Trump and Fox's Ailes strike a truce, again

Another truce seems to have been struck between Fox News chief Roger Ailes and Donald Trump.

On Wednesday, Trump told radio host Laura Ingraham that he and Ailes spoke that morning, one day after releasing dueling statements about Fox News host Megyn Kelly.


“Roger Ailes is great. He’s a special guy and a good friend of mine. We just spoke two minutes ago. I mean, Roger Ailes is a great guy and no, I have no problem,” Trump said.

Fox News and Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

On Monday night, the Republican presidential candidate went on a Twitter tirade against Kelly, with whom he’s had an issue since the first GOP debate, when, as a moderator, Kelly pointedly questioned Trump about his remarks about women.

On Tuesday, Ailes released a statement defending Kelly and calling Trump’s attack on her “unprovoked,” “unacceptable” and “disturbing.”

Trump fired back with his own statement, saying “I totally disagree” with Ailes and that he does not think Kelly is a “quality journalist.”

But by Wednesday, all seemed to be well again. Trump told Ingraham he watched Kelly’s show on Tuesday night and that she was very nice.

“Actually I watched her show last night; she was very nice and I appreciated it,” Trump said, adding that he is not in a “death struggle” with Fox News and that it’s “not a big deal.”

Though Kelly didn’t directly address Trump’s attacks on her, she did report on Trump’s tussle with Univision’s Jorge Ramos and his high poll numbers and even pushed Sen. Ted Cruz on a question about deporting the American-born children of people living in the country illegally. She told Cruz: “That doesn’t sound like an answer. Mr. Trump answered that question explicitly last night on ‘The O’Reilly Factor.’ Would you do so now?”

And at least for now, Trump may be done with the Kelly Twitter attacks.

On Wednesday, Ingraham asked Trump if he would stop with the late-night tweets and retweets, pointing to one comment Trump retweeted on Monday night that called Kelly a “bimbo.”

“No, I have much bigger things to think about, honestly. I mean, they made a big deal out of that, and I just don’t see, that was a retweet,” Trump said.