Megyn Kelly spoke to The Daily Wire chief Ben Shapiro, who hosts The Ben Shapiro Show, on her Sirius XM program on Monday to discuss how Democrats and the media use the January 6 anniversary of the Capitol riot four years ago to smear President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters.

“We have to start with the fact that it’s January 6, and they are literally treating it on the left like it is 9/11. It is ridiculous. It’s got an actual function. It’s the day that the 2024 election will be officially certified. But it is more important to the corporate media the day that they will celebrate their favorite anniversary to smear all Trump supporters and again, to treat this day as though it does live in infamy, akin to that of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor,” the host said to Shapiro.

“What they’ve demonstrated over the course of the last several years is their complete inability to govern or to be in any way aligned with the agenda of the American people, and so all they’ve had for years – and this is true, going back to 2021 when Joe Biden gave that awful address in Philadelphia where he basically labeled everyone who is Republican, his political enemy and an enemy of the Republic – the only thing they can keep saying over and over is that Donald Trump is, in fact, an incipient dictator and authoritarian,” Shapiro began.

“He won the popular vote, and he won the Electoral College overwhelmingly. And so the sort of idea that he attempted a coup and that we narrowly averted the rising tyranny in the United States, that particular narrative is always stupid but, but it has died a horrible death at the hands of the American people, who, themselves, voted by a majority for Donald Trump in the last election… Democrats didn’t just lose the presidency. They also lost control of the Senate. They don’t have control of the House. And so what exactly is the thing that we are supposed to be commemorating on January 6?” Shapiro added.

“It’s similar to how they’ve they’ve run out of real examples of racism everywhere. So they have to make them up. You know, they’ve run out of examples to make Trump supporters look horrible. So they’ve got to exaggerate what happened on January 6 to make it into one of the riots that they did,” Kelly said.

“They’ve got to make it sound like the right. Those are the rioters, those the insurrectionists. Those are the ones who are truly a problem,” she added.