Podcaster Megyn Kelly said she doesn’t expect Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to appear on her show “any time soon” after last year’s controversial sit-in.
“I had him [Trump] Kelly told Newsmax’s Eric Bolling on Thursday.
“There were some controversial parts of the criminal case, and some nice parts, but Trump seems to want everything to be nice.”
The September interview was the first time in seven years that a former president has interviewed the former Fox and NBC anchor and current host of the SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
Kelly relentlessly questioned Trump, claiming he made Anthony Fauci a star during the coronavirus pandemic.
“He doesn’t want any conflict, even though it works, in terms of drawing attention to the interview. That’s what he really likes,” Kelly told Boling. mediaite.
Kelly and Trump have had a tepid relationship since August 2015, when they infamously clashed during the first Republican debate of the 2016 campaign.
The then-Fox News star asked him to address issues surrounding his past misogynistic comments.
Specifically, Kelly asked about President Trump calling women he hates “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, disgusting animals.”
Appalled by the question, Mr. Trump raged against her for months, then skipped a Fox News debate co-hosted by Mr. Kelly.
Kelly told Boling that Trump still references the debate question “often.”
“He has a long memory for those things,” Bowling replied.
Since then, Kelly and Trump have reportedly mended fences.
Kelly has continued to voice support for Trump, including when he defended Trump’s rant that immigrants “taint the blood” of America.
Trump, meanwhile, has “launched several public attacks against me,” Kelly said.
Kelly did not mention the specific incident in which he was verbally abused by Trump during the Newsmax segment, but Trump said Kelly asked him a “mean” question during a campaign speech shortly after the September interview. criticized.
“Don’t you think she was pretty mean? Did any of you see that?” Trump told his supporters in Iowa. “She suddenly became mean.”
A few months later, before Kelly moderated the fourth Republican primary debate (which Trump was absent from, along with the first three), he told the Post: It’s the place he hates the most, but it’s a good place.”
After the debate, President Trump branded Kelly the event’s “biggest loser.”
