Fox News Host Laura Ingraham in Hot Water: Her Brother Calls Her Out for ‘Monstrous’ Mockery of Greta Thunberg—What’s Next?

The Fox News host likened the 16-year-old climate activist to a character in a horror movie about a cult of children

Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks Monday at the UN Climate Action Summit.ILLUSTRATION: Getty Images

Fox News apologized Monday for airing what it described as a “disgraceful” segment in which Daily Wire host Michael Knowles called 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has Asperger’s syndrome, a “mentally ill Swedish child” after she delivered a moving speech at the United Nations.

But that didn’t stop Fox New’s Laura Ingraham from mocking Thunberg on her show, “The Ingraham Angle,” later that same day:

The president’s Twitter account also got in, with apparent sarcasm, on the act:

Ingraham’s brother was not OK with any of it.

“Clearly my sister’s paycheck is more important than the world her three adopted kids will inherit. I can no longer apologize for a sibling who I no longer recognize,” Curtis Ingraham reportedly wrote on Twitterfollowing the segment. “I can and will continue to call out the monstrous behavior and the bully commentary born out of anger.”

This dynamic is nothing new. Curtis Ingraham has referred to his sister — the two have been described as estranged — as a monster before, following her comments about Parkland survivor David Hogg, who’d called for an advertiser boycott of the Ingraham show on Fox. Curtis Ingraham also issued an apology to LeBron James after Laura Ingraham told the NBA star to “shut up and dribble.”

In an interview with the Daily Beast last year about the thoughts he shares toward his sister on social media, Curtis opened up about his feelings.

“She’s very smart, she’s well spoken, but her emotional heart is just kind of dead,” he said. “And you see it in her face when you see her on TV. She’s ready to destroy. She does not listen to understand — she listens to respond. And her response is always an attack.”

Through the day Tuesday, Twitterin particular was abuzz: