--- description: Megyn Kelly said he had called women "fat pigs," ''dogs," ''slobs," and "disgusting animals" title: Trump Looking Into Whether He Said Those Things About Women image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75b31a54e867a0ce/69885e5da988cac2e86b3cd9/donald-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Trump Is Looking Into Whether He Actually Said Those Things About Women by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 7, 2015 4:30 PM CUT  Real estate tycoon Donald Trump speaks during the prime time Republican presidential debate on August 6, 2015 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Real estate tycoon Donald Trump speaks during the prime time Republican presidential debate on August 6, 2015 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.MANDEL NGAN—AFP/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 7, 2015 4:30 PM CUT Donald Trump [says he will investigate](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-recognize-insults-women-32943848 "undefined") whether he actually said the crass things about women that Megyn Kelly accused him of having said during the first Republican debate. 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 "undefined"), 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 "undefined") someone on Twitter calling Megyn Kelly a “bimbo.” \[[_AP_](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-recognize-insults-women-32943848 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3989005/trump-women-comments/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3989005/trump-women-comments/"},"headline":"Trump Is Looking Into Whether He Actually Said Those Things About Women","datePublished":"2015-08-07T16:30:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:00:22.471Z","description":"Megyn Kelly said he had called women \"fat pigs,\" ''dogs,\" ''slobs,\" and \"disgusting animals\"","url":"https://time.com/3989005/trump-women-comments/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75b31a54e867a0ce/69885e5da988cac2e86b3cd9/donald-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75b31a54e867a0ce/69885e5da988cac2e86b3cd9/donald-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE","caption":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE","creditText":"MANDEL NGAN—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3989005/trump-women-comments/","name":"Trump Is Looking Into Whether He Actually Said Those Things About Women"}}]}] ```