Podcaster Megyn Kelly said she doesn’t expect presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to appear on her show “anytime soon” after their contentious sit-down last year.
“I had him [Trump] on in September and I don’t know that he loved that interview,” Kelly told Newsmax’s Eric Bolling on Thursday.
“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.”
The September interview marked the first time in seven years that the former president gave an interview to the former Fox and NBC anchor, and current SiriusXM host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast.
Kelly mercilessly interrogated Trump, insisting he made Anthony Fauci a star during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“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,” Kelly told Bolling, which was first reported on by Mediaite.
Kelly and Trump have had a lukewarm relationship since August 2015, when they infamously clashed during the first Republican debate of the 2016 campaign.
The then-Fox News star took him to task over past disparaging remarks about women.
Specifically, Kelly asked about Trump’s comments calling “women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.”
Aghast at the question, Trump raged against her for months and skipped a subsequent Fox News debate co-hosted by Kelly.
Kelly told Bolling that Trump still references that debate question “a lot.”
“He does have a long memory when it comes to those things,” Bolling replied.
In the years since, Kelly and Trump have reportedly mended fences.
Kelly has continued to express support for Trump, including when she defended his rant that migrants are “poisoning the blood” of America.
Trump, meanwhile, has “kind of gone on the attack against me a couple times publicly,” Kelly said.
Though she didn’t name any specific incidents in which Trump lashed out at her during the Newsmax segment, Trump accused Kelly of asking “nasty” questions during a campaign speech shortly after their September interview.
“She was pretty nasty, didn’t ya think? Anybody that watched it?” Trump told supporters in Iowa. “She became nastier all of a sudden.”
A few months later, before Kelly served as a moderator for the fourth Republican primary debate — which Trump skipped along with the first three — she told The Post: “I wouldn’t say I’m his favorite reporter, but I’m not his least favorite, either, which is a good place to be.”
After the debate, Trump branded Kelly “the biggest loser” of the event.
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