Trump and Megan become pals.

 

  By Florida Bill  
                                  
                                  Suggesting that their feuding was now behind them, Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump came together on prime time Television in a special show hosted by Kelly. 
                                 I am not sure whether any hatchets were really buried by the irascible Trump and the strident Kelly, but, heck, they were on the tube together, smiling and affable.  I suspect, however, that the accommodation was arranged, promoted and pushed by the Fox News bosses and the advisers to the egotistical Trump.
                                On camera, there was no apology by Trump for lashing into Kelly for months on the social media airways calling her a  "bimbo and crazy" and incompetent, and not a very nice person.  Kelly was courteous and reserved, but made it clear to "The Donald" that she deemed her questioning of him was "fair" and that he was asked to explain why he had called some women, "pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals" and whether that was appropriate for a man running for the highest office in the USA. 
                                 As I see it, they did not like each other when the show began, and I do not think that anything much has changed.  Pundits' idea that it was all lovey-dovey is just a lot of baloney.
                                 The feud and obvious dislike for each other began last August during a Republican debate when Kelly asked Trump to explain why he had referred to some women with those barn yard names.  He never answered that question during the debate or at any time since.  However he was so provoked with anger that he began his nine-month long attack on Kelly using twitter and face book with the obvious design of destroying her as a creditable person and reporter.  Kelly, who was a practicing attorney before joining the media, took it in stride, and actually seemed to enjoy it as she garnered lots of attention from her bosses at Fox News and watched her popularity increase.  She even was a guest on the Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon late night shows, and had her photograph on the covers of Variety and Vogue magazines. 
                                    Until Kelly tore into Trump for his labeling of some women with those unflattering monikers, Kelly was just a good-looking talking head with her own Fox News show, "The Kelly File," taking her cues and curtsying to the Fox News Bosses. Now she is overshadowing a good many of her peers at Fox News, including Big Dog Bill O'Reilly who has a bit of green in his eyes. 

                                     Over the past 10 months, Trump has been victorious in most primary elections and caucuses and is the Republican nominee in next November's presidential election. He promises to replace an inept President and "Make America Great Again," and that message is resonating with Americans. Although he has looked a bit peevish and vengeful in his spat with Kelly, it never dented his popularity as a GOP candidate. 
                                     At the so-called "make-up session" Kelly renewed the delicate subject of Trump's name calling, and Trump said that the question that had been asked him on the debate stage was "unfair."   It was not a question--it was a statement, Trump said, and he acknowledged that it angered him, and so he hit back hard, using the social media, which he said was a modern day way of fighting back.  "I am a counter puncher," he explained. 
                                      Any regrets, Kelly asked him.  Trump said "Yes, absolutely, but I am not going to discuss them (here)."  He said that he might have done things differently, but he added that Kelly had probably been called worse names than "bimbo" which he had tweeted and re-tweeted.   Did you make mistakes, Kelly asked.  Trump was firm in not admitting any mistakes, but in Kelly's reference to his insulting POW Sen. John McCain and GOP contender Carly Fiorina said "...I guess that I could have done without it....I wish I didn't do it," adding that "it is not healthy to look back." 
                                       Trump also noted in response to a question  that "If I do not win, I will consider the entire campaign a waste of time, money and energy.  
                                        All in all, it was a TV meeting which attracted millions of viewers and brought in lots of money for Fox News.  But the raw fact is that Trump never promised to end his tweeting of insults at Kelly, and never apologized for his peevish behavior.  Kelly never found out why Trump had pinned those barn yard names on some women.  All in all--status quo.
                                         If Trump becomes the country's 45th president, it is doubtful that Kelly will be asked to serve as his press secretary.  With Trump, however,  you just never know.                                               
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