“The View” Co-Host Sunny Hostin Labels President Trump a “DEI Job” During Post-Inauguration Reaction

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin called President Donald Trump a “DEI employee” on Monday while reacting to his inauguration and pointed out the “hypocrisy” of his announcement that he would get rid of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ( DEI). policies.

“The only thing I thought about was the hypocrisy of having a man being inaugurated to be president on the same day we commemorate MLK, and the same man saying he was going to get rid of diversity, equality and inclusion, ” The host. said. “Because Martin Luther King not only wanted racial equality, he wanted economic equality. And that’s something that people tend to miss.”

“I want to remind people that he said that black Americans deserve reparations for the injustices they face. He argued that reparations were a form of justice, in fact, not charity, and he said, quote, ‘it is all right to tell a man to pull himself up by his bootstraps, but to tell a man without boots that he should rise from his boots”, she continued.

“Thinking about that and Donald Trump saying things that this country would be a meritocracy, you’re talking about a man who didn’t become president of the United States because of merit,” Hostin said, arguing that he didn’t have “no political experience.” She concluded, “He was given everything he had. He is a hereditary tenant. He is, if anything, a DEI hire, a ‘didn’t earn it’ and so, those are just some of the things I was thinking about.”

The host and co-host Ana Navarro revealed they did not attend the inauguration on Monday, both noting that it was also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hostin revealed at the top of her comments that she went to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch college football with friends instead.

Later in the show, Navarro encouraged Democrats to protest Trump every chance they get.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said she watched and covered the inauguration and came away believing people should stop using the phrase “normalizing Donald Trump,” arguing that Trump had already been “normalized” because of his re-election.

“Donald Trump is normalized, like it or not, 75 million people voted for him. He is now as much a part of American history as George Bush, Barack Obama and any other two-term president,” Griffin said.

She continued, “I was shocked by the images of – he left four years ago in disgrace, hardly anyone showed up when he announced his re-election two years ago – and now he’s back as a conquering king and has the most powerful titans industry giants, fashion designers, he had Democrats and every former president out there, and I think it’s a moment to consider why he won and the reasons he won.”

Last week, co-host Joy Behar accused country singer Carrie Underwood of normalizing Trump by agreeing to perform at his inauguration.