Hosts of ABC's The View took issue with former President Donald Trump's Wednesday appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention and declared the former president could not return to the organization's event.
Trump was originally invited to appear at the convention with Vice President Kamala Harris amidst her newly-launched presidential campaign, though Harris did not attend the NABJ due to scheduling conflicts. It was later announced that Harris would participate in a question and answer session either in person or virtually sometime in September.
During the former president's Wednesday appearance at NABJ's convention, Trump noted inconsistencies with Harris' heritage as a woman of Indian descent compared with her portrayal as a black woman in recent years and was met with hostile responses from moderators Rachel Scott of ABC News, Fox News' Harris Faulkner, and Semafor's Kadia Goba.
Hosts of The View criticized Trump's remarks at the convention during a Thursday broadcast of the program.
"This is not new. We knew this was who he was. This is who he's always been," said host Whoopi Goldberg. "Some of the journalists said he arrived angry. He was angry when he got there."
Goldberg claimed Trump's alleged attitude was in response to the organization's fact checking of his remarks.
"This is the same old stuff he did with Obama," Goldberg said, noting Obama's mixed-race heritage. "If the KKK were chasing him, they'd say 'There goes a black man.'"
"If the KKK was chasing Kamala, they'd say 'There goes a black woman,'" Goldberg added. Joy Behar says Trump's entire base is racist:
"My point is he was really working for his base right now. That was to signal his base...It was like an opportunity to say to all the racists out there, see, see what I'm saying here. See what I did there?" pic.twitter.com/tHXc0rF5u0
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Co-host Sunny Hostin went on to cite Harris' history being involved in black organizations, asserting: "She is a black woman."
"In this country, if you are biracial, if you have any drop of black blood in you, you are considered a black person," Hostin said. "We didn't make those rules. Those rules were made for us."
Hostin went on to cite her own biracial heritage saying the KKK would similarly go after her.
"The KKK is gonna find me and round me up with every other black person," she said. "This is my lived experience and it's [Harris'] lived experience and I think to question someone's racial identity ... the bar has fallen so low."
Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah-Griffin, who formerly worked in the Trump administration, then referred to Trump's remarks as "despicable."
"There is something about when women challenging him that he unravels," Farah-Griffin said, adding Trump did not appear "mentally sharp" during his appearance.
"He didn't even try to hide or mask the racism," she said. "And that, to me, is a sign of decline."
Farah-Griffin then called Trump a "crazy great uncle you hope doesn't show up to the family event."
Fellow co-host Joy Behar claimed Trump's remarks were a dog whistle to allegedly racist supporters and further claimed Trump was "petrified" of Harris.
"He did exactly what often Republicans bitch about. 'You don't invite me. You don't want to listen,'" Goldberg said. "Well, we invited you and we heard you."
"You can't come back," she concluded.
