It was a Tremendous Bowl-themed affair on The View for Friday’s (February 7) episode. Whereas Whoopi Goldberg solely wore purple to honor Coronary heart Consciousness Month — a reality she made certain to make clear on the outset — the opposite cohosts all bought into the spirit of the event with team-themed gear. Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and Alyssa Farah Griffin all donned Kansas Metropolis Chiefs sweaters, whereas Sunny Hostin rocked a Philadelphia Eagles vest. Plus, the studio was backdropped with New Orleans decor in honor of the placement for this 12 months’s video games.
It wasn’t simply the outfits and ambiance that made it a soccer Friday, although. The primary “Sizzling Subjects” of the day had been additionally very targeted on information surrounding the NFL’s largest day. They began with a dialogue in regards to the league’s resolution to take away “Finish Racism” from the tip zones earlier than the Tremendous Bowl and whether or not it does or doesn’t relate to Donald Trump‘s resolution to attend the sport — a primary for a sitting president — on Sunday. A lot of the panelists agreed that the brand new verbiage “Select Love” may very well be extra inclusive and selected to not get too wound up in regards to the transfer.
Then, they moved on to the hubbub surrounding Travis Kelce‘s response to Trump’s attendance of the sport. When requested at a press convention how he feels about it, he responded with, “That’s superior. It’s an incredible honor. I believe, irrespective of who the president is, I’m excited. As a result of it’s the largest sport of my life, and having the president there, it’s the perfect nation on the earth, so it’d be fairly cool.”
Some followers of Taylor Swift had been displeased by that response, although, attributable to Trump’s pre-election tweet through which he declared, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”
“This Taylor Swift fan isn’t mad about it,” Alyssa Farah Griffin provided first. “I believed he was completely elegant, a diplomatic reply. And it’s his huge day to be enjoying… The presidency is greater than anyone individual. He’s proud that the president of the US is there.”
Ana Navarro agreed that it was the fitting transfer on Kelce’s half, saying, “Think about, although, if he had mentioned one thing towards Trump, it might be taken out on his staff, and all of the hate that the staff would obtain as we’re heading into the Tremendous Bowl.”
Sara Haines was up subsequent and by chance despatched a few of her cohosts right into a little bit of a tailspin when she talked a few “threepeat” — whereas she meant the Chiefs probably profitable back-to-back-to-back Tremendous Bowls, for a break up second it was interpreted as a 3rd election win for Trump, incomes some nervous laughter from her fellow panelists.
After a little bit of a sidebar about who Navarro is de facto rooting for, Haines then returned to her level to say, “That is such a historic second … the rest [Kelce] mentioned would have made it about another person and never about them.” She went on to say that since he was in uniform, particularly, he was in job mode and needed to signify the entire Chiefs gamers together with his assertion. “He made a degree of claiming, ‘I really like this nation.’ That was not, ‘I’m an enormous fan. I really like this individual,’” Haines concluded.
Sunny Hostin, after revisiting the tweet in query, agreed along with her cohosts to say, “I’m fairly certain he is aware of [about the tweet]. He was being a diplomat, and I believe he did the fitting factor by not giving into the insanity.”
Goldberg agreed as effectively, including, “I like that we’ve not given into the insanity. A part of our job is to not feed that as a result of we need to assist you not be [frantically shaking]. So the child did effectively.”
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