The ladies of “The View” had lots to say Friday about Donald Trump’s jabs at their present.
The previous president attended the annual Al Smith charity dinner Thursday in New York and roasted his critics, to combined outcomes. Throughout his speech, he name-dropped “The View” in a self-aware joke about his longstanding feud with former co-host Rosie O’Donnell.
“The stupid show ‘The View’ is so bad now that the other day I was watching it and thinking to myself, ’You know what? They really need to bring Rosie O’Donnell back,” he joked on the gala, including: “Those people are bad. I know every one of them and they are bad news.”
The present “doesn’t do very well, either,” he continued, including that “ratings are very important.”
Co-host Pleasure Behar launched the section on Trump, claiming after airing a clip of Trump on the dinner that the previous actuality star has “met all of us.”
Fellow panelist Ana Navarro jumped in.
“Hell no!” Navarro exclaimed. “He has never met me. No, no, no, no. I don’t know what the hell you’re reading but I gotta tell you, I’ve lived 52 years, I’ve lived 44 years in this country, [and] I have never shaken that man’s hand, given him a kiss … and I never voted for him.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin famous that the one time she’s seen Trump in individual was throughout his prison trial in New York, whereas co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White Home communications director underneath Trump, decried his joke in regards to the present’s supposedly poor scores.
(Regardless of his claims on the gala, “The View” is persistently one of many highest-rated whole daytime discuss exhibits, and reportedly courted practically 2.6 million viewers for the week of Oct. 7, when it aired its most-watched telecast since 2021 by interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris.)
Griffin additionally “cracked up” when Trump claimed he didn’t know her.
“He never met me — despite that I worked for him,” she stated.
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Griffin, who beforehand shared she resigned from his administration in 2020 “because I saw where this was heading,” stated Trump’s confusion about her suggests “he’s slowing down,” echoing Harris’ claims and different stories that the 78-year-old might not be bodily match to run for workplace.
Hostin, although, discovered an upside to Trump’s assault.
“Isn’t it such an enjoyable thing to live rent-free in his head?” she stated Friday.
