Since Donald Trump‘s election in November, Pleasure Behar has been one of the vocal critics of his insurance policies and the supporters who selected him to implement them. Every day on The View, she has a number of the harshest critiques for the present administration and is at all times prepared with a zinger on the “Scorching Subjects” associated to it. So when requested on Thursday’s (March 6) episode whether or not she might ever be mates with a Trump supporter, her reply was equally spirited.
“I received’t give them a kidney, however I could possibly be mates with a Trump supporter,” she mentioned earlier than explaining her reasoning. “I imply, the factor about it’s, it’s not nearly politics. It’s about morality, ethics, it’s about cruelty, it’s about discrimination. So these are private, human values. We’re probably not simply speaking a couple of fiscal conservative [issue of] who pays extra taxes. We’re speaking about you as a human being. So it’s onerous to be mates with somebody who indicators on to one thing like that.”
Nonetheless, Behar did say that she does generally interact with Trump supporters in conversations as a result of she likes to check out how a lot data they really have on the person they purport to supprot.
“Alternatively, [I’m] open to dialogue,” she mentioned. “I like to speak to them, discover out what precisely have you learnt about this man?”
Pleasure Behar claims she’s mates with a Trump supporter however provides she wouldn’t give them a kidney to save lots of their life:
“I received’t give them a kidney however I could possibly be mates with them…the factor about it, it’s not nearly politics, it’s about morality, ethics, it’s about cruelty,… pic.twitter.com/TqMu3wzFXC— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 6, 2025
The dialog about Behar’s relationship with Trump supporters was impressed by a viral scene from The White Lotus Season 3 wherein Leslie Bibb‘s character Kate seemingly revealed to her mates — Carrie Coon‘s Laurie and Michelle Monaghan‘s Jaclyn — that she voted for Trump, although she was ostensibly an unbiased.
Behar was supported by cohost Sunny Hostin who argued, “This isn’t the Republican Get together of yesterday. That is the Trump-lican occasion… It’s so excessive, and if somebody is supporting or voting for somebody who’s hurting [people], I do have a tough time being mates with that particular person.” Nevertheless, Alyssa Farah Griffin, in the meantime, mentioned that her shut mates group is “cut up” between Democrats and Trump-supporting Republicans who’re in a position to keep a friendship as a result of “you already know their values, and you already know why they determined [on Trump].”
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