Opening the door to probably constructive conversations or merely “kissing the ring” of the person who known as new media the “enemy from inside?”
This morning’s announcement by Morning Joe‘s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that they met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday in an try and restart communications with the president-elect after seven years of bitter feuding and silence drew some heated and, not surprisingly, differing opinions on right now’s The View.
Whereas cohosts Sara Haines and Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin praised the Morning Joe détente as a welcome first step, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro – two of the fiercer Trump critics on the ABC daytime talker – had some harsher phrases.
“The underside line,” stated Hostin, “is that America wants a free press that’s keen to talk fact to energy proper now greater than ever. I believe we now have to be very clear on it after we take into consideration the president-elect and canopy the president elect and I don’t assume that you must sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to have the ability to communicate fact and be capable of cowl a narrative.”
Hostin conceded that Scarborough and Brzezinski are “not journalists within the true sense” however somewhat “opinion journalists,” however added, “It’s important to keep in mind that Trump is the man who ushered within the period of pretend information, he’s the man who ushered in various details, he’s the man who attacked three black feminine journalists, he’s the man who revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials for asking a query…I don’t assume he might be trusted in the best way that different presidents might be trusted. That is an aberration.”
Navarro, a By no means-Trump Republican and considered one of his staunchest critics, was much more blistering than Hostin concerning the president-elect and the press.
“In 2016 folks voted for the unknown and voted pondering that perhaps the gravitas of the workplace was going to alter him,” Navarro stated. “In 2024 folks voted figuring out who he was and nothing that he’s doing, as regarding as I discover it and as disturbing as I discover it, ought to be stunning as a result of he advised us he was going to do this stuff, he was surrounded by the folks he’s appointing. And he’s preserving to his phrase and other people voted for him figuring out that.
“It’s a sobering fact,” she continued, “and arduous to reconcile with what we [on The View] have been doing for the final eight years.. I’ll by no means sit down with him and I don’t assume I’m gonna must make that call as a result of I don’t assume I’ll ever get invited.
“The reality of the matter is, as we all know round this desk, that it’s arduous to criticize and denounce the abuses of energy by Donald trump when he’s president. We now have been there earlier than – it means threats, it means dying threats, it means retribution towards your loved ones, it means loopy issues exhibiting up at your home, it means lawsuits, it means all kinds of issues. We’ve achieved it earlier than and if we now have to do it once more we are going to achieve this once more..
“I believe,” she continued, “there are in all probability lots of people what Joe and Mika did and discover it opportunistic. There are individuals who change their stripes or perhaps their spots relying on who’s in energy – I don’t know if that’s what occurring with them. All people has to reside with their choices, all people must look within the mirror. I’m good.”
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, additionally a fervid critic of, as she calls him, “You Know Who,” stated she’s taking a wait and see strategy. “I’m going to attend to see what I’m coping with …I’m going to have some popcorn and if I’ve one thing to say I’ll say it. To foretell what we’re going to do is unattainable to say. I wish to see what we’re up towards, I wish to see what’s going to occur.”
After the Sizzling Matter dialogue about Morning Joe, the panel pivoted to latest feedback made by Invoice Maher concerning the Left’s incapability to view the election outcomes via any lens however race and gender, somewhat than the financial system.
Whereas Griffin supported the notion that voters had been motivated by financial components, Hostin and Navarro pointedly had points with the remark. “Racism and misogyny are alive and nicely, I believe we don’t wish to assume that about our neighbors,” Hostin stated, whereas Navarro, saying that she personally like Maher and has been a visitor on his present, famous that “perhaps if you reside life as a lady of shade you are feeling [racism and sexism] a bit of bit greater than if you find yourself white man in America.”
“In case you are not seeing racism and sexism in America,” Navarro stated, “then that you must clear your lenses.”
