New host Kristen Welker took a virtual barrage of hatred over her maiden voyage at the helm of “Meet the Press” — and the cohosts of ABC’s “The View” used Monday’s broadcast to join the pile-on.
The hate stemmed from the fact that Welker’s first show featured a one-on-one interview with former President Donald Trump — which prompted a number of leftists to call for a boycott of the interview and even of Welker’s show going forward.
Regular cohost Ana Navarro appeared to take a similar position on Monday morning, complaining that when Trump was being interviewed, nobody ever won.
Navarro began by touting Welker’s accomplishment, taking over the longest-running political show on television and being the first woman of color to do so — and she noted that Welker had gone out of her way to thank the women who had come before her to make that possible.
But then she turned on the host o …