Megyn Kelly Defended Trump’s Sexist Remark — And It Included A Shocking Name-Drop

Megyn Kelly is defending President Donald Trump’s latest disparagement of a female journalist by recalling the advice of a former boss she accused of sexual harassment.

On Tuesday, Trump lashed out at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who was pressing him about his relationship with late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Rather than answering the question directly, the president deemed Collins the “worst reporter” before adding: “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile.”

The headline-making exchange came up during Kelly’s two-hour interview with Vice President JD Vance on her SiriusXM radio show on Wednesday. Not surprisingly, Vance stood behind Trump, calling him “so perceptive” for seeing through Collins’ “antagonistic” approach.

Kelly agreed with Vance’s assessment while dismissing other public figures who blasted the president’s commentary as sexist.

“I literally said the same thing about Kaitlan Collins a year ago on my show. She never smiles,” the former Fox News host said. “Every once in a while, you have to smile. Roger Ailes used to tell us that. Every once in a while, you’ve got to remember to smile, show the viewers that you have a heart.”

Kelly’s allusion to Ailes, the former chairman and CEO of Fox News, had many listeners doing a double take.

In 2016, Kelly was among nearly two dozen female Fox News employees to accuse Ailes of sexual harassment. Though Ailes denied the allegations, he resigned in July of that year.

Ailes died in 2017 at age 77. The cases against him, however, were the basis for the Oscar-winning 2019 film “Bombshell,” starring Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron.

In recent weeks, Trump has ramped up his attacks on Collins and other female journalists as they’ve questioned him about his relationship with Epstein, who died by apparent suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking underage girls.