Fox News Guest Appears Drunk On-Air (Video)

Slurred Words, Champagne, and Confusion: Ex-Intelligence Officer’s Fox Hit Goes Off the Rails

A live Fox News segment meant to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and Donald Trump’s 79th birthday turned into an unintentional spectacle Friday night—after a former intelligence official appeared to show up tipsy on-air, wine glass apparently in hand and words tumbling out of control.

Rebekah Koffler, a Russian-born former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst and self-proclaimed Trump loyalist, was brought on as a military expert to comment on the day’s parade in Washington, D.C.—but what viewers got instead was something more fit for a blooper reel than a primetime broadcast.

“I’m soooo excited! This is incredible,” Koffler said, slurring her words and rocking back and forth as she mistook host Lawrence Jones for a completely different Fox reporter. “The United States is… is BACK!” she added, waving her arms dramatically.

But the performance quickly spiraled. Viewers watched as she thanked military families for “literally” sacrificing their lives—before launching into a garbled diatribe against “the… uh… administrative states” and their mismanagement of “foreign wars… most of the time… for a quarter-century.”

The live feed was abruptly cut, and Fox tossed to commercial.

Waving Flags and Waving Wine Bottles

Just hours before her primetime meltdown, Koffler had posted—and then deleted—a photo on X (formerly Twitter) of a bottle of sparkling wine with the caption:

“Well @POTUS is apparently on my airtime! My hit is moved to 8:20 – 8:30 pm depending on how long #Trump takes. I’m honored. Refilling my #champagne glass while waiting for my hit!”

While Koffler insists the deleted post meant nothing, viewers were quick to connect the dots.

“She looked half a bottle in and three questions out of her depth,” one social media user wrote.

Damage Control, the Koffler Way

When contacted for comment, Koffler doubled down, calling the backlash “typical political warfare.”

“I’m frequently attacked because I speak the truth on various issues,” she wrote in an email. “Since the ill-wishers cannot beat me in a candid debate on merit… they started making stuff up.”

But the footage of the segment—which Fox has not commented on—is damning enough that even some of the network’s own viewers raised eyebrows. At one point, Koffler seemed to refer to Trump as “Donarl Jane Tramp,” before the interview was swiftly cut short.

Trump’s Parade Overshadowed

The chaotic segment added an unintended layer of controversy to what was supposed to be a carefully orchestrated patriotic display. Trump’s massive military parade—featuring over 6,000 troops, tanks, and aircraft—was lightly attended, partly due to poor weather.

Still, the president tried to use the event to burnish his image as a defender of the military, even leading a re-enlistment ceremony on the National Mall.

But for many viewers, it was Koffler—not the tanks or Trump—who stole the show, though not for the reasons Fox intended.

“If this is the new face of military punditry, we’re in trouble,” one commenter wrote. “Fox News brought on a champagne-sipping conspiracy theorist who couldn’t even pronounce Trump’s name.”

Whether Koffler will be invited back remains unclear—but her slurred salute to “Donarl Tramp” may go down as one of the most bizarre Fox hits of the year.