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Trump to meet with one of his biggest critics: Mitt Romney


On Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump will sit down with one of his harshest critics and get his insight on the presidency.

Trump's transition team announced Friday that the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate will meet with Trump in Bedminster, N.J., Saturday. Trump will be at his golf course throughout the weekend, conducting meetings.

What exactly does this meeting mean?

"I think what that meeting suggests, and the meetings you’ve seen over past couple of days, is the president-elect wants the best and brightest people to put this country forward: people who supported him, people who didn’t support him,"Sean Spicer, a spokesman for the presidential transition told reporters Friday. Spicer said that most conversations start out with Trump soliciting opinions and thoughts, and as the conversation progresses he may or may not consider them for a post. The "conversation with Mitt Romney is just that: an opportunity to hear his ideas and his thoughts."

Romney and Trump have had a contentious relationship with Trump calling him "a choker" for losing the 2012 election, and Romney frequently blasting Trump as a "fraud."

"His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University," Romney said in March.