Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may be ready to finally call it quits on the Megyn Kelly trash talking.
Trump said in a radio interview with Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that he watched Kelly’s Fox News show the previous evening and that he liked it “very much.”
“Actually I watched her show last night, she was very nice and I appreciated it,” Trump said of the Fox anchor he has criticized since the network’s GOP presidential debate in early August.
Asked if he was done with the fight, Trump said that he is and that he had spoken with Fox CEO Roger Ailes.
“Roger Ailes is great,” Trump said. “Roger Ailes is a special guy. He’s a good friend of mine. We just spoke two minutes ago and Roger Ailes is a great guy and no, I have no problem and I actually liked her show very much last night, if you want to know the truth.”
Trump’s feud with Kelly goes back to the first Republican presidential debate, hosted by Fox in early August. There, Kelly asked him to defend his previous public comments about some women being “pigs” and other disparaging things. Trump went on a media tour after, charging that Kelly’s questions of him were “unfair.”
When Kelly went on a vacation thereafter, Trump said in interviews and on social media that it was probably because he attacked her. When she returned to her show on Monday, Trump posted negative messages on Twitter about her and her performance.
Ailes released a statement Wednesday calling on Trump to apologize for his comments about Kelly but Trump has declined, maintaining instead that Kelly should be the one to apologize to him.
A spokesperson for Fox did not return a request for comment.
