5 Best Moments From Megyn Kelly's Interview With Donald Trump

Tuesday night, Donald Trump sat down to bury the hatchet with arch-nemesis Megyn Kelly, the Fox News anchor who asked him all those "unfair," “not nice” questions about his degrading treatment of women during that first debate last August. The interview, which took place at Trump Tower and aired during Kelly’s first prime-time special, tackled head-on the subject of their own feud, which they agreed was over – as long as he doesn’t use her cell phone number “for evil.”

Here were the five most telling moments.

1. “That first debate was pretty amazing.” In Kelly’s very first question, she asked Trump to describe the moment it really dawned on him that he might become president – and he brought up the debate that touched off their nine-month cold war. “Not to bring up an unpleasant [topic],” he said, “but that first debate was pretty amazing — 24 million people watching, a record for cable television.” He wasted absolutely no time asserting his power, saying that the moment that had reportedly ushered in a “dark” time for her had been the highlight of his year .

2. It’s not the tweets, it’s the retweets. In a stunning display of buck-passing, Trump asserted several times during the interview that his own insults over Twitter weren’t so bad, just the retweets from his followers. “The retweets are the killer,” he said. When Kelly called him out on calling her a “bimbo” over Twitter — “many times” — they got into a bizarre-o, extended smiling match and Trump actually said, “Excuse me.” But then he followed that weak apology with this: “It’s not the most horrible thing. Over your life, Megyn, you’ve been called a lot worse; is that right? Wouldn’t you say?” Which is, wow, so completely not the point it makes your head spin.

3. “I’ve never had a glass of alcohol.” I simply didn’t know this about Donald Trump. Due to the death of his brother from alcohol-related causes, Trump has eschewed alcohol his whole life. A billionaire real estate tycoon, cycling through young, beautiful wives every few years — a glass of scotch just seems to complete the picture, doesn’t it? Apparently not.

5. He’s not about to become more “presidential.” Trump views his hotheaded rhetoric as the key to his success. “If I were soft, if I were ‘presidential,’” he said, “if I would not have fought back the way I fought back, I don’t think I would have been successful.” When Kelly asked if he would “take your responsibility seriously and change your tone to try to be more unifying and less divisive,” he replied by saying that people love him so much that at his rallies, 25,000 people refuse to sit down during an hour-long speech.

Trump insisted he has a “very big heart” but could not think of a single time another person had hurt him. Even doing the sensitive-guy act as well as he was doing — which was clearly the tone he was going for but frankly, I give him a D — he simply couldn’t muster that kind of vulnerability.