Former CNN reporter says she is ‘haunted’ after dining with ‘closet’ Trump supporters who seemed ‘normal’

A former CNN reporter took to social media Sunday to talk about how she’s “obsessed” by a dinner with several Donald Trump supporters who, at first glance, seemed “normal.”

“They were all well-educated and successful in their careers,” Michelle Kosinski recalled of the recent dinner she described in X.

They looked great! On the surface. For about an hour,’ the former NBC News correspondent continued, categorizing the pro-Trump guests as ‘locked in.’

“But little by little, over a few drinks, they began to let their true MAGA nature escape.”

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

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

He proceeded to provide personal details of the party guests, along with some of his children.

“One of the couples attended top Ivy League universities,” the former CNN employee wrote in a thread that has since been viewed 3 million times.

‘But now that it was college time for their own children, they were flat out NOT allowing them to apply for any Ivies.

And they were weird about explaining why. Although the children were a double legacy. Okay…we move on…’

Moving on from the topic likely linked to recent protests over the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Kosinski moved on to the next set of non-progressive principles.

“The next team suddenly broke out into air quotes by mentioning climate change,” recalled the former chief diplomatic correspondent for the famously left-leaning CNN.

“Once again, these are smart people,” he added, suggesting that the millions of Americans who support the current GOP front-runner are of below-average intelligence.

“They’re clearly not scientists,” she snapped. ‘But polite. And the guy got really outraged when my friend mentioned the damage Trump had caused and promised to keep doing it.

‘The others,’ he added, ‘when they realized that some in their presence came armed with (gasp) real facts (NOT!), quickly changed the subject.

‘[They] “They nervously said they didn’t want to talk politics,” the journalist recalled, adding of her dinner companions: “They realized they would be gutted on all the idiotic points, especially the economy.”

“My friends and I realized that we were surrounded by MAGAts who would otherwise be carefully locked away,” he finally concluded, before describing how the so-called “experience” has already taken an emotional toll.

‘It’s funny how extremist or simply erroneous beliefs can’t help but seep in, even when you least expect it and from the people you least expect it. They’re out there.’

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

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

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

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

Commentators were quick to focus on the progressive’s apparent desire to subject Trump supporters to a process, popularized by several regimes, known as “re-education.”

‘[They] “They nervously said they didn’t want to talk politics,” the journalist recalled, adding of her dinner companions: “They realized they would be gutted on all the idiotic points, especially the economy.”

‘Damn it, feeling tormented by conversations with those you disagree with. You have my sympathy,” wrote one of those users, in a publication that received more than 1,500 likes.

Jokingly parroting, “This dinner party continues to haunt me,” someone else said, “You desperately need to engage with people outside your bubble if divergent views “haunt you.”

Someone else added: “You live in your bubble.”

‘People are fed up with the freedom of thought of moralistic ‘progressives’ that precedes freedom of speech.’

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

“It’s really amazing how at a time when mortgage rates have nearly tripled in three years, overall consumer prices are up 20 percent (25 percent for food), and Russia’s war in Eastern Europe and the entire Middle East is a tinderbox – the answer is “MAGAs don’t know the facts!”‘

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

Others focused on the progressive’s apparent desire to subject Trump supporters to a process popularized by regimes known as “re-education.”

“If people never talk about these things as friends and neighbors, and just live in their own twisted information silos, how will they ever know what’s true or false?” reads a post by Koinski in the same threat.

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

Kosinski, who recently hosted a left-leaning podcast, has 65.5k followers on X, with whom he regularly shares anti-Trump content.

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

He has yet to write a continuation of his dinner series of posts.