she’s really the only reporter who’s gone after him in any sort of way- most of the others either fawn over him or let him babble on say whatever. Throw in the fact she’s a woman and Trump thinking he’s a Man’s Man with every sexist connotation that comes with it and there you go.

Instead of a madonna/whore dichotomy, I think Trump employs a fat pig/bimbo dichotomy. Kelly is not fat or ugly, and she’s not a bimbo because she keeps challenging him. At first, he was pissed that she was given permission to do so, but now that it’s clear FOX isn’t going to hide her away to appease him, she is now…

Exactly. She doesn’t agree with him and he can’t call her “ugly”. So of course, he labels her “crazy”. What a psycho.

I would be so proud- please tell me your secrets!

One of my biggest accomplishments in life is (mostly) swaying my mom away from FOX news and getting her to watch Rachel Maddow.

I can see that. She's an accomplished and also attractive woman. I don't think he can handle that.

I think there is something weird and psychosexual in his inability to take criticism from her. He cannot abide her not liking him - her dissent. At first, it seemed like the usual politician versus pesky reporter war, but it’s not. There’s something about her being female that he cannot stand.

The word gets thrown out so much that it’s almost like “calling wolf” but it’s actual textbook narcissism. (Though I suspect that a certain degree of narcissism is required to pursue the Presidency.)

Yes. This is one of the worst things. How dare that asshole make Fox News look reasonable?

I think crazy to him means a woman he can’t control or one who is “ugly.”

I thought they stood up with her by keeping her the moderator of that debate he refused to participate in bc she was moderator. Am I wrong? Maybe they got rid of her to try and appease him? I’m too lazy to Google it.

Ah yes, the old “she’s crazy” trope. I bet Trump thinks his relationships with Ivana and Marla also failed because “they are crazy.” It’s always the women who are “crazy,” the common denominator couldn’t possibly be him, much less his misogyny.

Paraphrasing a comment from another poster:

Fox News standing up for Megyn Kelly now is like three months late. I wonder if they feel they can be belligerent because Trump had another debate canceled and those are big money makers for the networks.