Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, 55, has ignited a firestorm of controversy after publicly declaring that President Donald Trump has been unfaithful to every woman he has married, including First Lady Melania Trump, during her May 22, 2026, guest appearance on the “Hodgetwins Podcast.”
Kelly made the explosive allegations while criticizing the president for his recent remarks about former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent, who married Heather Kaiser Kent four years following the combat death of his first wife, Navy officer Shannon Kent, in 2019. Trump had questioned publicly the timing of Kent’s remarriage.
A Glass House Comparison
“Talk about a glass house!” Kelly told the hosts, according to coverage of the podcast. “Trump has cheated on every wife he’s had. I mean, he met Marla Maples while he was still married to the mother of his children, Ivana. It was all over the New York papers… like, he was proud of the affair!”
Kelly went further by referencing an old and disputed rape allegation made by Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump, noting that Ivana later retracted the accusation — first in 1993, and again during Trump’s 2015 presidential campaign.
Her sharpest barb targeted speculation surrounding the current first lady. “If you think Trump’s been faithful to Melania, that’s great. You’ve got bigger issues than I can solve here,” Kelly said.
Trump’s Three Marriages
The president has been married three times. His first marriage to Ivana Zelníčková in 1977 produced three children: Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump. Divorce proceedings began in 1990, with the divorce finalized in 1991, after Trump’s well-documented affair with model and actress Marla Maples.
In 1993, Trump married Maples. They had daughter Tiffany Trump before divorcing in 1999. Trump married Melania Trump six years later, in 2005. Their son, Barron Trump, was born in 2006.
Allegations of Trump’s infidelity reemerged nationally in 2018, when he became embroiled in a criminal case over an alleged “hush money” payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels regarding an alleged 2006 sexual encounter — the same year Barron was born.
Melania’s Public Response
First Lady Melania Trump has previously addressed marriage speculation head-on. During an October 2025 interview on “Good Morning America,” she firmly rejected media rumors about her relationship with the president.
“It is not a concern and focus of mine,” she said at the time. “I’m a mother and a first lady, and I have much more important things to think about and to do. I know people like to speculate, and the media like to speculate about our marriage.”
Not Kelly’s First Critique
Kelly’s latest remarks are far from her initial criticisms of the president’s character. In an earlier episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show” featuring British media personality Russell Brand, she characterized certain elements of Trump’s personality which are obviously not good and that we’ve mostly just chosen to overlook, as previously reported. She called the president “not a moral man” and “not the greatest husband in the world,” further describing him as “extremely petty and thin-skinned.”
The two have shared a turbulent history, notably clashing during the 2016 Republican presidential debate cycle when Kelly was still at Fox News, though they later appeared to find more political common ground. Her recent comments, however, indicate she remains willing to call out what she perceives as presidential hypocrisy.
Kelly’s podcast appearance has sparked intense online debate, with the president’s supporters dismissing her commentary as opportunistic while Trump detractors have applauded her for what they view as overdue frankness from a prominent conservative media figure. As of June 5, 2026, neither the White House nor representatives for the first lady had issued a formal response to Kelly’s claims.
What remains clear is that Kelly’s words — delivered with characteristic bluntness — have once again injected the president’s personal life into the broader political conversation.