--- title: Donald Trump: Megyn Kelly Hits Back at Trevor Noah Criticism description: Megyn Kelly fired back on Thursday at comedian Trevor Noah, after he mocked her highly anticipated prime-time interview with Donald Trump canonical: https://time.com/4341647/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah-donald-trump/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-19T22:46:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:40:58.937Z article:section: Politics og:title: Megyn Kelly Hits Back at Trevor Noah's Trump Interview Jokes og:description: "I'm sure his life experience far better than mine on this!" og:url: https://time.com/4341647/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c1caaec2e6b8d8b/698893ee3c1639da7f45d543/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3900 og:image:height: 2194 og:image:alt: FOX Special - "Megyn Kelly Presents" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Megyn Kelly Hits Back at Trevor Noah's Trump Interview Jokes twitter:description: "I'm sure his life experience far better than mine on this!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c1caaec2e6b8d8b/698893ee3c1639da7f45d543/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Megyn Kelly Hits Back at Jokes About Handling Donald Trump 'Gender Attacks' > Sponsored content. 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Eric Liebowitz—FOX/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly May 19, 2016 10:46 PM UTC [Megyn Kelly](http://time.com/4326784/megyn-kelly-donald-trump-fox-news/) fired back on Thursday at comedian Trevor Noah, after he mocked her [prime-time interview](http://time.com/4339574/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-special/) with presidential candidate Donald Trump during Wednesday’s episode of _The Daily Show_. “So grateful I have men like (Noah) 2 advise on how to deal w/gender attacks- I’m sure his life experience far better than mine on this!” Kelly wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning. Noah [criticized the interview on his show](http://www.cc.com/video-clips/u5fct4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-donald-trump-and-megyn-kelly-finally-face-off) Wednesday, arguing Kelly did not ask Trump enough tough questions, especially when discussing his comments about women. “This was sold as a bloodbath,” Noah said. “But in the end it just turned out to be one of those couple’s baths that only exist in, like, the Cialis commercials.” Noah specifically referenced a [moment in the interview](http://time.com/4339581/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-bimbo-fox-special/) when Kelly noted that Trump had retweeted followers who called the Fox News anchor a “bimbo.” After some quibbling, Trump laughed and half-jokingly said, “Excuse me.” “Megyn Kelly, I don’t get it, you spent months lambasting Trump for his sexist comments, and now you’re just laughing it off?” Noah said on his show. “I can’t believe this, but Megyn Kelly just got negged by Donald Trump. He repeatedly insulted her and then all of a sudden switched it up with a little charm and just like that, she’s all smiles.” > [](https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/733293552315338752) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4341647/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4341647/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Megyn Kelly Hits Back at Jokes About Handling Donald Trump 'Gender Attacks'","datePublished":"2016-05-19T22:46:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:40:58.937Z","description":"She responded to Trevor Noah's \"Daily Show\" segment on her interview with Trump","url":"https://time.com/4341647/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah-donald-trump/","keywords":["Television","Donald Trump","Megyn Kelly"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c1caaec2e6b8d8b/698893ee3c1639da7f45d543/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c1caaec2e6b8d8b/698893ee3c1639da7f45d543/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FOX Special - \"Megyn Kelly Presents\"","caption":"FOX Special - \"Megyn Kelly Presents\"","creditText":"Eric Liebowitz—FOX/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":"https://time.com/4341647/megyn-kelly-trevor-noah-donald-trump/","name":"Megyn Kelly Hits Back at Jokes About Handling Donald Trump 'Gender Attacks'"}}]}] ```