President-elect Donald Trump was slated to sit down Monday with two executives from Univision, one of the several news networks with whom he infamously feuded throughout the 2016 campaign.
Trump will meet with Univision President and CEO Randy Falco and Univision Chief News, Entertainment and Digital Officer Isaac Lee, his transition team said Monday morning on its daily conference call.
The transition team didn't discuss the topics that will be covered in the meetings.
Trump, however, has held in recent weeks an array of meetings inside Trump Tower with other media executives, including a November session with more than a dozen high-profile journalists and honchos like including CNN President Jeff Zucker, NBC News President Deborah Turness and Fox News Channel Co-presidents Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy.
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Trump endured a particularly fractious relationship with Univision throughout the campaign. The months-long quarrel kicked off with an August 2015 incident during which Trump booted Jorge Ramos, the Spanish language network's best known anchor, from a rally.
Trump will meet with Univision President and CEO Randy Falco (pictured).
(Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Walter Kaitz)During an Iowa press conference, Ramos was asking Trump about his immigration platform when the GOP nominee barked, "Sit down. Sit down ... Go back to Univision!"
A suited security guard then marched Ramos out of the room.
Univision Chief News, Entertainment and Digital Officer Isaac Lee (pictured) will meet with Trump.
(Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for Variety)Monday's meeting between Trump and the Univision duo could also serve as a kind of outreach to the Latino community — whom Trump repeatedly insulted during his campaign.
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But Univision has itself struggled in the weeks since Trump's win.
In a Buzzfeed article published Sunday, titled "Why President Trump Is 'A Nightmare For Univision,'" network executives said the news company was "wholly unprepared" for a Trump presidency, having gone "all-in on a Hillary Clinton victory."
Univision lost nearly half of its primetime audience since 2013 the Los Angeles Times reported last week.
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