Megyn Kelly: We ‘Overestimated’ Trump’s Anger Management Skills

Megyn Kelly attends The 35 Most Powerful People in Media hosted by The Hollywood Reporter at The Four Seasons Restaurant on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision for The Hollywood Re... Megyn Kelly attends The 35 Most Powerful People in Media hosted by The Hollywood Reporter at The Four Seasons Restaurant on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision for The Hollywood Reporter/AP Images) MORE LESS
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Fox News host Megyn Kelly said Tuesday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s anger management skills were “overestimated,” according to The Hill.

Trump and Kelly have had some significant back and forth so far in his campaign.

Trump initially criticized Kelly for questions she asked when she helped moderate the first GOP debate on Aug. 6. He faced lots of backlash after he said she looked during the debate like she had blood “coming out of her wherever.” Since then, Trump has been engaged in a war of words with Fox executives and personalities over his frequent attacks on the network host.

At the beginning of October, Kelly discussed on her show how Trump’s wife, Melania, had been unfairly criticized by the media and Trump thanked her on Twitter.

Kelly had said at the end of September during a panel discussion that she didn’t want to talk about Trump anymore. She also said Trump was a fighter who “has captured the attention of the electorate.”

But she appeared to change her mind on Tuesday when she discussed Trump’s anger-management skills.

“It’s clear we may have overestimated his anger-management skills,” Kelly said Tuesday, as quoted by the publication.

Then, Kelly addressed the GOP hopefuls, according to the report.

“Sorry, you put yourself into this,” Kelly reportedly said.“You have a job to do, which is answer tough questions. I have a tough job to do, which is ask them.”


This post has been updated.

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  1. Hysterical fear mongering ten. Anger management skills zero.

  2. Who is “we” exactly? Fox News? Is she saying that if they’d gauged Trump’s lack of self-control better, they would have asked him softball questions?

  3. Fox & Friends: Trumps lack of anger management is a huge positive for Trump’s candidacy for president. Leader of free world should be able to blow off any country or political party at any time with or without facts. This breaks the status quo. It also makes good television and our ratings go up.

  4. It seems to me that, for a person with nuclear launch codes, anger management is an essential job skill.

  5. Yeah…“our bad…we expected a GOP/Teatroll candidate to have the same emotional control and faculties as an adult because we temporarily forgot that they’re all just wealthy, pampered, pandering manchildren.”

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