Co-hosts of ABC's The View are outraged that MSNBC‘s Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence, the Washington Examiner reported. Sunny Hostin likened it to them going to "kiss the ring" of Trump.
During Monday's broadcast, Scarborough and Brzezinski spoke about meeting with the president-elect for the first time in seven years. "For nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, Jan. 6, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote," Brzezinski said.
"Joe and I realize it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump but also talking with him," she added. This was too much for the harpies on The View to handle.
Hostin and Ana Navarro, paragons of leftist tolerance, railed against the MSNBC journalists for reaching out to Trump. "The bottom line is that America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power right now more than ever,” Hostin claimed.
"I think we have to be very clear on it when we think about the president-elect and cover the president-elect, and I don’t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak the truth and be able to cover a story," she added. Hostin said Scarborough and Brzezinski are "not journalists in the true sense" but instead "opinion journalists" in a passive-aggressive shot.
"I don’t think he can be trusted in the way that other presidents could be trusted. This is an aberration," Hostin said about Trump. For her part, Navarro boasted that she wouldn't have taken this "opportunistic" meeting. "I will never sit down with him, and I don’t think I’m gonna have to make that decision because I don’t think I’ll ever get invited," Navarro said.
"There are people who change their stripes or maybe their spots depending on who’s in power – I don’t know if that’s what happening with them. Everybody has to live with their decisions, everybody have to look in the mirror. I’m good," Navarro crowed.
Co-host Alyssa Farah tried to interject reason into the discussion. "I don’t think this is opportunistic, but I think they recognize that 75 million people voted for this guy," Farah pointed out.
For all of the hysterics of The View, the fact is that a majority of Americans who voted in the election chose Trump. Now that the election is over, some in the media are realizing they must go along to get along with Trump and their viewers.
Perhaps this is why the meeting was something the MSNBC hosts asked for. "I received a call from Joe Scarborough requesting a meeting for him and Mika, and I agreed that it would be a good thing if such meeting took place," Trump told Fox News.
"We met at Mar-a-Lago on Friday morning at 8:00," the president-elect added. For all of the vitriol spilled about Trump before the election, the 78-year-old noted the meeting was "extremely cordial" in nature.
"Many things were discussed, and I very much appreciated the fact that they wanted to have open communication. In many ways, it’s too bad that it wasn’t done long ago," Trump said.
The co-hosts of The View are angry leftwing extremists who aren't grounded in reality. Americans chose Trump, and now some in the media are attempting to be on the side of the majority while the ladies continue to rage about it.
