Matt Walsh and Megyn Kelly criticize Navy for using drag queen sailor in recruitment.

Matt Walsh and Megyn Kelly Slam U.S. Navy for Using Drag Queen Sailor as “Digital Ambassador”

Meet Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley

Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley acted as a “digital ambassador” for the U.S. Navy from October 2022 to March 2023 as part of a program “designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates.”

The Controversy

During “The Matt Walsh Show” podcast on Wednesday, the host said the only pitch that will work to recruit young men to fight for the country and enlist in their military branch is appealing to “masculine energy” not “feminine.” The U.S. Navy hired an active-duty drag queen to be the face of their recruitment drive. Walsh joked that the sailor’s “terrifying our enemies.”

Appealing to Masculinity

The Daily Wire host said throughout history, the number one focus for the military has been “effectively killing the bad guys, killing the enemy.” He said that has been achieved by “being a unit … suppressing your individual priorities and desires,” and this drag queen recruiter is totally opposite of that.

“This not going to reverse that [recruitment] problem. It’s just not going to,” Walsh said. “There really is no way to recruit consistently and reliably and keep the military strong without appealing to masculinity. They could try all these other ways of recruiting. None of it works. The only thing that consistently works is by trying to appeal to men, to young men, to appeal to their sense of duty, their sense of honor, their sense of patriotism.”

Megyn Kelly’s Take

On Wednesday, the Sirius XM “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast host shared similar comments about the situation and asked flat out, “Where’s our men?” She said the Navy missed its recruitment goal in 2022 and is reportedly expected to miss it by 6,000 in 2023.

“I would much rather have a bada** actual woman defending the country or a regular man, that [drag queen sailor] I don’t want defending me,” the former Fox News host said. “I miss our men. I quote him everyday, Christian Walker, ‘bring our men back.’ Where are our men? Where are they?”

The Bottom Line

“This is not the way to improve the Navy’s ridiculous recruiting effort. Fail,” Kelly continued. “They are already way behind. … You don’t understand who you’re trying to recruit.” Later, Kelly explained that there’s an “unusually high” percentage of those in the trans community who are suffering from “very disturbed thinking” and “issues” and that’s not the kind of “people we want to recruit and give guns to.”

Takeaway

The controversy surrounding the U.S. Navy’s decision to use a drag queen sailor as a “digital ambassador” has sparked outrage from Matt Walsh and Megyn Kelly. Both hosts believe that the Navy’s recruitment efforts should focus on appealing to masculinity and traditional values, rather than trying to appeal to a broader audience.