Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News anchor, made sharp comments about Donald Trump during a recent appearance on the Hodgetwins Podcast. She criticized Trump for attacking former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent, who remarried fairly quickly after losing his wife in 2019. Trump had said he was “not a fan” of Kent and suggested the remarriage was somehow wrong.
According to Huffpost, Kelly called this out as hypocrisy, given Trump’s own personal history. “Talk about a glass house!” she said. “I mean, Trump has cheated on every wife he’s had. I mean, he met Marla Maples while he was still married to the mother of his children, Ivana. It was all over the New York papers… like he was proud of the affair!”
Kelly also brought up a serious old accusation, telling the Hodge brothers, “And by the way, Ivana, his first wife, accused him of raping her”, an allegation the late Ivana Trump later took back. The comment quickly grabbed attention and reignited a decades-old controversy that many thought had been put to rest.
Ivana Trump’s rape accusation against Donald Trump has a long and complicated history
In a sworn deposition during their 1990 divorce, Ivana Trump described a violent sexual encounter with Trump that she said happened after he went through a painful scalp reduction surgery. The surgery was reportedly done to address baldness, and Trump was said to have been in significant pain and anger afterward.
Although she used the word “rape” under oath, she walked back the claim after it appeared in the 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. In a statement provided by Trump’s lawyers, she said she “felt violated” but did not “want [her] words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”
When the allegation came up again during Trump’s first presidential run in 2015, Ivana dismissed it as “totally without merit.” Kelly was careful to present the claim as unconfirmed, saying, “I don’t know whether that’s true or not, but just saying, clearly not a great relationship there.” Trump has long and firmly denied the allegation, and it has never been proven in any court of law.
It is worth noting that Ivana Trump, who passed away in July 2022, had over the years built a relatively cordial public relationship with her ex-husband after their divorce. She even publicly supported Donald Trump’s political career at various points, which made the resurfacing of the old accusation all the more complicated for those trying to assess its weight.
Melania Trump has also weighed in on rumors about her marriage in the past. “It is not a concern and focus of mine,” she said during an October 2025 interview on Good Morning America. “I’m a mother and a first lady and I have much more important things to think about and to do. I know people like to speculate and the media like to speculate about our marriage.”
This latest controversy comes at a difficult time for Trump, whose approval rating has been dropping to new lows in recent months. Kelly’s comments drew a strong reaction online, with many people expressing outrage and surprise. Trump’s critics have long accused him of being unfaithful in his marriages, and Kelly’s remarks added more fuel to that ongoing conversation.
Trump’s supporters, on the other hand, argue that Kelly is simply trying to stir up trouble and that the old accusations have already been addressed and retracted. The episode highlights a long-running tension between Kelly and Trump. Kelly has been one of his most consistent critics over the years, and her willingness to bring up sensitive and personal accusations shows she is not holding back.
Trump, for his part, has continued to insist he is very smart and has superior genes in various public statements, a pattern that has drawn its own share of mockery and criticism from political observers across the spectrum.
Published: May 25, 2026 07:29 am