Megyn Kelly Says Trump Cheated on Every Wife He Has Ever Had

When a Former Ally Breaks Ranks, the Truth Has a Way of Coming Out

A single podcast appearance by former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has exploded across the political landscape, forcing a conversation that many Trump supporters have long avoided. On a Friday episode of the Hodgetwins Podcast, Kelly did not whisper or hedge. She said it plainly: Donald Trump has cheated on every wife he has ever had. For a woman who once stood on a Pittsburgh rally stage and called Trump “a protector of women,” those words carry a weight that cannot be easily dismissed.

What Kelly Said and Why She Said It

The comments did not come out of nowhere. They were sparked by something Trump himself said.

<p>After his former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigned in March 2026 over opposition to the U.S. war with Iran, Trump went on the attack. Speaking to reporters, Trump said he was “not a fan” of Kent and then added a personal jab, suggesting Kent had remarried “fairly quickly” after losing his wife.</p>

The problem with that attack? It was not accurate. Kent married Heather Kaiser, a fellow Army veteran, in August 2023, about 4.5 years after Shannon’s death. Shannon Kent, a Navy linguist and intelligence officer, was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria on January 16, 2019. She was a decorated servicemember. Shannon was killed by a suicide bomber in Manbij, Syria, and three other Americans and more than a dozen civilians and Coalition forces were killed in the ISIS bombing.

For Megyn Kelly, Trump mocking a Gold Star widower for moving on after four and a half years crossed a line.

“Talk about a glass house!” Kelly said on the Hodgetwins Podcast.

Kelly claimed, “I mean, Trump has cheated on every wife he’s had. I mean, he met Marla Maples while he was still married to the mother of his children, Ivana. It was all over the New York papers. Like he was proud of the affair!”

A History That Is Already on Record

Kelly’s claim about the affair with Marla Maples is not a matter of debate. Trump’s romance with Maples, which eventually became his second marriage after his 1990 divorce from Ivana Trump, was front-page news in New York for years. Trump himself rarely denied it.

Trump has been married three times. He married Ivana Zelnicková in 1977, and together they had three children: Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. Before marrying Melania Trump in 2005, he exchanged vows with Ivana Zelníčková. He was also married to Marla Maples, with whom he had a daughter, Tiffany.

The affair with Maples while he was still married to Ivana was not just tabloid gossip. It was confirmed by the parties involved and became the centerpiece of one of the most public divorces in New York history.

The Ivana Allegation: What the Record Shows

Kelly did not stop there. She also brought up a more serious and long-disputed claim involving Trump’s first wife.

Kelly told the hosts, “Ivana, his first wife, accused him of raping her,” before adding that she could not personally confirm the allegation.

This allegation has a documented history. Ivana Trump’s allegation that Donald Trump raped her first surfaced in divorce testimony around 1989 to 1990 and was later publicized in a 1993 biography; she subsequently clarified that she did not intend the word “rape” in a literal, criminal sense, saying she felt emotionally violated.

Ivana Trump’s assertion of “rape” came in a deposition, part of the early 1990s divorce case between the Trumps, and was revealed in the 1993 book “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump” by former Texas Monthly and Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III. According to the book, the incident followed a painful scalp reduction surgery that left Trump furious.

Ivana Trump had already walked back the rape allegation in 1993 as the book was about to be published. “During a deposition given by me in connection with my matrimonial case, I stated that my husband had raped me,” Ivana Trump said in a statement at the time. She went on to say that she had felt violated but did not want her words interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.

In 2015, Ivana Trump appeared to refute the allegations once again, saying, “The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of.”

There was no criminal charge or conviction arising from the claim. Kelly herself acknowledged she could not confirm whether the allegation was true, but she raised it in the context of Trump sitting in judgment of a Gold Star widower’s personal life.

What About Melania?

Kelly also turned her attention to Trump’s current marriage.

Kelly said, “If you think Trump’s been faithful to Melania, that’s great. You’ve got bigger issues than I can solve here.”

Trump’s relationship with adult film actress Stormy Daniels led to a criminal hush money trial and conviction in 2024. Daniels alleged a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, shortly after Melania gave birth to their son Barron. Trump has denied the affair.

Melania Trump has addressed the ongoing speculation about her marriage. “It is not a concern and focus of mine,” Melania Trump said during an interview with “Good Morning America” in October 2025. “I’m a mother and a first lady and I have much more important things to think about and to do. I know people like to speculate and the media like to speculate about our marriage.”

The Dramatic Reversal of Megyn Kelly

Perhaps the most significant part of this story is not what Kelly said, but who said it.

Megyn Kelly and President Donald Trump’s relationship has been tumultuous, starting with a disagreement during the 2015 Republican primary debate and culminating in Kelly publicly endorsing Trump in 2024 before condemning his stance on the conflict with Iran in 2026.

That 2015 debate moment was historic. Kelly asked Trump directly about his history of demeaning comments toward women. Trump attacked her relentlessly for months afterward. The feud between Trump and Kelly started on August 6, 2015, at the first Republican presidential debate. Trump made a comment widely interpreted as a reference to Kelly’s menstrual cycle and even boycotted a later Fox News debate because Kelly was a moderator.

Yet despite all of that, the two eventually reconciled. Kelly interviewed Trump in 2023. And then, just last year, during the 2024 general election, Kelly appeared with Trump at a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During her speech, Kelly said, “He will be a protector of women. And it’s why I’m voting for him.”

That makes her comments on the Hodgetwins Podcast all the more striking. Kelly also said during an appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show” with Russell Brand that there are aspects of Trump’s “personality which are obviously not good and that we’ve mostly just chosen to overlook,” and that the president is “not a moral man.”

The former Fox personality publicly supported the president, but has now clashed with Trump over the war in Iran.

Why This Moment Matters

When someone who endorsed Donald Trump as “a protector of women” goes on a conservative podcast and says he has cheated on every wife he has ever had, that is not a liberal talking point. That is a former ally telling the truth as she sees it.

The pattern Kelly described is verifiable in the public record. Trump’s affair with Marla Maples while married to Ivana was confirmed and well documented. The Stormy Daniels payments led to a criminal verdict. The Ivana deposition, however contested and retracted, is a matter of court record.

What Kelly did on Friday was not an attack from the left. It was something more uncomfortable for Trump’s base: an accounting from within.

The question it raises is a simple one. If a man who has a documented history of infidelity wants to sit in moral judgment of a decorated veteran for grieving and eventually remarrying after his wife was killed in combat, who exactly is living in a glass house?

Kelly’s answer was blunt and backed by the public record. Whether Trump’s supporters choose to hear it is another matter entirely.

The Larger Pattern of Accountability

What Kelly’s comments reveal is something that has been true for years but rarely said out loud in conservative circles: character consistency matters, even when the person in question is politically convenient.

Joe Kent lost his wife to a suicide bombing while she was serving her country. He honored her memory. He raised their two sons. He eventually found companionship again years later. And then he had the courage to resign his government position rather than support a war he believed was unjust, invoking Shannon’s sacrifice as his reason.

Trump’s response was to question his loyalty to his late wife’s memory.

Megyn Kelly’s response to that was to hold up a mirror.

That mirror reflects a decade of documented behavior: affairs, hush money payments, court depositions, and a pattern of publicly shaming others for the very things the record shows he has done himself.

The facts, as Kelly laid them out, were not invented. They were already there. She just said them out loud.