Megyn Kelly Calls Out Trump's Marriage Hypocrisy

When Megyn Kelly decided to weigh in on President Donald Trump’s criticism of former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent’s personal life, she didn’t hold back. During an appearance on the“Hodgetwins”podcast on Friday, May 22, the 55-year-old broadcaster made a direct challenge to Trump’s credibility when it comes to commenting on anyone else’s relationships.

Kelly’s argument was straightforward: Trump has no standing to judge.“Trump has cheated on every wife he’s had,”she stated plainly, pointing to his well-documented affair with Marla Maples while he was still married to Ivana Trump.“He met Marla Maples while he was still married to the mother of his children, Ivana. It was all over the New York papers. I’m from New York.”The public nature of that infidelity matters—it wasn’t whispered about in private circles. It played out across major publications in New York during the 1980s and early 1990s, making it nearly impossible for anyone familiar with that era’s tabloid landscape to claim ignorance.

The broader context for Kelly’s pushback came when Trump took to Truth Social on April 16 to comment on Joe Kent’s remarriage following the death of his first wife, Shannon Kent, who was killed in a suicide bombing in 2019. Trump wrote that Kent“married again, quite quickly, in my opinion”—a loaded statement that seemed to question the appropriateness of Kent’s timeline with artist Heather Kaiser, whom he married in 2023. It was the kind of personal judgment that Kelly found particularly galling given Trump’s own marital history.

But Kelly’s critique extended beyond infidelity alone. She also resurfaced allegations from a 1993 biography that Ivana Trump had accused Donald of sexual assault, allegations that Ivana later characterized as involving feeling“violated”rather than rape“in a literal or criminal sense.”While Kelly acknowledged uncertainty about the veracity of those claims, she used them to underline a larger point:“Clearly not a great relationship there.”Her tone suggested that the specifics matter less than the pattern they suggest about Trump’s approach to marriage and his ex-wife.

As for Trump’s current marriage to Melania Trump, Kelly was decidedly skeptical.“If you think Trump’s been faithful to Melania, that’s great. You’ve got bigger issues than I can solve here,”she said with a shrug that conveyed both resignation and mild derision. She concluded by characterizing Trump’s willingness to critique Kent’s personal choices as audacious:“The nerve for him to be judging someone else’s relationship…It just shows you he’s got chutzpah.”

What’s notable here is that Kelly’s critique rests on publicly available history rather than speculation. The Ivana affair was genuine tabloid fodder. The 1993 biography and its allegations are real matter of record, however disputed. By tethering her argument to documented events, Kelly shifted the conversation from opinion to accountability—suggesting that before anyone judges another person’s personal choices, they might want to examine their own.