Megyn Kelly said Wednesday she would have President Trump as a guest on her new daytime television show.
“Definitely. I would not say ‘no’ to the sitting president of the United States,” Kelly told Ellen Degeneres of her new program, “Megyn Kelly Today,” ahead of its debut on NBC on Sept. 25.
Degeneres, a public critic of Trump, said she would not offer Trump the same courtesy because it would give him another platform to spout policies she disagreed with.
Kelly and Trump shared an acrimonious relationship in person and on social media, particularly after Kelly asked whether a man of Trump’s temperament ought to be president during the Fox’s Republican presidential debate in August 2016. Candidate Trump then declined to attend the January Fox News debate Kelly also moderated.
Kelly, who left Fox News in January after 12 years on the network, said the president’s behavior towards her figured into her decision to depart the “snake pit” of political cable news and return to reporting the news.
“Donald Trump has a way of clarifying one’s life choices,” Kelly said. “And that was true in my case too.”
“It wasn’t just the tweets,” Kelly said. “I didn’t want to be in a snake pit, I just wanted to cover the news. But it has a way of pulling you in over and over again, and that becomes your life and this wasn’t the life I wanted.”
“Megyn Kelly Today” is the former lawyer’s second attempt at success at NBC after “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly” failed to find an audience.
