For weeks, the women of âThe Viewâ were united in their vote against President-elect Donald Trump in the Nov. 5 election.
That all changed on Monday when the panel broke ranks in their opinions of a meeting between MSNBCâs Joe Scarboroughand Mika Brzezinski and Trump.
Co-host Sunny Hostin said Trump canât be trusted while intimating neither can Scarborough or Brzezinski, per Mediaite.
âI donât think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and to be able to cover a story,â Hostin said. âSo maybe theyâre not journalists in the true sense. Maybe theyâre saying that theyâre opinion journalists, but we have to remember that Trump is the guy who ushered in the era of fake news.â
The two met with Trump on Friday at his Florida estate, The Hill reported.
âWe didnât see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so,â Scarborough said on âMorning Joeâ Monday morning.
âWhat we did agree on was to restart communications,â Brzezinski added.
âThe Viewâ co-host Ana Navarro concurred with Hostin.
âI will never sit with him,â Navarro said.
âI think thereâs a lot of people who are probably looking at what Joe and Mika did and find it opportunistic,â Navarro said. âThere are people who change their stripes, or maybe their spots, I should say, today, depending on who is in power and what benefits them.â
âI donât know that thatâs what they are doing, and to me, itâs a to-be-determined situation, because right now, itâs the transition. We donât know what heâs going to do as president,â she added. âWe donât know what theyâre going to do if he commits abuses of power as president. So, you know, everybody has to live with their decision. Everybody has to look at themselves in the mirror. Iâm good.â
Meanwhile, co-hosts Sara Hainesand Alyssa Farah Griffin said Scarborough and Brzezinski were right in meeting with Trump.
âYou have the conversations or nothing happens,â Haines said.
âI donât think this is opportunistic, but I think they recognize that 75 million people voted for this guy,â Griffin added. âHe will be in power, short of something like an impeachment, for the next four years.â
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg was more reticent about taking sides.
âIâm going to wait and see what Iâm dealing with, as Iâve said since the election, because I donât know,âGoldberg said. âIâm going to wait. Iâm going to have some popcorn, and when I have something to say, I will say it.â
Brzezinski said the meeting was fruitful, per The Hill.
âIn this meeting, he was upbeat, cheerful and he seemed interested in finding common ground on some of the most divisive issues,â Brzezinski said.
âFor those asking why we would go speak with the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us,â she continued. âI guess I would ask back: âWhy wouldnât we?ââ
