SiriusXM podcast host Megyn Kelly dropped a huge video announcement on Thursday in which she said that she would soon be interviewing former president and leading 2024 Republican presidential contender Donald Trump.
She started off her show with the momentous announcement, telling her audience, “I want to start today with a big announcement, huge, you might say. Here at ‘The Megyn Kelly Show,’ we have welcomed many of the 2024 contenders. Vivek Ramaswamy has been on a bunch of times, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Chris Christie.”
Continuing, she noted that she has invited many of the other 2024 contenders as well, including even Democrat contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “You may remember my lengthy sit down just last month or late July with Governor Ron DeSantis. Even RFKJ has been here since his announcement as well as before,” she said.
That’s when she got to the big news she had been hinting at, saying, “But next week I will be interviewing former President Donald Trump. It will be my first interview with the former president in seven years, and there is so much to get to. I am really looking forward to this. It is going to be great.”
She further suggested that the interview, which will air live at noon on the 14th of September, is going to be about controversial topics and get Trump to answer the tough questions about his plans and presidency. She said, “It’s going to be spicy, and it’s going to be tough, but it’s going to be good, and hopefully we both are going to enjoy it. I think you all are going to enjoy it a lot too. We are going to have a lot of time to get into a variety of topics in person, sitting down with him in person.”
That’s when she added that she is not one of Trump’s sycophants and so plans on pressing him, though in a fair way. She said, “I am really looking forward to bringing you this one and many more to come. I’m very glad that he agreed to do it. He’s not saying yes to everyone and to his credit Donald Trump knows that I’m not somebody that suffers from Trump derangement syndrome like the vast majority of people in the media but I’m also not a sycophant. So I’m not going to go in there and be a boot licker. It’s going to be fun, and he can handle it perfectly well.”
Kelly and Trump had previously been in a feud over a 2016 race debate, during which she served as a moderator and asked him, You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals.’ Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”
Trump didn’t back down, retorting, “What I say is what I say. And honestly, Megyn, if you don’t like it, I’m sorry, I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me. But I wouldn’t do that to you.” He also fired off his famous “Only Rosie O’Donnell” line when Kelly was asking the question.
Watch Kelly make the announcement here:
For the first time in 7 years… @MegynKelly announces her interview with former President Donald Trump, next week on Thursday, September 14.
On The @MegynKellyShow on @SiriusXM ch. 111 #Triumph at NoonET, and all platforms after. Subscribe:https://t.co/YJPxz5Gu8d pic.twitter.com/kV1a5j9Dff
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) September 7, 2023
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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