“The View” co-hosts spent an entire segment Thursday trying to decide whether they can be friends with supporters of President Donald Trump.
A handful of the co-hosts decided that most Americans are good people who do not support racism even if they did vote for Trump, while co-host Sunny Hostin claimed that it is difficult to be associated with anyone who allegedly voted against people like her. Co-host Joy Behar said while she can be friends with Trump supporters, the 2024 election is an issue about “morality.”
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“I can be friends with a Trump supporter. I won’t give them a kidney, but I can be friends with them,” Behar said. “I mean, the thing about it is it’s not just about politics, it’s about morality, ethics, it’s about cruelty, it’s about discrimination, it’s about a lot of things. So those are personal human values. We’re not really just talking about [a] fiscal conservative who pays more taxes. We’re talking about you as a human being. So it’s hard to be friends with someone who signs onto something like that. On the other hand, if they’re open to discussion, I like to talk to them and find out what exactly do you know about this guy.”
Hostin accused Trump of opposing the elderly, children, government employees and racial minorities, despite the president having made record-high inroads with black and Hispanic men along with blue collar workers in the 2024 election. She accused Hispanic men, without evidence, in November of voting against former Vice President Kamala Harris because she is a woman.
Panelist Sara Haines suggested that Trump voters supported him because they got their news from sources that gave him positive coverage.
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“When you go into [Trump voters] bubbles and you see the coverage they’re watching and the families and their churches, they’re not voting on this awful human being that you’re seeing over here, they’re voting on the way it’s captured with their own beliefs,” Haines said.
Behar further argued that most supporters of Trump are morally upstanding people with empathy for others, while former Trump administration official and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin and Haines said there are good and bad people on both sides of the political aisle.
“I think that basic people are good. I do, I believe Americans are basically good people and have empathy,” Behar said. “Like right now, didn’t we read something about how [Trump] doesn’t want Ukrainians who have citizenship to retain that. I think that’s something that people can relate to and say ‘you know, I feel bad for these people.’ No matter how you vote, empathy is again, a human emotion and if you don’t have it, you really need to see a shrink.”
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“And there are crappy people of every political [side],” Haines added.
Trump became the first Republican nominee to win Hispanic men in a presidential election, earning 55% of support among that voter block in an NBC News exit poll. He also made history by becoming the first Republican to win Starr County, Texas, since 1892 with over 57% of the vote, which has a 97% Hispanic population.
Democratic lawmakers refused to stand or applaud for Trump’s special guests during his Tuesday night address to Congress, including a 13-year-old brain cancer patient who was awarded a Secret Service badge in honor of his dreams of becoming a police officer. The president honored 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray and 22-year-old Laken Riley, who were both murdered by illegal immigrants, with their mothers in attendance.
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