Megyn Kelly Shares Donald Trump Concerns

Megyn Kelly has expressed concern that Donald Trump won't appear on her show "anytime soon," saying he has recently "gone on the attack" against her.

The media personality and the former president have had a contentious relationship over the years but in 2023, Trump agreed to an interview with Kelly. The exclusive interview aired live during a special edition of The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly's program on SiriusXM, on September 14. During the hour-long sit-down, Kelly praised him for how he answered her question during the debate nearly a decade prior.

The former Fox News host has continued to defend Trump ever since, but it hasn't been reciprocated; a few days after the interview, Trump attacked her at a rally in Iowa.

Appearing on the Newsmax show Eric Bolling The Balance, Kelly told the host why she doesn't think he will plan to come on her show again soon.

Newsweek emailed spokespeople for Kelly and Trump for comment on Friday.

"I know you've interviewed him before quite a bit. Have you had him on recently? Would you like to have him on again?" Bolling asked her during his show.

"So I had him on in September and I don't know that he loved that interview," she explained. "There was a contentious part about the criminal cases, and there were lovely parts too, you know, but Trump, he kind of wants it all to be lovely. He doesn't want any contention, even though that works, you know, in terms of getting eyeballs to the interview, which is what he really likes.

"And since then he, I don't know, he's kind of gone on the attack against me a couple times publicly. He's still really mad about that debate question, so not sure he's gonna come on anytime soon."

"Still?" questioned Bolling.

"I think so," replied Kelly. "He brings it up a lot."

"He does have a long memory when it comes to those things," Bolling responded.

Trump revived his feud with Kelly at a rally in Georgia in March, claiming she was "making a career" by "pretending" to like him. The Republican frontrunner brought up the first GOP presidential debate in 2015. Kelly had hosted the event at the time, having started it off by questioning him on how he treated women.

"Megyn Kelly. May she rest in peace," Trump said at the rally, which elicited laughter from the crowd. "She's sort of making a career by pretending she likes me."

Kelly and Trump have a long history, and she notably quizzed the former president about his history of misogynistic comments during a 2015 Republican debate, saying: "You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals."

The line of questioning prompted attacks from Trump, who told CNN that "you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever." Kelly was subsequently on the receiving end of a nine-month campaign of attacks from Trump and his supporters. In 2019, she described this period as a "scary time."

In July 2023, it seemed things had cooled down, as Kelly said she and Trump were on great terms. Kelly explained that they met one-on-one during a Turning Point USA conference, years after he had described her as a "bimbo" and "crazy."

"It was, frankly great to see him," she said. "All that nonsense between us is under the bridge."

However, after the former president sat down for the interview in September, he quickly resumed his attacks on Kelly, accusing her of asking "nasty" questions.

"She just, you know, boy, she became nastier all of a sudden. She was pretty nasty, didn't ya think? Anybody that watched it?" Trump asked during a campaign rally in Iowa.