The harpies of The View struggled to wrap their minds around the fact that Donald Trump is once again the President of the United States.
On Tuesday, the co-hosts could scarcely bring themselves to admit that Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president the day before.
Co-hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin even confessed they didn’t watch the inauguration ceremony or Trump’s inaugural speech.
Joy Behar, however, said she did watch the proceedings because she has a “certain masochistic streak.”
“What better way to unify the country than ripping families apart and punishing anyone who doesn’t fall in line? So, I watched the whole thing because I have a certain masochistic streak in me,” Behar said.
Co-host Sarah Haines said she just watch Trump’s speech: “I watched it, just the speech part. A lot of the revelry, it was hard because this is not someone I voted for, so I didn’t feel like sitting around and watching it.”
“But the speech itself, I remember when it was done, my first reaction was, you know, ‘what is this country he speak of?’ Because I immediately couldn’t reconcile the way I see the country and the people and how it is right now and where he saw it. He didn’t say carnage, but he said carnage pretty much in everything else … I just kind of felt this dark feeling and then he had this kind of martyr-like, ‘you guys are downtrodden and almost irreparable’ … It had this God-like complex without any Jesus qualities.”
Hostin said she didn’t watch the inauguration because she wanted “to protect [her] peace,” and called the 47th president a “DEI hire.”
“You’re talking about a man who didn’t become the President of the United States because of merit. He had no political experience, he had no business experience. He was given everything he has. He is a legacy hire, he is a DEI hire, a ‘didn’t earn it’ hire,” Hostin said.
Navarro said she’ll pray for America as Trump retakes the Oval Office.
“I was in Guatemala. I was there for a funeral which reminded me how frail life is and not to waste time on doing things that bring you no joy and make you infuriated, like watching his swearing-in,” Navarro said.
“So I didn’t watch a single second of it. I did read the speech and I read a lot about it and I saw pictures. And as I was reading the speech as I was coming back, first of all, I’m gonna pray for America. I’m also going to say, you know, he calls himself a peacemaker. He wants to invade Panama, people!”
But co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin reminded that panel that Trump was elected to a second term with a sweeping mandate — having won all 7 swing states and the popular vote — and that they must accept he’s now part of the fabric of American culture.
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