The View Cohosts Defend Michelle Obama’s Resolution 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 transient assertion.

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

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

“She gave us that, ‘Once they go low, we should go excessive,'” referencing an iconic Obama quote. “And I believe she’s modified her tune. I believe after they go low, you must meet that vitality and maybe go even decrease. Grow to be small like an ant and go to the earth’s crust.”

Hostin then shared she thought Obama didn’t get pleasure from Trump’s 2017 inauguration as a result of “there was no variety, there was no colour on that stage, she mentioned there was no reflection of what the broader sense of what America appears like.”

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

“I believe it alerts to the world that regardless of a really tumultuous political season that America strikes ahead and we will have a protected and safe switch of energy, regardless of Donald Trump in 2020 and what he did after Jan. 6,” she mentioned, earlier than including, “I believe 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 that insane speech about American carnage,” Navarro recalled.

“So I believe this time she’s saying, ‘Boo, been there, finished that. You are solo on this. I am out. I am gonna do what’s greatest for my psychological well being.’ And I believe she’s effective to do this.”

Pleasure Behar interrupted and mentioned the upcoming inauguration is “not a standard” one since Trump is a “convicted felon” — saying that, subsequently, folks do not need to attend because it it’s a “regular inauguration.”

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