The View Cohosts Defend Michelle Obama’s Determination to Skip Donald Trump’s Inauguration

It was confirmed this week that the previous First Girl would not be attending the president-elect’s swearing in, although her workplace didn’t present any additional clarification in its temporary assertion.

On this morning’s episode of the daytime speak present, Sunny Hostin applauded Obama’s resolution.

“Sure, Lord. She is so proper,” Hostin stated.

“She gave us that, ‘After they go low, we should go excessive,'” referencing an iconic Obama quote. “And I feel she’s modified her tune. I feel once they go low, it’s important to meet that vitality and maybe go even decrease. Turn out to be small like an ant and go to the earth’s crust.”

Hostin then shared she thought Obama didn’t take pleasure in Trump’s 2017 inauguration as a result of “there was no range, there was no shade on that stage, she stated there was no reflection of what the broader sense of what America appears like.”

Whereas Alyssa Farah Griffin shared she had “no drawback” with Obama’s resolution, she did insist that each one former presidents and vice presidents attend — after Trump did not President Joe Biden’s inauguration following the 2020 election.

“I feel it indicators to the world that regardless of a really tumultuous political season that America strikes ahead and we’ll have a protected and safe switch of energy, regardless of Donald Trump in 2020 and what he did after Jan. 6,” she stated, earlier than including, “I feel a partner, she served her time, I don’t suppose she’s obligated to be there.”

Whereas the ladies have no idea precisely why Obama determined to not attend the inauguration, Ana Navarro speculated it was as a result of the 61-year-old “has discovered to place herself first and her psychological well being first.”

“When she was the outgoing First Girl, she had the Trumps to the White Home, she was good, she performed good, she went to the inauguration, she sat by means of that insane speech about American carnage,” Navarro recalled.

“So I feel this time she’s saying, ‘Boo, been there, performed that. You are solo on this. I am out. I am gonna do what’s finest for my psychological well being.’ And I feel she’s high quality to try this.”

Pleasure Behar interrupted and stated the upcoming inauguration is “not a standard” one since Trump is a “convicted felon” — saying that, due to this fact, folks shouldn’t have to attend because it it’s a “regular inauguration.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.