Joy Behar and ‘The View’ Hosts Criticize Trump’s Inauguration Speech for ‘Godlike Complex’: ‘If He’s Sending All Criminals Away, Where Is He Going?’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director “The View” hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Anna Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin appeared on the Jan.

21 episode of the ABC daytime talk show to discuss Donald Trump‘s presidential inauguration (Whoopi Goldberg is out this week due to a previously planned work commitment).

The four women took issue with Trump’s polarizing inauguration speech, in which he said it will now be government policy that there are only two genders (male and female) and declared a “national emergency at the southern border” to return “millions of criminal aliens back to the place where they came from.” “If he’s sending all the criminals away, where is he going?” Behar asked, acknowledging Trump’s own recent convictions. “And what better way to unify the country than by ripping families apart and punishing anyone who doesn’t fall in line.” Hostin told her co-hosts that she “decided to protect my peace and celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

Day” instead of watching Trump’s inauguration. “The one thing I did think about was the hypocrisy of having a man be inaugurated to be president on the same day as we commemorate MLK,” Hostin added, “and that same man saying that he was going to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion.