Goldberg, 69, set off the 52-year-old anti-Trump GOP strategist after suggesting that viewers should spend the holidays and the six-weeks before Inauguration Day with their families or working – but not in a frenzy over the incoming administration.

The back-and-forth came after Trump's Meet the Press interview, in which he talked about him likely pardoning people who were convicted of crimes related to the January 6th insurrection.