'Trump fans, normal? Imagine!' Ex-CNN reporter is eviscerated for revealing she was 'haunted' by dinner with 'closet MAGA' fans who 'seemed ordinary'

A former CNN reporter who took to social media to moan about being 'haunted' by a dinner with Donald Trump supporters who 'seemed normal' at first has been eviscerated in the replies.

Michelle Kosinski, 50, was blasted over her 'total lack of self-awareness' after she tore into the 'closet MAGA fans' for supporting a different ideology to her own.

'All were well-educated and successful in careers,' Michelle Kosinski recalled of the recent dinner party that she described on X. 'They seemed great! On the surface. For like an hour.'

Her remarks have now sparked a furious backlash, including by conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren.

'This whole thread is so embarrassing…for YOU,' Fox host Lahren wrote on X. 'Get out of your liberal la la land, take off the mask and come up for air. Trump Derangement Syndrome. Get help.' 

Former CNN reporter Michelle Kosinski took to social media Sunday to talk about how she is 'haunted' by a dinner with several Donald Trump supporters

The 50-year-old who served as CNN's White House Correspondent until 2020 went on to add how she was surprised by the revelation. She is seen here with her husband Kimbell Duncan and the Obamas in a photo from her stint as WH correspondent

But her comments were met with a backlash online as many accused her of demonizing those with differing political views

Others were equally unimpressed as they accused Kosinski of demonizing those with differing political views.

'By all means, don't let your oversized ego blind you to thinking you're the arbiter of truth,' one X user wrote. 

'Framing their opinions in this way is not helpful,' another user admonished her. 

'People can be intelligent, moral and cogent but disagree with you. The partisanship we see enables this, and both sides are guilty of feeding this. Condescension does not help.'

While one user simply  wrote, 'self awareness zero' in sentiments echoed by many in the thread.

For her part the broadcaster remained unfazed, writing back on Tuesday: 'MAGAs TRIGGERED! Must be fixin’ for the Boogaloo. Or was it the Rapture? The civil war? Somethin’ violent.'

Kosinski, who served as CNN's White House Correspondent until 2020 sparked the back and forth with her thread marveling at how a 'normal' a group of people could support a politician she does not approve of.

She proceeded to provide personal details about the party guests, along with some of their children

'One of the couples each attended top Ivy League colleges,' the former CNN staffer wrote in a thread that has since been viewed 3million times.

'But now that it was university time for their own kids, they were adamantly NOT letting them apply to any ivies.

'And were weird about explaining why. Though the kids were double legacies. Okayyy... moving on...'

Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren waded into the thread to brand Kosinski's comments, 'embarrassing'

Kosinski's comments saw her accused of having an 'oversized ego' in outraged replies on X. Pictured: Trump greets the crowd  before a campaign rally in Freeland, Michigan on May 1

Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on May 01, 2024 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. May 1, 2024

Pivoting from the subject likely linked to recent protests over the current conflict in Gaza, Kosinski turned to the next group of non-progressive principles. 

'The next crew suddenly busted out with air quotes when mentioning climate change,' the onetime Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for famously left-leaning CNN recalled.

'Again, these are otherwise smart people,' she added, insinuating that the millions of Americans who support the current GOP frontrunner are of below-average intelligence.

'Not scientists, clearly,' she sniped. 'But educated. And the dude took seething umbrage when my friend mentioned the damage Trump had done and vowed to continue to do.'

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

'[They] nervously said they don't want to talk politics,' the journalist remembered, adding of her fellow diners: 'They realized they would be eviscerated on all idiotic points, especially on the economy.'

'My friends and I realized we were surrounded by otherwise carefully closeted MAGAts,' she eventually concluded - before describing how the supposed 'ordeal' has already left an emotional toll.

Kosinski, most recently the host of a left-leaning podcast, has 65.5K 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

Commenters were quick to hone in on the outspoken progressive's apparent desire to put Trump supporters through a process - made popular by several regimes - known as 'reeducation'

'[They] nervously said they don't want to talk politics,' the journalist remembered, adding of her fellow diners: 'They realized they would be eviscerated on all idiotic points, especially on the economy'

'It's funny how the extremist or just wrong beliefs can't help but leak out, even when you least expect them, and from people you least expect. They are 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 hesitance to accept other schools of thought as legitimate, as well as her desire to not socialize with those sporting particular views. 

'Damn, to be haunted by conversations with those you disagree. You have my sympathy,' wrote one such user, in a post that has been like more than 1,500 times. 

Jokingly parroting he "This dinner continues to haunt me", someone else sniped" 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 self-righteous “progressives” freedom of thought precedes freedom of speech.' 

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

'It is truly amazing how at a time when mortgage rates have close to tripled in three years, overall consumer prices are up 20 percent (25 for food), and Russia's at war in Eastern Europe and the entire Middle East is a powder keg -- the response is "MAGAs don't know facts!"' 

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

Others honed in on the outspoken progressive's apparent desire to put Trump supporters through a process made popular by regimes known as 'reeducation.'

'If people don't ever talk about these things as friends and neighbors, and only live in their own warped information silos, how will they ever learn what is true or false?' a post from Koinski in the same threat reads.  

'How will the truth ever make them consider alternatives? The allure of bullsh*t is co-opting decent minds.'

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

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

Kosinski previously attracted ridicule when she was caught out exaggerating the extent of flooding while a rookie reporter for NBC.

The incident, that would later be dubbed 'Canoe-gate', took place on October 14 2005 when the new and up-and-coming correspondent was reporting live about flooding in Wayne, New Jersey.  

A clip shows Kosinski canoeing through floodwater telling viewers how 'deep' it is before she is rumbled when two men stroll casually through the ankle-deep water. 

Kosinski previously attracted ridicule when she was caught out exaggerating the extent of flooding while a rookie reporter for NBC 

The incident, dubbed 'Canoe-gate', took place on October 14 2005 when the new and up-and-coming NBC News correspondent was reporting live in Wayne, New Jersey. It shows Kosinski canoeing through floodwater when two men stroll casually through the ankle-deep water

Kosinski found herself in hot water again decades later when the UK's former ambassador to the US was investigated over suspicions he passed White House secrets to her during an affair.

Suspicions were raised among US officials after a series of articles by Kosinski detailed highly-sensitive insider information about the Trump administration.