Elisabeth Hasselbeck is just not right here for criticism of Carrie Underwood‘s determination to carry out at Donald Trump‘s inauguration. The tv character weighed in on The View co-hosts’ dialog in regards to the scenario, particularly concentrating on Pleasure Behar for her feedback about Underwood’s determination.
“That @TheView @JoyVBehar must simmer down off my pal,” Hasselbeck wrote on X on Tuesday, January 14. She adopted it up with a photograph of Behar on her Instagram Story and a quote from her rant on The View earlier that day. “JOY – Carrie Underwood is an INCREDIBLE WOMAN. You might be taught from her energy.”
Hasselbeck beforehand sat alongside Behar on The View from 2003 to 2013. Her newest feedback got here after Behar insisted that she “wouldn’t” carry out at Trump’s inauguration if she might sing herself.
That @TheView @JoyVBehar must simmer down off my pal @carrieunderwood https://t.co/SqL6kENnzk
— elisabeth hasselbeck (@ehasselbeck) January 14, 2025
“I’d not normalize him,” the 82-year-old insisted. “[Carrie] says, ‘I really like our nation.’ How do you’re keen on your nation and assist and normalize somebody who was a convicted felon who actually desires to destroy the nation, in my view? I don’t perceive the way you say you’re keen on our nation concurrently you normalize this convicted felon.”
Later, Hasselbeck appeared on Fox Information and expanded on her criticism in an interview with Sean Hannity. “I’d’ve liked to be at that desk right now,” she started. “They refuse to place anybody there who has a lick of sense on most days.”
The Survivor alum identified that even Behar’s co-host Whoopi Goldberg didn’t agree with the criticism. “If I imagine I’ve the fitting to make up my thoughts to go carry out some place, [she] has the identical proper,” Goldberg mentioned. “I’ve to assist. It doesn’t imply I’m significantly fascinated by watching.”
Hasselbeck continued, “Pleasure Behar desires us to — within the identify of, by the way in which, liberal tolerance at its finest — she desires us to imagine that Carrie Underwood, who received American Idol, by American votes … who had an album and tour known as All American Lady, who truly has spent extra time on USO excursions serving and serving to and donating cash to our nation’s best, our army and veterans, is about to carry out ‘America the Stunning’ on the historic occasion of the inauguration of the President of the US of America … she desires us to imagine that she’s un-American for doing so. It’s so ridiculous. So ridiculous.”
(Behar by no means particularly used the phrases “un-American” to explain Underwood on The View.)
Earlier this week, it was confirmed that the American Idol winner can be singing at Trump’s January 20 inauguration. After she acquired backlash for her determination, she launched a press release explaining, “I really like our nation and am honored to have been requested to sing on the inauguration and to be a small a part of this historic occasion. I’m humbled to reply the decision at a time once we should all come collectively within the spirit of unity and trying to the long run.”