Podcaster Megyn Kelly believes President Donald Trump was absolutely correct to walk out of his interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker.
Kelly and Trump aren’t always on the same page, but that doesn’t mean she disagrees with everything he does, like some members of the media. To the contrary, she believes that his recent decision to storm off the set of an NBC interview was the right one, after the host attempted to make the moment about herself.
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“I don’t blame him. I got to be honest, I don’t blame him,” Kelly said, after airing the tense clip of Trump growing irate with Welker and leaving the interview. “He sat there with her for quite some time. Reportedly, they were together for an hour. And the problem for Kristen Welker is, she made that moment about Kristin Welker, and about the vaunted reputation of NBC News.”
“When you are interviewing the President of the United States, especially Donald Trump, you are going to have to give him a little. You got to give him something,” Kelly advised. “There’s a back and forth in an interview where you can’t just keep battering him over the head at every turn. Look at that exchange. He says, ‘Is it inappropriate,’ they’re talking about California, ‘to have an election and 5 days later they’re nowhere close to picking?’ She says, ‘State and local officials acknowledge they’re slow. They’re urging the votes to be counted quickly.’ He says, ‘No, they’re crooked.'”
“‘That’s how they vote in California,’ she says. Now, why wouldn’t you, as the news anchor, give him that f**king point? I’m sorry, why wouldn’t you say, ‘I understand, it does undermine the confidence for many.’ That is such a gimme. Give him that,” the SiriusXM host continued. “Instead, she’s got to take every point on because, you know, otherwise, you’re an election denier.”
“The whole thing was very antagonistic,” Kelly noted later. “So, if you watch the whole thing, there was a lot of this prior to the moment we just showed you. And I honestly, by the time he got up and walked, I didn’t blame him, and I wasn’t surprised. She was rude.”
She also mocked Welker’s “desperate” attempt to get the president to stay.
“‘I flew all the way to Wisconsin.’ Who gives a s**t. No one cares. You got on a plane. Oh, boohoo. You have one hour of television you have to do a week. No one cares you had to fly to Wisconsin. ‘Please, Mr. President.’ You’re so desperate to save the interview, why don’t you treat him more respectfully as it goes on? And there’s a way of challenging him without being so whiny and nasty. Work on that. Try to be a little bit more likable. Try to telegraph to the president that you don’t hate him, and you don’t think everything he’s saying is a bunch of nonsense. No, you wanted to perform for your audience. You had to perform for them, for your bosses at NBC. That’s why he got up and walked out, which you deserved.”
“And I’m sorry to hear that you’re allegedly getting another interview, because you don’t deserve that.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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