Ana Navarro wasn’t the one The View cohost with one thing to say about Donald Trump’s controversial press convention response to the tragic crash of a industrial airplane and a navy helicopter. On Friday’s (January 31) episode, she was joined by Pleasure Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin on the desk to speak about that very topic on the high of the hour.
“Within the wake of a nationwide tragedy like Wednesday’s deadly airplane and helicopter collision in D.C., most elected officers put politics apart, look forward to solutions, and let folks grieve. After which there’s Trump,” Behar stated earlier than rolling footage of a few of Trump’s most criticized feedback, like blaming the Federal Aviation Administration’s range in hiring initiatives and citing “frequent sense” as his proof of that connection.
“Victims have been nonetheless being taken out of the Potomac whereas he was saying this,” Behar famous earlier than turning the ground over to her colleagues.
“Properly, past the egregious and illogical bounce to DEI was the continuous and predictable lack of impulse management by somebody with the biggest mic and the biggest viewers of anybody on this planet,” Sara Haines stated first. “The 1st step in a tragedy is to mourn, to attend, for these households who don’t even know what occurred.”
“No matter occurred to ideas and prayers?” Behar questioned aloud.
“Properly, that’s solely when kids are being shot,” Navarro stated glibly.
Haines then continued, “There are folks, although, which are being notified that their family members not coming dwelling. This isn’t the time. Let’s let all that mud settle. It’s just like the wildfires after they began enjoying whereas they’re burning. Individuals are making an attempt responsible sport it. I believe Trump additionally posted quickly after this tragedy occurred, and stated that this looks like it ought to have been avoidable. The worst factor you possibly can say to somebody who simply misplaced a liked one is, with none proof, that it may have been averted. And allow us to do not forget that even essentially the most extremely educated and expert employees on this world… everybody makes errors. We don’t know why this accident occurred, and the unfastened means he speaks about it with none data is heartbreaking, disgraceful.”
Navarro then reiterated her beforehand shared factors about Trump — saying his job was to be the “consoler in chief” — and added, “If you speak about DEI and Trump, it means despicable, enraging idiocy. That’s what his DEI means.” She went on to learn an announcement shared by former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who Trump laid blame on as properly, through which he stated, “Trump ought to be main, not mendacity.”
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When it was Hostin’s flip to talk, she contended she wouldn’t “dignify” Trump’s feedback about DEI with a response, however as a substitute pointed to the explanation why he ought to be held accountable: “Simply final week, Trump fired the heads of the Transportation Safety Administration and Coast Guard, and he additionally eradicated all of the members of a key aviation safety advisory group,” she defined. “When voters determine that they need somebody to blow issues up, and so they need somebody to explode infrastructures, that is the outcome.”
Griffin obtained within the final phrase on the topic and stated, “Donald Trump acknowledged when he walked out that he nonetheless doesn’t know the reason for this, that there’s an ongoing investigation. … I believe any makes an attempt to swiftly blame Donald Trump are fallacious, and it’s much more ridiculous that he’s the president of the USA tries to level to DEI when he has no data to again that that’s, actually, what triggered this accident. It’s so tragic.”
She additionally lamented the truth that his statements have dominated the day’s media protection when there may be additionally loads to cowl concerning the day’s affirmation hearings. “Tulsi Gabbard was requested 5 occasions to say whether or not or not what Edward Snowden did was treasonous and that his determination to flee to Russia after releasing American secrets and techniques put us in peril. RFK Jr. was up in addition to Kash Patel for FBI director, and I don’t assume that this can be a technique for Donald Trump, per se, nevertheless it has this unattended consequence of individuals then not being attentive to issues which can have actual impacts on People as a result of they’re so caught up in simply the loopy of the information cycle and the way he floods the zone.”
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