Ex-CNN reporter says she is ‘haunted’ after having dinner with ‘closeted’ Trump supporters who seemed ‘normal’

A former CNN reporter took to social media on Sunday to share how she is “haunted” by a dinner with several Donald Trump supporters who seemed “normal” at first glance.

“They were all well educated and had successful careers,” Michelle Kosinski recalled of the recent dinner party she described on X.

‘They seemed great! On the surface. For about an hour, the former NBC News correspondent continued, categorizing the Trump-leaning guests as “closeted.”

“But slowly, after a few drinks, they started to unleash their true MAGA nature.”

The 50-year-old, who served as CNN’s White House correspondent until 2020, added that she was surprised by the revelation and marveled at how a “normal” group of people could support a politician they don’t approve of.

The 50-year-old, who served as CNN’s White House correspondent until 2020, added that she was surprised by the revelation and marveled at how a “normal” group of people could support a politician they don’t like. She is seen here with her husband Kimbell Duncan and the Obamas in a photo from her stint as a WH correspondent

She then provided personal information about the party guests, along with some of their children

“One of the couples each attended top Ivy League colleges,” the former CNN employee wrote in a thread that has since been viewed three million times.

“But now that it was college time for their own children, they absolutely did NOT let them apply to Ivy.

“And we were weird in explaining why. Although the children were double legacies. Okay, moving on…’

Focusing on the topic likely related to the recent protests over the current conflict in Gaza, Kosinski turned to the next group of non-progressive principles.

“The next shift suddenly burst out with air quotes when they were talking about climate change,” the former senior diplomatic correspondent for the famously left-wing CNN recalled.

“Again, these are otherwise smart people,” she added, insinuating that the millions of Americans who support the current Republican Party frontrunner have below-average intelligence.

“They’re clearly not scientists,” she snapped. ‘But educated. And the guy took umbrage when my friend mentioned the damage Trump had done and promised he would continue to do so.”

“The others,” she added, “when they realized that a few in their presence were armed with (gasp) actual facts (NO!) – quickly changed the subject.

‘[They] They nervously said they didn’t want to talk about politics,” the journalist recalled, adding of her colleagues: “They realized they would be eviscerated on all the idiotic points, especially in the field of economics. ‘

“My friends and I realized we were surrounded by otherwise carefully confined MAGAts,” she eventually concluded – before describing how the so-called “ordeal” has already left an emotional toll.

“It’s funny how extremist or just plain wrong beliefs can’t help but leak out even when you least expect them, and from people you least expect. They’re out there.’

‘This dinner continues to haunt me. They all seemed so… normal.”

Many were quick to mock the anecdote, pointing out the political writer’s reluctance to accept other schools of thought as legitimate, as well as her desire not to associate with those particular views.

Kosinski, most recently the host of a left-wing podcast, has 65.5k followers on X, with whom she regularly shares anti-Trump content

Donald Trump is seen leaving Trump Tower on Monday on his way to court in Manhattan

Commentators were quick to hone in on the outspoken progressive’s apparent desire to put Trump supporters through a process — popularized by several regimes — known as “re-education.”

‘[They] Nervously said they didn’t want to talk about politics,” the journalist recalled, adding of her fellow diners: “They realized they would be eviscerated on all the idiotic points, especially on the economy ‘

“Damn it, to be haunted by conversations with people you don’t agree with. You have my sympathy,” one such user wrote in a post that has been posted more than 1,500 times.

Jokingly, he said, “This dinner is still haunting me,” someone else snapped. “You desperately need to connect with people outside your bubble when differing views “haunt” you.

Someone else added: ‘You live in your bubble.

‘People are tired of self-righteous ‘progressives’. Freedom of thought precedes freedom of expression.’

Mark Hemingway of Real Clear Investigations, meanwhile, pointed out how mortgage rates have tripled after three years of Joe Biden.

‘It is truly astonishing how at a time when mortgage rates have almost tripled in three years, overall consumer prices have increased by 20 percent (25 percent for food), and the Russian war in Eastern Europe and the entire Middle East is a powder keg. – the answer is: “MAGAs don’t know the facts!”‘

Others online were quick to mock the outspoken progressive’s presumptuous anecdote

Others played on the outspoken progressive’s apparent desire to guide Trump supporters through a process popularized by regimes known as “reeducation.”

“If people never talk about these things as friends and neighbors, and live only in their own distorted information silos, how will they ever learn what is true or false?” reads a message from Koinski in the same threat.

“How will the truth ever make them consider alternatives? The appeal of nonsense is to co-opt decent minds.”

Kosinski, most recently the host of a left-wing podcast, has 65.5 thousand followers on X, with whom she regularly shares anti-Trump content.

In a post published in December 2016, she is seen during her stint as a CNN White House correspondent with her husband and the Obamas.

She has yet to write a follow-up to her series of posts about the dinner.