--- title: Donald Trump: Megyn Kelly Remarks Cause Him to be Disinvited description: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has been disinvited from a conservative conference over his remarks on a Fox News host. canonical: https://time.com/3989656/donald-trump-redstate-gathering/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-08T04:06:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T02:44:15.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Fires Back After Outrage Over Megyn Kelly Remarks og:description: He was disinvited from a Georgia conference og:url: https://time.com/3989656/donald-trump-redstate-gathering/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb51735de85d30a98/69885e6a3c16393e554592e0/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2622 og:image:height: 1475 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Republican presidential debate og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Fires Back After Outrage Over Megyn Kelly Remarks twitter:description: He was disinvited from a Georgia conference twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb51735de85d30a98/69885e6a3c16393e554592e0/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Fires Back After Outrage Over Megyn Kelly Remarks > Sponsored content. 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Best Megyn Kelly Questions_ by [Zeke J Miller / Atlanta](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke J Miller / Atlanta Updated: Dec 13, 2023 2:44 AM UTCPublished: Aug 8, 2015 4:06 AM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participates in the first Republican presidential debate on Aug. 6, 2015, in Cleveland. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participates in the first Republican presidential debate on Aug. 6, 2015, in Cleveland. John Minchillo—AP by [Zeke J Miller / Atlanta](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke J Miller / Atlanta Updated: Dec 13, 2023 2:44 AM UTCPublished: Aug 8, 2015 4:06 AM UTC Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has been disinvited from a Georgia conference following [comments](http://time.com/3989652/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-blood-wherever/) critical of Fox News host [Megyn Kelly](http://time.com/70888/megyn-kelly-2014-time-100/), sparking a war of words with an influential conservative pundit. The real estate mogul’s invitation to this weekend’s RedState Gathering has been revoked, according to host Erick Erickson. Trump had been scheduled to appear at a tailgate at the College Football Hall of Fame with the conservative group on Saturday. “I wanted to have him here as a legitimate candidate, but no legitimate candidate suggests a female asking questions does so because she’s hormonal,” Erickson told reporters early Saturday. On Friday, Trump told CNN that Fox host Megyn Kelly was “off base” in her questions during [Thursday’s Republican debate](http://time.com/3988189/republican-debate-fox-first-gop-donald-trump/), in which she pressed him over some of his past remarks on women. “You know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever,” Trump told CNN host Don Lemon. **Read More:** [_Here’s How Rosie O’Donnell Responded to Donald Trump’s Jab_](http://time.com/3988886/donald-trump-controversy/) In a statement, a Trump campaign spokesman criticized Erickson’s decision, pledging to stand by the planned trip to Georgia. “This is just another example of weakness through being politically correct. For all of the people who were looking forward to Mr. Trump coming, we will miss you. Blame Erick Erickson, your weak and pathetic leader. We’ll now be doing another campaign stop at another location,” he said. In response to Trump’s statement, Erickson fired back, telling TIME, “I think it’s probably more pathetic to interpret a reporters’ tough question as the product of hormones.” “To suggest that the person who’s asking him the question has a hormone problem, doesn’t suggest that he’s tough, it suggests that he’s a bully,” he added. He also argued that Trump had “disqualified himself” and said this is “the beginning of the end” of his campaign. On Saturday morning, Trump released a statement criticizing Erickson, adding anyone suggesting Trump was referring to menstruation was “a deviant.” “Mr. Trump made Megyn Kelly look really bad—she was a mess with her anger and totally caught off guard,” Trump said. “Mr. Trump said “blood was coming out of her eyes and whatever” meaning nose, but wanted to move on to more important topics. Only a deviant would think anything else.” Erickson said that he has tried to give Trump “a great deal of latitude” in his presidential run, but the latest remark crossed a line. He also said that he has [invited Kelly to come](https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/629863562777886720) in Trump’s place, but that she [“probably can’t attend.”](https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/629863724703182848) Not yielding any ground, Trump noted that Erickson has a history of making controversial statements about he’s had to apologize for. “Not only is Erick a total loser, he has a history of supporting establishment losers in failed campaigns so it is an honor to be uninvited from his event,” he said. “Mr. Trump is an outsider and does not fit his agenda.” During Thursday’s debate, Kelly had challenged the way Trump talks about women, noting that he’s called women he doesn’t like “fat pigs,dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.” Trump responded to the question by saying he didn’t have time for “political correctness,” then[ complained immediately after the debate](http://time.com/3988424/republican-debate-donald-trump-complaint/) about Kelly’s questions. Trumps remarks about Kelly also drew another Republican presidential candidate—former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina—to condemn him in two tweets. > [](https://twitter.com/CarlyFiorina/status/629860119682097152) > [](https://twitter.com/CarlyFiorina/status/629860026916716545) The dust-up is the second time that Trump’s remarks have stirred up trouble within the conservative movement. In July, a number of conservatives were also moved to condemn him for suggesting that Sen. John McCain was not a war hero because he was captured. In a statement, presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham said is time for the GOP to stop courting Trump. “As a party, we are better to risk losing without Donald Trump than trying to win with him,” he said. “Enough already with Mr. Trump.” Meanwhile, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee rejected the notion that Trump’s comments would hurt the GOP with women voters. “The Republican Party is not engaged in a war on women,” he said. “The Republican Party is not engaged in saying things about Megyn Kelly—one individual is.” ### See Donald Trump Hanging Out With Unlikely Celebrities  Donald Trump, owner of New York's Trump Tower, holds the bridle of a polo pony while talking to Andy Warhol on Nov. 4, 1983. Mario Suriani—AP  Donald Trump, Don King and Barbara Walters on Dec. 12, 1987. Ron Galella—Getty Images  Professional Wrestler Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant With Donald Trump. Russell Turiak—Getty Images  Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, his wife, actress Robin Givens and Donald Trump, leave the New York State Supreme Court building on July 22, 1988. Charles Wenzelberg—AP  Developer Donald Trump is flanked by super middleweight champion Thomas Hearns, left, of Detroit, and Michael Olajide of Canada at a news conference in New York on Feb. 15, 1990. Timothy Clary—AP  Alec Baldwin is joined by Donald Trump and Melania Knauss at benefit for the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on October 8, 1999. Richard Corkery—NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images  Katie Couric, left, co-host of NBC-TV's "Today" show, is dressed like Donald Trump, right, during a spoof of his "The Apprentice" reality television show, on the morning program's annual Halloween segment on Oct. 29, 2004. Richard Drew—AP  Donald Trump and Larry King arrive at the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump in New York on March 9, 2011. Charles Sykes—AP  Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, left, and Donald Trump appear onstage at the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump in New York on March 9, 2011. Charles Sykes—AP  Snoop Dogg and Donald Trump arrive at the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump in New York on March 9, 2011. Charles Sykes—AP  Martha Stewart and Donald Trump at Richard "Skip" Bronson's, "The War at the Shore" Book Publication Party held at Loews Regency Hotel in New York City on June 11, 2012. Sylvain Gaboury—Sipa USA  Tiger Woods stands with Donald Trump as he holds the Gene Serazen Cup for winning the Cadillac Championship golf tournament on March 10, 2013, in Doral, Fla. Wilfredo Lee—AP  Donald Trump and recording artist and host Nick Jonas joke around onstage during the 2013 Miss USA pageant at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on June 16, 2013 in Las Vegas. Ethan Miller—Getty Images ## Transcript You've called women you don't like, fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. Your Twitter account has several... Only Rosie O'Donnell. No it wasnt'. Would you really let a mother die rather than have an abortion? And with 83 % of the American public in favor of a life exception, are you two out of the mainstream on this issue to win the general election? You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God, saying to skeptics that when they arrive in Heaven, Saint Peter isn't gonna ask them how small they've kept government, but what they have done for the poor. Why should Republican voters, who generally want to shrink government, believe that you won't use your St. Peter rationale to expand every government program? To the families of those that died in that war, who say that they liberated a country and that deposed a ruthless dictator, how do you look at them now and say that your brother's war was a mistake? If you believe that life begins at conception, as you say you do, how do you justify ending a life? Just because it begins violently, through no fault of the baby. You said in most cases you identified as a Democrat. Even in this campaign, your critics say you often sound more like a Democrat than a Republican, calling several of your opponents on this stage things like clowns and puppets. 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