"The View" Pretends Inauguration Didn't Happen -- And Then The Meltdown Begins

The hosts of ABC’s “The View” kicked off Tuesday’s broadcast by fully 
embracing the first stage of grief — denial — when they opened the show by 
pretending that the second inauguration of President Donald Trump simply had 
not happened.

Joy Behar opened the conversation, asking flatly, “So, yesterday … Did 
something happen yesterday?”

Cohost Ana Navarro, who still identifies as a Republican despite repeatedly 
defending former President Joe Biden and even acting as emcee at the 2024 
Democratic National Convention, replied, “Yes, it was Martin Luther King 
Day.”

“That’s a good one,” Behar said as the crowd cheered, and then she finally 
pivoted to address reality: “Well, in addition to Martin Luther King Day, a 
certain person, Donald Trump, was sworn back into the White House as the 47th 
president.”

WATCH:

	The cope is real.The View kicks off the show by pretending Trump's 
	inauguration didn't happen:Joy Behar: Did something happen yesterday?

	Ana Navarro: Yes, it was Martin Luther King Day. 
	pic.twitter.com/sXOkL2nViB

	— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 21, 2025

Behar then admitted that she had turned on the television and watched “the 
whole thing,” saying, “I have a certain masochistic streak in me.”

“So, if he’s sending all the criminals away, where is he going?” she said. 
“And what better way to unify the country than by ripping families apart and 
punishing anyone who doesn’t fall in line.”

Behar made no mention of the 300,000 migrant children former President 
Biden’s administration reportedly lost track of.

WATCH:

	"What is this country he speaks of?"Sara Haines says she doesn't 
	understand what Trump was speaking about in his inauguration.

	"I Just kind of felt this dark feeling and then he had this kind 
	of martyr-like, you guys are downtrodden…it had this god-like 
	complex…" pic.twitter.com/VFHzWg2lFy

	— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 21, 2025

“I watched it, just the speech part,” cohost Sara Haines said. “A lot of the 
revelry was hard because this was not someone I voted for, so I did not feel 
like sitting around and watching it.”

“The speech itself, I remember when it was done my first reaction was, ‘What 
is this country he speaks of?’ Because I immediately couldn’t reconcile the 
way I see the country and the people and how it is right now and where he saw 
it, it was — he didn’t say carnage, but he said carnage pretty much in 
everything else, you remember the reference from his first inauguration when 
he said carnage.”

“I just kind of felt this dark feeling and then he had this kind of martyr-
like, ‘you guys are downtrodden and almost irreparable — you can’t save this 
place but I can.’ And it had this god-like complex without any Jesus 
qualities,” Haines — who previously said that it “made sense” to subject 
Justice Amy Coney Barrett to a religious test despite the fact that it was 
illegal to do so — complained.

Haines went on to complain that Trump hadn’t said “one kind thing” about the 
outgoing administration — the administration that had fomented lawfare 
against him and repeatedly called him and his supporters extremists and a 
“threat to democracy.”

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