--- title: Michael Moore to Megyn Kelly: I Feel Bad for You Over Trump description: Kelly agreed Trump should have nothing to fear, calls herself 'a pussycat' canonical: https://time.com/4195476/michael-moore-megyn-kelly-donald-trump/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-27T13:11:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:57.188Z article:section: Politics og:title: Michael Moore to Megyn Kelly: "I Feel Bad for You" og:description: Kelly agreed Trump should have nothing to fear, calls herself 'a pussycat' og:url: https://time.com/4195476/michael-moore-megyn-kelly-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt766c75b08f7aee22/69887ab30a4a22d1069c8130/michael-moore-megyn-kelly.png?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 750 og:image:height: 422 og:image:alt: michael-moore-megyn-kelly og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Michael Moore to Megyn Kelly: "I Feel Bad for You" twitter:description: Kelly agreed Trump should have nothing to fear, calls herself 'a pussycat' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt766c75b08f7aee22/69887ab30a4a22d1069c8130/michael-moore-megyn-kelly.png?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Michael Moore Get Sympathetic With Fox News and Megyn Kelly Over Trump > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ## Video: TIME Raw: Trump Says Megyn Kelly is Biased Against Him [Watch (HLS stream): TIME Raw: Trump Says Megyn Kelly is Biased Against Him](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EykKlFxH.m3u8) (0:11)  _Published 2016-01-27_ by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jan 27, 2016 1:11 PM UTC  by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jan 27, 2016 1:11 PM UTC Michael Moore paid a visit to Megyn Kelly on Tuesday night and promptly derailed her interview plans by telling her “I feel bad for you” after Donald Trump said he would [skip a Fox News debate](http://time.com/4195194/donald-trump-skip-fox-debate/) because she will be the moderator. “What’s he afraid of?” asked Moore. “I’m sitting here, I don’t feel any fear.” “You shouldn’t,” said Kelly, “I’m a pussycat.” The Oscar-winning director talked about his new film [_Where to Invade Next_](http://time.com/4119966/michael-moore-documentary/) and his views on the current political landscape, expressing disappointment in Obama’s time in office and saying he has liked Hillary Clinton since the ’90s despite saying parts of her campaign strategy were “disgusting” in 2008. **Read more:** [Michael Moore: Flint Poisoning Is a ‘Racial Crime’](http://time.com/4188323/michael-moore-flint-racial-crime/) “Before I leave,” Moore said, “I just wanna say again, you know, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, to get elected president in this company, you have to come on this network, you have to play ball with this network. Donald Trump today said ‘I’m not playing ball with this network.’ That’s a historic moment. And it’s gonna be interesting to see where the real power is. Trump says he doesn’t need Fox News. I think Fox News probably has something else to say about that … You’ve made this happen, you’ve caused a crisis upstairs here!” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4195476/michael-moore-megyn-kelly-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4195476/michael-moore-megyn-kelly-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Watch Michael Moore Get Sympathetic With Fox News and Megyn Kelly Over Trump","datePublished":"2016-01-27T13:11:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:41:57.188Z","description":"Kelly agreed Trump should have nothing to fear, calls herself 'a pussycat'","url":"https://time.com/4195476/michael-moore-megyn-kelly-donald-trump/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Flint"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt766c75b08f7aee22/69887ab30a4a22d1069c8130/michael-moore-megyn-kelly.png?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/blt766c75b08f7aee22/69887ab30a4a22d1069c8130/michael-moore-megyn-kelly.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"michael-moore-megyn-kelly","caption":"","creditText":"","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/4195476/michael-moore-megyn-kelly-donald-trump/","name":"Watch Michael Moore Get Sympathetic With Fox News and Megyn Kelly Over Trump"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME Raw: Trump Says Megyn Kelly is Biased Against Him","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/EykKlFxH/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-01-27T13:55:24.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EykKlFxH.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4195476/michael-moore-megyn-kelly-donald-trump/","duration":"PT11S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4195476/michael-moore-megyn-kelly-donald-trump/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```