[Quanto Magnus]

18. He's not sorry

he just knows it wasn't a good look and it trying to weasel out of it.

He should be fired.

[calimary]

30. Yep. THIS!

He did it cuz he had to. And took his own sweet time about it, also.

AND it took him til Sunday to “apologize” - for an offense committed the Wednesday before. Four days late!

What he should have done is: to jump in at the end of that same Wednesday’s show and offer an apology right then and there. Instead of four days later.

[Paladin]

19. FIRE his miserable ass. (nt)

[republianmushroom]

20. Seems like some thing a spokes person

for the American Gestapo would say. But it was Faux news.

[thought crime]

21. But don't call them fascists...

Breaking News: They are fascists.

[DrFunkenstein]

22. Quite Literally Psychopathic

Psychopathic traits include superficial charm, grandiosity, manipulation, pathological lying, lack of remorse or guilt, shallow emotions, callousness, and a lack of empathy.

How many of these traits fit Kilmeade? Other than his total lack of charm, I mean.

[Pompoy]

23. Wow, so it wasn't a brain fart? He meant to say what he said?

[WhatTheFlux]

24. New nickname: Kill 'em Kilmeade

[electric_blue68]

25. Oh. "Extremely callous"? How about a Muderous Comment, Bastard. You said it... you Own it!

[Randomthought]

26. Too little toolate

Manyofthrhomless are veterans you piece ofcrap!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. Fire his ass!!

[tulipsandroses]

28. He should be fired. Matthew Dowd was fired for simply pointing out that Kirk spread hate. This guy is advocating killing

people. Yet he gets to keep his job?? Its disgusting.
Did I not read something recently about the trump admin wanting to look at social media to see who says terrible things about Americans. Well here you go, live on tv. He is talking about Americans.

[tonekat]

31. Resign, You Ghoul! N/T

[creeksneakers2]

32. Why wasn't he fired?

[Justice Brandeis]

33. So that's it, huh?

A mealy-mouthed, staff written half-apology and we're all just expected to move on. No consequences?

[Rhiannon12866]

34. Video: Internet OUTRAGE After Fox Host Makes HORRIFIC Suggestion - Really American

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132288437

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

35. As a bonus, if we executed mentally ill homeless people, we'd probably save a lot ...

... of money in veterans' health expenses.

This would please Trump, Musk, Miller, etc.

[HarryM]

37. Fire his worthless ass.

Fire him and charge him with inciting murder.
If he was a Democrat, they would make sure that he, at the very least, resign.
This was not even an actual apology, it was a little aside.
It was not "extremely callous," it was criminal.
Fire him, sue him into poverty, and make him homeless.

[NewEnglandAutumn]

38. write them

demand he be fired

[NNadir]

39. In a sane and decent world, he would lose his job. It is a onerous reflection of our times that he hasn't.

[hadEnuf]

40. Fire his Nazi ass. No exceptions.

People are being fired outright from their jobs over comments about an extremist right-wing pod caster they made on-line. And not just fired from MSNBC either.

This is complete BS and Fox needs to be held accountable for fomenting violence.

[Aristus]

42. Someone should really tell him how many homeless people on the streets are veterans.

Or, because he supports Trump, does he not care about them, either?

[Skittles]

43. he looked like a gun was being held to his head as he "apologized"

and he QUALIFIED it - you know, like, maybe SOME homeless folk are somewhat less deserving of the death penalty

Kilmeade is a DISGUSTING POS.

[Hekate]

44. I note he still has a job

[LeftInTX]

46. Of course. It's Fox. They are mean and proud of being mean!

[LeftInTX]

45. And Gutlege or whatever his name is said that the Melissa Hortman's killing was not political violence.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20645218