If you’re a Trump supporter and you’re friends with Joy Behar, don’t expect her to save your life.
On this morning’s episode of The View, Behar said she wouldn’t give someone who voted for President Donald Trump a “kidney” — even if she were friends with them.
The conversation about whether the co-hosts could keep a Trump supporter in their friend group was sparked by a viral scene from Season 3 of The White Lotus, or, as Whoopi Goldberg called it, “The Caucasian Lotus.”
“I could be friends with a Trump supporter,” Behar said. “I won’t give them a kidney, but I could be friends with them.”
“It’s not just about politics. It’s about morality, ethics, it’s about cruelty, it’s about discrimination. It’s about a lot of things. So those are personal human values,” she continued. “We’re not just talking about a fiscal conservative who pays more taxes. We’re talking about you as a human being. So it’s hard to be friends with someone who signs onto something like that.”
However, Behar said she’s be willing to talk to Trump supporters to “find out what exactly do you know about this guy.”
Hostin agreed with Behar, telling the Hot Topics panel that she would have a “hard time” being friends with a Trump supporter.
“We’re in abnormal times. This is not the Republican Party of yesterday. This is sort of the Trump-lican party in many respects,” she said. “It’s so extreme and if someone is supporting or voting someone who is hurting members of my family, members of my community, our elderly, our children, gutting our government, firing people, I do have a hard time being friends with that person.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin, the only Republican at the table, had a different take on the subject.
“My friends are very equally split. My best friend’s a Democrat but in our immediate group we have people who voted for Trump,” she explained. “If you know people to their core, you know their values, and you know why they decided, you can respect them and co-exist with them supporting somebody that you didn’t.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
