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The View took a firm stance against former President Donald Trump for recently using an image from a solemn military ceremony in a fundraising email.
In Monday’s episode, Whoopi Goldberg introduced a segment after showing a clip where Trump sidestepped accountability for an email sent by his political action committee. The email used a photo from the dignified transfer of six U.S. service members who perished in a refueling mishap. Trump also refrained from commenting on their tragic deaths.
Goldberg questioned the appropriateness of Trump’s response, asking, “Is this acceptable, regardless of political affiliation?”
Carly Fiorina, a guest co-host and former Republican presidential hopeful, promptly responded, “Just apologize. How difficult is that?”
Fiorina also criticized Trump for not removing his baseball cap during the dignified transfer ceremony.
“And by the way, I don’t like the baseball cap, I don’t like it announcing the war in Iran, I don’t like it at a dignified transfer. How hard is it to just say I’m very sorry?” she added.
Sara Haines agreed “that should be the easy part.”
“Whenever I see him avoid this part,” she continued. “It’s so natural to mourn a death and to say, ‘I know right now there are families hurting, this is the ultimate sacrifice, you can give to our country.’ That doesn’t even politically take any blame. It just is saying, ‘Oh my gosh, my heart hurts for all of you.’ That part should come so naturally, and he just can’t spit it out.”
Ana Navarro also called out Trump for the email, citing his prior offenses of keeping his baseball hat on during the dignified transfer and “golfing and partying at Mar-a-Lago throughout this war.”
“And then we have this. So just when you think he can’t do anything that is more inhumane, callous, inappropriate, not presidential, and stupid, he goes and proves me wrong and does it,” she said.
Navarro likened Trump’s reaction to the recent fundraising email to his reaction after he posted a racist video comparing the Obamas to apes, noting that he claimed that he “hadn’t seen it.”
“You have sent out fundraising emails,” she told Fiorina. “You know that there’s a lot of eyes that go through it before it gets put out. So if there were people who did this and you didn’t know and you hadn’t seen it, then call ’em out, fire them, condemn what was done, and apologize! He didn’t do it with the Obamas, he’s not doing it here.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.