Trump’s ‘Glass House’ Moment Backfires as Megyn Kelly Reveals the One Accusation About His Marriages Even His Allies Won’t Touch
Straight for the jugular.
Donald Trump just got a brutal reality check from someone who used to be in his corner. Megyn Kelly went nuclear on the president during a recent podcast, accusing him of cheating on every single one of his wives and dragging up one of the most explosive allegations about his first marriage, one even his most loyal allies avoid discussing.
Kelly didn’t hold back while chatting with the Hodgetwins. The conversation started with Trump’s petty swipe at Joe Kent, his former counterterrorism chief, who resigned in March over the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran. Kent’s first wife, Shannon, died in a 2019 suicide bombing in Syria while serving in the military. Trump took a shot at Kent for remarrying “fairly quickly” after her death, calling him out on Truth Social in April.
“Talk about a glass house,” Kelly said, before launching into a no-holds-barred takedown of Trump’s own marital history. “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,” she said, according to Mediaite. She dredged up Ivana Trump’s long-buried accusation of rape, a claim that’s haunted Trump for decades but rarely gets airtime.
In 1990, Ivana had alleged SA by Trump
Ivana, Trump’s first wife, originally alleged in her 1990 divorce deposition that Trump had raped her in a fit of rage after a painful hair transplant she’d encouraged him to get. The accusation was later detailed in the 1993 biography Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, where author Harry Hurt III described it as a “violent assault.” Ivana reportedly told close friends at the time, “He raped me.”
Trump has always denied the claim, calling it “false” and “incorrect” in a 1993 interview. Ivana later walked back the language, saying she didn’t mean “rape” in a “literal or criminal sense,” but the damage was done. Kelly brought it all back into the spotlight, reminding listeners that the allegation had “stood on the books for some time” before Ivana retracted it during Trump’s 2016 presidential run.
Kelly’s frustration with Trump’s hypocrisy was palpable. She pointed out that Kent waited more than four years to remarry after his first wife’s death, a timeline she called “plenty of time to grieve.” To drive the point home, she shared a deeply personal story about her own parents. Her father died suddenly of a heart attack at 45, leaving her mother, a nurse, to raise three kids, two of whom were in college, on a single life insurance policy.
Her mother spent three years in a widows’ support group before eventually remarrying a widower she met there. “Four years is a long time, actually,” Kelly said. “It’s plenty of time to grieve your spouse and possibly find love again. Especially for someone in their 40s who knows themself and is mature.”
This isn’t the first time Kelly has gone after Trump in recent months
Once a vocal supporter, she’s become one of his most outspoken critics, especially since the war in Iran. She’s called him “weak” and “gullible,” ripped into his threats against late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, and even accused him of being “extremely petty and thin-skinned.” In April, she didn’t mince words about his marriage to Melania, saying, “He’s obviously not the greatest husband in the world.”
Her shift away from Trump and the MAGA movement has been dramatic. She endorsed him in 2024, calling him a “protector of women” and praising his support for “our forgotten boys and our forgotten men.” Now, she’s calling MAGA “an increasingly tiny group” and aligning herself with anti-interventionist figures like Tucker Carlson.
Trump, of course, has fired back at her and other former allies who’ve turned on him, dismissing their concerns as insurrection. But Kelly’s latest takedown feels different. She didn’t just criticize his policies or his rhetoric — she attacked the one thing even his most die-hard supporters tiptoe around: his personal life. The cheating allegations aren’t new, but Kelly’s willingness to drag them into the open, along with Ivana’s explosive rape claim, marks a new low in their feud.
What makes Kelly’s comments even more damaging is how she framed them. She didn’t just throw out accusations; she tied them directly to Trump’s own words. His dig at Kent for remarrying “fairly quickly” was the perfect setup for her to highlight his hypocrisy. If Trump wants to judge others for moving on after tragedy, Kelly made it clear he’s in no position to do so.
She also made sure to remind listeners that Ivana’s rape allegation wasn’t just some tabloid rumor. It was a serious accusation that Trump himself had to address, and one that still lingers in the public record.
The timing of Kelly’s comments is also worth noting
With the war in Iran still raging and Trump’s approval ratings taking a hit, his critics are getting bolder. Kelly’s not alone in her disillusionment. Other former allies, like Tucker Carlson, have also broken ranks, creating a growing rift in Trump’s support base.
For Trump, this is more than just another feud. He’s spent decades cultivating a persona as a tough, successful businessman and family man. Kelly’s accusations threaten to unravel that narrative, reminding the public of the messy, personal scandals he’s worked so hard to bury. If there’s one thing this feud makes clear, it’s that Trump’s past is never as buried as he’d like it to be.
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