‘The View’ Brushes Off Donald Trump’s Al Smith Insults: “Such An Enjoyable Thing To Live Rent-Free In His Head”
deadline.comLast night at the Alfred E. Smith Catholic charity dinner in New York, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rattled off a roster of grievances and talking points in the guise of jokes that even he didn’t think were particularly funny (he seemed to admit as much on Fox & Friends today), and one of his targets was ABC’s The View. “That stupid show The View is so bad now the other day I was watching it and thinking you know what?
They really need to bring Rosie O’Donnell back,” Trump said last night. “That show is bad. Those people are bad. I know every one of them and they are bad news I want to tell you.
And it doesn’t do very well either. Ratings are very important and it doesn’t do very well.” Naturally, The View aired the not-very-funny clip during today’s Hot Topics segment, with cohost Joy Behar immediately doing an imitation of a slurring, low-energy Trump before the other panelists had their say.
They started with Trump’s assertion that he knows “every one of them.” (Whoopi Goldberg had her usual Friday off today). “I’ve lived 52 years,” said Ana Navarro, fervently and mock-angrily disputing any connection to the former president. “I’ve lived 44 years in this country.
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