Fact check: Donald Trump cheated on every wife he has had.

Verdict: mostly true — Trust Score 80/100

This content is confirmed by 2 reliable sources including the Washington Post, The Guardian, and recent 2026 reports from Inkl and Reality Tea. While the video accurately depicts Megyn Kelly's recent remarks on the Hodgetwins podcast (May 2026), the claim that Ivana Trump's rape allegation appeared in her 'first book' is factually incorrect; the allegation originated in a 1990 divorce deposition and was first published in Harry Hurt III's 1993 biography 'Lost Tycoon'.

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYzfY5vOesQ/?igsh=bTEwdWFrNWsxZnI5
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May 26, 2026
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Original content reviewed

Platform: INSTAGRAM Author: @couriernewsroom --- Caption/Description --- This comes weeks after Trump attacked Megyn Kelly. --- Audio Transcript (What was said) --- Talk about a glass house. I mean, Trump has cheated on every wife he's had. He met Marla Maples while he was still married to the mother of his children, Ivana. It was all over the New York papers. I'm from New York, upstate New York, but I was in New York when this all went down the city. And he was like being touted, like he was proud of the affair. It was all over the papers. So, and by the way, Ivana, his first wife, accused him of raping her, that she alleged in her first book that he was so angry over the hair transplant he got that she made him get, it was so painful that he raped her. And she later retracted that when he ran for president, but that stood on the books for some time. I don't know whether that's true or not. I'm just saying, clearly not a great relationship there. And then he winds up with Melania and if you think Trump's been faithful to Melania, okay, that's great. You got bigger issues than I can solve here. But so the nerve, like the nerve for him to be judging somebody else's marriage or love relationships or choices, it just shows you like he's got chutzpah, I guess is the word for it, like beyond. And it was really inappropriate. No, it was wrong. What he said was wrong on many levels. --- On-Screen Text (OCR) --- MUST WATCH LONG-TIME TRUMP ADVOCATE MEGYN KELLY CALLS OUT TRUMP'S VIOLENT AND UNFAITHFUL RELATIONSHIP BEHAVIOR COURIER X @marccofoster_ --- MUST WATCH LONG-TIME TRUMP ADVOCATE MEGYN KELLY CALLS OUT TRUMP’S VIOLENT AND UNFAITHFUL RELATIONSHIP BEHAVIOR COURIER Published: 2026-05-26T14:04:27.000Z ---VERIFICATION_SUMMARY--- Platform: INSTAGRAM Author: @couriernewsroom --- Caption/Description --- This comes weeks after Trump attacked Megyn Kelly. --- Audio (Condensed) --- Trump cheated on every wife. He met Marla Maples while married to Ivana. Ivana

Claims analyzed (5)

  1. mostly true: Donald Trump cheated on every wife he has had.
    Trump's affair with Marla Maples while married to Ivana is well-documented. He met Melania while still married to Marla. Allegations of affairs with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal during his marriage to Melania were supported by testimony and evidence in his 2024 hush money trial, though he denies them.
  2. verified: Donald Trump met Marla Maples while he was still married to Ivana Trump.
    The affair between Donald Trump and Marla Maples began in the late 1980s while he was still married to Ivana Trump, leading to a highly publicized divorce in 1990.
  3. misleading: Ivana Trump accused Donald Trump of rape in her first book.
    The allegation was made in a 1990 sworn deposition during divorce proceedings. It was first brought to public attention in Harry Hurt III's 1993 unauthorized biography 'Lost Tycoon', not in a book written by Ivana herself.
  4. verified: Ivana Trump's rape allegation was linked to a painful hair transplant procedure Donald Trump underwent.
    In her deposition, Ivana described a 1989 incident where Donald Trump was allegedly in pain and angry following a scalp reduction surgery (hair restoration), which she claimed led to the assault.
  5. verified: Ivana Trump retracted her rape allegation against Donald Trump when he ran for president.
    Ivana Trump issued a statement in 2015 during Trump's first campaign, calling the story 'totally without merit' and clarifying that she did not mean the word 'rape' in a literal or criminal sense.

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