--- title: Donald Trump Renews His Attacks on Megyn Kelly description: The Republican candidate called the Fox News anchor "unwatchable" canonical: https://time.com/4260830/donald-trump-renews-attacks-megyn-kelly/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-16T12:12:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:21.527Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Renews His Attacks on Megyn Kelly og:description: The Republican candidate called the Fox News anchor "unwatchable" og:url: https://time.com/4260830/donald-trump-renews-attacks-megyn-kelly/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf21f8c13b90fd0a5/69888b32196cf479c003ac46/megyn-kelly.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Fox News Sponsors Republican Presidential Candidate Debate Ahead Of Iowa Caucuses og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Renews His Attacks on Megyn Kelly twitter:description: The Republican candidate called the Fox News anchor "unwatchable" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf21f8c13b90fd0a5/69888b32196cf479c003ac46/megyn-kelly.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Renews His Attacks on Megyn Kelly > Sponsored content. 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Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly waits to begin the Republican presidential candidate debate at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 16, 2016 12:12 PM UTC Donald Trump celebrated his big primary [wins](http://time.com/4260025/super-tuesday-election-voting-ohio-donald-trump/?xid=homepage) on Tuesday in part by renewing his public disdain for Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. “Can’t watch Crazy Megyn anymore,” he [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/709893207845376004) on Tuesday evening. “Talks about me at 43% but never mentions that there are four people in race. With two people, big & over!” Several minutes later, he [added](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/709894230710337536), “Watching other networks and local news. Really good night! Crazy @megynkelly is unwatchable.” Throughout the night, Trump also retweeted fans who expressed their own disdain for Kelly. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/709890544860852224) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/709886835628105728) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/709885396285579264) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/709883604093018113) Trump [previously](http://time.com/4247405/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-debate-opponent/) sparred with Kelly after the August debate when he said she had come after him unfairly as moderator, with “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.” He later refused to take part in another debate she moderated in January. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4260830/donald-trump-renews-attacks-megyn-kelly/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4260830/donald-trump-renews-attacks-megyn-kelly/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Renews His Attacks on Megyn Kelly","datePublished":"2016-03-16T12:12:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:21.527Z","description":"The Republican candidate called the Fox News anchor \"unwatchable\"","url":"https://time.com/4260830/donald-trump-renews-attacks-megyn-kelly/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf21f8c13b90fd0a5/69888b32196cf479c003ac46/megyn-kelly.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/bltf21f8c13b90fd0a5/69888b32196cf479c003ac46/megyn-kelly.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fox News Sponsors Republican Presidential Candidate Debate Ahead Of Iowa Caucuses","caption":"Fox News Sponsors Republican Presidential Candidate Debate Ahead Of Iowa Caucuses","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/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/4260830/donald-trump-renews-attacks-megyn-kelly/","name":"Donald Trump Renews His Attacks on Megyn Kelly"}}]}] ```