I initially wanted to write this comment to say don't engage. I am a firm believer that this should not be a topic of conversation for work beyond funding implications, making the whole meeting a bit of a faux pas. There's a good chance you could just say nothing and no one would notice.

That said - I've read a lot of articles recently which analyze how the polls missed so badly. Of course, there's a lot of ideas on why, but one that stood out talked about the fact that we only talk about politics with those we already agree with. This goes both ways - Republicans never hear about why Democrats don't like Trump, and vice versa with Hillary. When we do talk, it is almost always presented as an attack on the other. The article concluded that if we just talked and were willing to learn that such extreme views would've killed the Trump campaign before it started.

So on one hand I'm tempted to tell you to try to have a conversation about why you voted as you did. Don't just educate them, but allow yourself to be educated.

That said - and I say this as someone who voted for Hillary and is, in general, outspokenly left leaning - the amount of tongue biting and pandering I have had to do just to have a conversation about understanding and deescalating rhetoric with people makes me think that such a conversation may not be possible yet. Right now I think people still just want to be mad.