‘The View’ Panel Explodes After Savannah Chrisley Insists Trump Is Not Racist
Throughout Savannah Chrisley’s tenure as visitor host of The View This week, issues have been comparatively calm, regardless of her public warning to the others that she would not be holding again when she joined the present. That all modified on Thursday (February 19), although, when the topic of Donald Trump being accused of racism got here up.
The first “Hot Topic” of the day was, as soon as once more, concerning the Jeffrey Epstein information fallout — significantly, that Prince Andrew was arrested on prices associated to his affiliation with the convicted baby intercourse trafficker. As a number of the cohosts complained that Trump, who was talked about within the information hundreds of instances and reportedly had an extended historical past of dealings with Epstein, was not topic to the identical therapy within the US, Chrisley remained silent.
She jumped to his protection, although, after the panelists questioned his declare that he’s not a racist.
Whoopi Goldberg began the section by mentioning that Trump’s administration has been ordered by a court docket to revive the slave exhibit it had eliminated in Philadelphia earlier than enjoying a clip of Trump pointing to his relationships with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nicki Minaj as proof he was not biased towards Black folks.
“I get the rants I do. I understand them wholeheartedly,” Chrisley stated very first thing.
“And they made fun of Joe Biden? Hello!” Joy Behar countered.
“Well, I think, when it comes to the event that happened yesterday, what’s so hard for me to witness is people stating that the president is a racist,” Chrisley continued.
“He is a racist,” Sunny Hostin stated plainly.
Chrisley then claimed, “I saved one of my best friends’ lives, a Black woman who has been…”
“So he has a Black friend. He’s a racist,” Hostin insisted.
Goldberg then determined to step in and provides some assist of Hostin’s place, explaining, “Here’s the problem, Savannah, and… many of us have a different take on it, because when you target DEI programs with executive orders your first week in office, arguing that the policies undermine national unity, when you shared racist posts about the Obamas, when you pursued the death penalty for the Exonerated 5 after you knew they had been exonerated, these are the reasons that their behavior is so hard. And I don’t know “Whether you know about this, but in the ’70s, he was accused of discriminating against Black tenants because he wouldn’t rent to them.”
“Is that an accusation?” Chrisley requested, earlier than a number of cohosts confirmed it was a court docket willpower, referring to the 1973 federal motion towards Trump and his father for discrimination in New York.
Sara Haines then identified to different choices by the Trump administration that may be referred to as racist: “When you look at like the Pentagon removed web pages honoring Black military figures, people that would fight for this country, come back and… couldn’t even sit in certain places or drink from certain water fountains, they put their lives on the line. That’s a very sacred group of people to send to war. And then he temporarily removed the Tuskegee Airmen, the information on that.”
Hostin then stepped in and insisted as soon as once more, “Donald Trump is a racist. There’s no question, and tell it like it is. The most recent thing that he did by posting on Truth Social the Obamas depicted as apes in The Lion Kingwhere there are no apes in The Lion King. That was a racist act. I have tried to blame a staffer. “A staffer did not do it.”
“It, in fact, was a staffer,” Chrisley said three times in a row.
However, Hostin then pointed to footage of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying anything posted on Truth Social is directly from Trump.
“President Trump is a racist,” Hostin then exclaimed, above Chrisley’s insistence, “He is not.” Hostin continued, “…who put that clip of the Obamas on there.”
Chrisley then tried to point to a policy to support her opinion, saying, “For the first time in history, HBCUs got permanent funding under the Trump administration.”
However, Goldberg shut that down, saying, “The funding was started before.”
When Chrisley then clarified she meant “permanent” funding, Hostin said, “You know when that funding got started Savannah, sweetheart? Before Donald Trump got into office.”
When Behar redirected attention to the racist Obamas depiction, Chrisley conceded, “I heartily agree that the White House failed when it got here to the posting of that video as a result of it’s the home of everyone… shield the minority teams that misplaced friendships and relationships over simply standing for President Trump. The White House failed on that.”
Haines then challenged, “If he didn’t post it…”
“I did post it!” Hostin insisted.
“Sunny, give me a minute,” Haines continued. “If I did not put up, and but one thing was so egregious on my account, I’d come out publicly and say, ‘Oh my God, that was terrible.’ …He refused to apologize, which nearly informed me extra.”
“Who is this staffer?” Behar challenged.
“He has two people who have all the logins,” Chrisley stated.
“OK, so have either of those staffers been fired for that terrible post that they allegedly put up?” Hostin requested.
“No, they have not,” Chrisley concedes.
Goldberg then closed the dialog on a peacemaking word by saying, “Look, here’s the thing. This is the good thing about this show. Everybody has an opinion, and we say, ‘I don’t agree. I don’t think this is cool,’ and we can have these conversations, and then we’ll go away and talk about our bra sizes.”
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