During a conversation on Fox News Thursday night, host Sean Hannity told his guest, sports pundit Stephen A. Smith, that Donald Trump won't look to punish television critics.
When Donald Trump was campaigning for the presidency, he regularly talked about those in the media who he saw as his enemies and how he would punish them. And that includes the hosts of The View, who mostly have been critical of Trump and his plans.
Hannity told his guest:
"I’ve had elections that I really wanted my side to win, that they lost, and you know what, Stephen A.? I go on and I plough through and I do my job. There’s not gonna be retribution. None of the hosts of The View are gonna be taken off– I used to go on that show. They wouldn’t even allow– they wouldn’t accept a conversation with me at this point. Isn’t that pretty pathetic? Because I used to like Whoopi Goldberg. Joyless Behar, eh, she’s a little–"
Smith then weighed in:
We’ve gotten to a point where God forbid somebody has a difference of opinion and a different form of ideology, then you’re damn near the Antichrist, and that’s not what makes this country great. I mean, the reality is is that, you know, we could sit up there and we could say what we want and everybody has their different opinions about Donald Trump. You know how I felt. You knew why I didn’t vote for him. I don’t like the way he behaves. I think the presidency is a statesmanship position and I think that that level of hubris that he’s accustom to showing needs to be dialled back significantly. But having said that, the bottom line is simple. You can look at a lot of things on the right or the left.