As punishment for asking the former president basic questions about biological sex, Megyn Kelly is Donald Trump’s latest nasty woman.
“Boy, she became nastier all of a sudden,” Trump said Wednesday, in reference to the interview he and Kelly had last week. “She was pretty nasty, didn’t you think?”
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Trump slams @megynkelly as “nasty” for asking him tough questions during their interview pic.twitter.com/ty3PqQ8jZC
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) September 20, 2023
Trump called Hillary Clinton a nasty woman in the 2016 presidential race. It seems, though, that Trump’s use of the phrase, to describe people who don’t agree with him, transcends party lines.
Kelly interviewed Trump last week — for the first time since the pair exchanged blows at the 2016 presidential debate. Trump said Kelly was nasty then, too, for comments and questions such as:
You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals . . . Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?
Women who have the gall to question Trump earn his “nasty” label. But no one has pressed Trump as judiciously as Kelly. Her queries in last week’s interview could have helped the former president, if he had let them. Instead, to Kelly’s question about the Trump administration’s positive stance on mask mandates and vaccines, Trump just said that “nobody knew what the hell [the pandemic] was . . . we had no idea.” When asked about making Anthony Fauci the face of the White House Covid task-force, Trump deflected blame and said he didn’t know who, in his own administration, had given Fauci a presidential commendation. Trump paused when asked whether a man could become a woman, and responded, “I think part of it is birth. Can a man give birth? No.”
The kids these days have a new word: narsty. It is, Urban Dictionary explains, derivative of gnarly and nasty, and invokes more disgust and repulsion than the standard version. Trump’s answers were narsty. They were repulsive, for a Republican candidate who should be able to easily defend the biological difference between men and women, criticize oppressive medical regimes, and unequivocally reject the murder of innocent babies (which Trump also refused to do last week).
Kelly’s record speaks for itself. She has — time and time again — fiercely defended women, whether it makes her more or less popular. She’s a truth-teller and a darn good interviewer, one that Trump’s name-calling tactics can’t defeat.