‘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.”

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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.

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"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.”

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“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.”