--- title: Trump Looking Into Whether He Actually Said Those Things About Women description: Megyn Kelly said he had called women "fat pigs," ''dogs," ''slobs," and "disgusting animals" canonical: https://time.com/3989005/trump-women-comments/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-07T16:30:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:31:36.083Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Looking Into Whether He Said Those Things About Women og:description: Megyn Kelly said he had called women "fat pigs" and "disgusting animals" og:url: https://time.com/3989005/trump-women-comments/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75b31a54e867a0ce/69885e5da988cac2e86b3cd9/donald-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2273 og:image:height: 1279 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Looking Into Whether He Said Those Things About Women twitter:description: Megyn Kelly said he had called women "fat pigs" and "disgusting animals" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75b31a54e867a0ce/69885e5da988cac2e86b3cd9/donald-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Is Looking Into Whether He Actually Said Those Things About Women > Sponsored content. 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Kelly, one of the moderators on the Fox News debate, drew attention to Trump’s past remarks on Thursday night, saying, “You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.” He responded, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” “For the record,” Kelly said, “it was well beyond Rosie O’Donnell.” Trump appeared on _Good Morning America_ on Friday to discuss the debate and said he does not recall using the words Kelly accused him of using, but that “We’re going to take a very serious look at it,” the Associated Press reports. On _Morning Joe_, he said, “Not that I’m an angel, by the way. But I don’t recognize those words, so you know, she was spewing out these words, and I’m sitting there.” Trump’s O’Donnell insults are [well documented](http://www.vox.com/2015/8/6/9114625/republican-debate-donald-trump-women), but he has also reportedly used rude vocabulary to describe other women. He is reported to have once called a lawyer “disgusting” when she asked to pause a meeting so she could pump her breast milk. New York _Times_ columnist Gail Collins says he once wrote to her that she had the “face of a dog.” On Friday, he [retweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/629553612839124992) someone on Twitter calling Megyn Kelly a “bimbo.” \[[_AP_](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-recognize-insults-women-32943848)\] ## Transcript I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. Why don't I talk about race that often I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. To the families of those who died in that war who say they liberated a country and deposed a ruthless dictator, how do you look at them now and say your brother's war was a mistake? Knowing what we know now, it was a mistake. How is Hilary Clinton gonna lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck. 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