“Trump has cheated on every wife he’s had,” Kelly, 55, claimed on the Friday, May 22, episode of the Hodgetwins podcast alongside conservative commentators Keith Hodge and Kevin Hodge. “He met Marla Maples while he was still married to the mother of his children,Ivana [Trump]. It was all over the New York papers.”
Donald, 79, has been married three times. He wed his first wife, Ivana in 1977, and the couple share three children: Donald Trump Jr., 48, Ivanka Trump, 44, and Eric Trump, 42.
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Their marriage ended in a highly publicized 1992 divorce after Donald’s affair with Maples became tabloid fodder. Donald married Maples, 62, in 1993, and the pair welcomed daughter Tiffany Trump, 32, before divorcing in 1999.
Kelly’s comments were prompted by Donald’s reaction to former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent’s resignation over the Iran war. Donald took to Truth Social on April 16 to remark that Kent “married again, quite quickly, in my opinion” after losing his first wife, Shannon Kent, in a 2019 suicide bombing, as reported by Us Weekly, Tuesday, May 26.
That kind of judgment didn’t sit well with Kelly. “If you think Trump’s been faithful to Melania, that’s great. You’ve got bigger issues than I can solve here,” she said on the podcast. “The nerve for him to be judging someone else’s relationship. … It just shows you he’s got chutzpah.”
Kelly also referenced sexual assault allegations made by Ivana in her 1990 divorce deposition, according to the 1993 biography Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. Ivana later denied her initial claims during her ex-husband’s 2015 presidential campaign. Per the Us Weekly report, Donald has strongly denied the allegations, calling them “obviously false.” Ivana died in 2022 at the age 73.
“I don’t know whether that’s true or not,” Kelly said on the Hodgetwins podcast. “I’m just saying, clearly not a great relationship there.”
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