Insert the Outdated Rose Titanic “It’s been 84 years” GIF right here, so far as Whoopi Goldberg is anxious. On Tuesday’s (April 29) new reside episode of The View, the cohost and moderator led the primary “Sizzling Subject” dialogue about Donald Trump‘s first 100 days in workplace and mentioned it felt extra like “100 years.”
“It’s the one hundredth day. I do know it doesn’t really feel like 100 days, it looks like 100 years, but it surely’s the one hundredth day of You Know Who’s second time period now,” she mentioned to introduce the topic earlier than including, “Yesterday, he lashed out on social media over experiences that he has the bottom disapproval numbers of any president within the final seven a long time.”
She then launched footage of White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calling a reported choice by Amazon to show the worth will increase from Trump’s tariffs coverage “a hostile and political act” and was shocked into silence. (Amazon subsequently denied it will likely be doing this.)
“I don’t even know what to say to this,” she mentioned, exasperated.
Pleasure Behar was relieved by the Amazon rumor. “I felt like with every little thing happening, I believed [Jeff] Bezos was a Trumper, and I used to be afraid as a result of I like Amazon. The whole lot comes the subsequent day. It’s unbelievable. And now I can like Amazon once more as a result of they’re telling individuals, ‘Be careful.’ I used to be at Costco the opposite day, which I like additionally, and I couldn’t get previous the individuals. There have been mobs. His legacy has mentioned that he made a run on rest room paper. That’s his legacy after 100 years.”
Sara Haines additionally appreciated the concept of Amazon posting tariff will increase subsequent to merchandise. “That’s an excellent enterprise mannequin,” she mentioned. “When you could have individuals turning to Amazon and rapidly the costs are jacked up, I truly suppose it’s simply transparency to say, ‘This wasn’t us.’ And if President Trump believes this was such an excellent concept, he ought to simply personal it and be pleased with it, fairly than being disgraced when individuals learn about it,”
Haines then went on to mirror on Trump’s second first 100 days, saying, “It’s actually arduous as a result of it looks like he flooded the zone. I can’t even actually keep in mind even a month in the past with among the issues we’ve handled over time. However I feel we discovered all we wanted to learn about this presidency within the first hours after he grew to become president, with the pardons of the January 6 insurrectionists, after which additionally he eliminated the safety element of John Bolton. So it form of got here all the way down to this, in case you are a good friend of Donald Trump, you can be tremendous. In reality, you’ll have sure ranges of impunity, and also you received’t must be accountable. In case you are a foe, watch out. He’ll come for you.”
For Sunny Hostin, the large takeaway from Trump’s first 100 days of this time period is his consolidation of energy unto himself. “What’s actually vital to notice is that we do have this excellent system of checks and balances that our founding fathers thought by. So that you’ve bought the chief department and the judicial department and the legislative department … Congress is actually the department that’s imagined to be there, legislating and making up legal guidelines. What he has achieved within the first 100 days is he has had 142 government orders. That’s unprecedented. It’s greater than some other president in historical past within the first 100 days. Against this, throughout his first administration, [he issued] 33. [By Barack] Obama, 19, George W. Bush, 12, Biden, 42, and so he’s doing one thing that’s unprecedented, and two-thirds of Individuals now are very fearful of those government orders.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin had a special takeaway, which was that she agreed with Leavitt’s feedback that voters selected Trump for his first-term financial successes however added, “The issue with it’s he’s not following that financial components…. What gave us a fairly sturdy financial system till Covid hit was considerate deregulation, focused commerce offers just like the USMCA with Canada, a tax invoice that lowered prices for shoppers and made individuals make investments. Right here he’s doing absolutely the reverse. The previous vice chairman’s chief of workers has known as him out, and he’s saying these tariffs are the antithesis of what made you could have success within the first time period.” Griffin went on to say that Trump is “underwater” in approval scores for key points, “most notably, the 2 issues he bought elected on: border safety and the financial system.” She additionally predicted it would worsen as soon as American shoppers begin seeing “empty cabinets” on account of the tariffs.
The cohosts went on to slam Trump’s deportation insurance policies for reportedly sending kids which might be residents to different nations with out due course of earlier than Goldberg mentioned, “The info are, we left him with good things [under Obama and Biden]. He has pooped on it, proper? He has now taken us to a spot the place persons are simply being eliminated, Americans. These kids are Americans.”
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