--- title: Donald Trump: Megyn Kelly Had 'Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever' description: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump doubled down on criticism of a female debate moderator Friday. canonical: https://time.com/3989652/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-blood-wherever/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-08T02:53:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:10.231Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump: Moderator Had 'Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever' og:description: He harshly criticized Fox News host Megyn Kelly. og:url: https://time.com/3989652/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-blood-wherever/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab9a078c868856fb/69885e6a5f570f47cdb1cd0d/donald-trump-megyn-kelly.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: 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. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump: Moderator Had 'Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever' twitter:description: He harshly criticized Fox News host Megyn Kelly. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab9a078c868856fb/69885e6a5f570f47cdb1cd0d/donald-trump-megyn-kelly.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump: Debate Moderator Had 'Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever' > Sponsored content. 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MANDEL NGAN—AFP/Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Aug 8, 2015 2:53 AM UTC Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump doubled down on criticism of a female debate moderator who pressed him on his history of offensive comments Thursday. In a call-in interview on CNN Friday, the real estate mogul said Fox News host Megyn Kelly was “off base” when she asked him about derogatory comments he has made about women, his past support for abortion and his criticism of his Republican opponents. “She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions,” he told CNN host Don Lemon. “You know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. In my opinion, she was off base.” Trump added that he was not alone, arguing that the “hundreds of thousands of people on Twitter” had also written that they did not like Kelly’s questions. In [one of the first questions of the debate](http://time.com/3988276/republican-debate-primetime-transcript-full-text/), Kelly asked Trump about comments in which he “called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals,'” “made disparaging comments about women’s looks” and told a contestant on _Celebrity Apprentice_ that “it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees.” Trump responded by arguing that he was kidding and that he didn’t have time for “total political correctness.” After the debate, he [blasted that and other questions](http://time.com/3988424/republican-debate-donald-trump-complaint/) as “nasty” and “unfair.” Below is the full text of Trump’s response to a question on CNN Friday about Kelly: --- > “” --- **Read Next:** [_Full Transcript of the Primetime Republican Debate_](http://time.com/3988276/republican-debate-primetime-transcript-full-text/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3989652/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-blood-wherever/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3989652/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-blood-wherever/"},"headline":"Trump: Debate Moderator Had 'Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever'","datePublished":"2015-08-08T02:53:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:10.231Z","description":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump doubled down on criticism of a female debate moderator Friday.","url":"https://time.com/3989652/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-blood-wherever/","keywords":["Debates","2016 Election","Donald Trump","Megyn Kelly"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab9a078c868856fb/69885e6a5f570f47cdb1cd0d/donald-trump-megyn-kelly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab9a078c868856fb/69885e6a5f570f47cdb1cd0d/donald-trump-megyn-kelly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"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.","caption":"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.","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/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3989652/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-blood-wherever/","name":"Trump: Debate Moderator Had 'Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever'"}}]}] ```