For weeks, the women of “The View” 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 MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski and Trump.
Co-host Sunny Hostin said Trump can’t be trusted while intimating neither can Scarborough or Brzezinski, per Mediaite.
“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 truth and to be able to cover a story,” Hostin said. “So maybe they’re not journalists in the true sense. Maybe they’re saying that they’re opinion journalists, but we have to remember that Trump is the guy who ushered in the era of fake news.”
The two met with Trump on Friday at his Florida estate, The Hill reported.
“We didn’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so,” Scarborough said on “Morning Joe” Monday morning.
“What we did agree on was to restart communications,” Brzezinski added.
“The View” co-host Ana Navarro concurred with Hostin.
“I will never sit with him,” Navarro said.
“I think there’s a lot of people who are probably looking at what Joe and Mika did and find it opportunistic,” Navarro said. “There are people who change their stripes, or maybe their spots, I should say, today, depending on who is in power and what benefits them.”
“I don’t know that that’s what they are doing, and to me, it’s a to-be-determined situation, because right now, it’s the transition. We don’t know what he’s going to do as president,” she added. “We don’t know what they’re 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. I’m good.”
Meanwhile, co-hosts Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin said Scarborough and Brzezinski were right in meeting with Trump.
“You have the conversations or nothing happens,” Haines said.
“I don’t think this is opportunistic, but I think they recognize that 75 million people voted for this guy,” Griffin added. “He will be in power, short of something like an impeachment, for the next four years.”
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg was more reticent about taking sides.
“I’m going to wait and see what I’m dealing with, as I’ve said since the election, because I don’t know,” Goldberg said. “I’m going to wait. I’m going to have some popcorn, and when I have something to say, I will say it.”
Brzezinski said the meeting was fruitful, per The Hill.
“In this meeting, he was upbeat, cheerful and he seemed interested in finding common ground on some of the most divisive issues,” Brzezinski said.
“For those asking why we would go speak with the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us,” she continued. “I guess I would ask back: ‘Why wouldn’t we?’”
