The view co-host Sunny hostin took his disdain for Donald Trump on the streets – literally – as the legal expert and former prosecutor revealed in Thursday’s episode that she once yelled at a group of construction workers over disagreements over the controversial political figure.
During a passionate debate on hot topics on the ethics of Morning Joe co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough meeting with the president-elect for an in-depth discussion ahead of the January inauguration, Hostin and panelist Joy Béhar recalls a time they had a public confrontation with construction workers over Trump.
After a former Trump staffer and See co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin on the side of Morning Joe duo amid sustained backlash, and agreed that she would also meet with “any topic I talk about regularly to ask questions” and gather information to reinforce her point of view, Behar stepped in to inform her colleague of his own experience in dialogue with people who share divergent opinions.
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“You’re talking to someone who talks to construction workers on the street about Trump all the time,” Behar said, with Sarah Haines jump as a joke, “Shout among construction workers!”
Hostin quickly corrected her, however. “No, it was me,” she said, repeating “it was me” four more times as Behar confirmed, “No, they’re yelling at me! They’re yelling at me, she’s yelling at them.” We work together!”
Behar has referenced his public feuds with Trump supporters several times in the past, including in a January episode of The viewwhere she revealed that a man with pro-Trump views (and who also didn’t recognize her) once told Behar on the street that she “could be a hot Joy Behar”, to which the comedian replied, “I’m a hot Joy Behar.” Behar!”
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Behar also got into a fight with an Italian woman on a train in 2023, when she once informed her peers that her European vacation included a clash with a locomotive stewardess who wouldn’t let her use the first-class toilet – so , naturally, Behar said she called the lady a “bitch.”
The view airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.