‘The View’ debates Biden’s pleasant assembly with Trump after heated marketing campaign rhetoric

“The View” co-hosts debated President Biden’s welcome again to Donald Trump on Thursday after a grueling marketing campaign that largely centered on the president-elect being a risk to democracy. 

“I get why so many Individuals didn’t take heed to warnings from me and others about our considerations about Donald Trump, as a result of what they see is a political season the place Joe Biden says he’s a fascist … They suppose, ‘It is like WWE, they’re going to go loopy, however then it’s all form of faux they usually’re going to shake fingers.’ And I do suppose that a number of the public sees this and was like, ‘Okay, was this all completely overstated?’” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump aide who voted for Harris, mentioned. “Was he simply saying that to win or scare folks about Trump?”

Trump and Biden met on the White Home on Wednesday to debate the transition to Trump’s presidency. The 2 shook fingers, exchanged pleasantries and spoke for a number of hours on the White Home, even posing for a photograph collectively exterior.

“That is what you do, you present up, you shake fingers, and also you show that the democracy stands. The voters determined, you present up and also you go it off,” co-host Sara Haines mentioned. “There are lots of people having this dialog and I’d say that fake rage of like ‘That is normalizing,’ that second is gone.”

“The View” co-hosts mentioned on Thursday whether or not President Biden ought to have been so cordial with Donald Trump throughout their assembly. (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)

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She continued to reconcile the assembly and mentioned she nonetheless believes Trump is a risk to democracy and Griffin agreed, noting that she was offering a distinct perspective. 

“I actually checked out it like that, as a result of I simply didn’t just like the optics of a convicted felon sitting within the White Home close to a fire,” co-host Sunny Hostin mentioned. “I feel when Biden mentioned he was a convicted felon and had the morals of an alley cat, I agreed with that.”

Nevertheless, Hostin praised Biden as a “statesman,” and mentioned he was setting an instance for the president-elect.

“It’s not going to work,” Hostin added.

President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci) (AP Photograph/Evan Vucc)

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Charlamagne tha God additionally questioned the Trump go to throughout his present, “The Breakfast Membership,” and puzzled what occurred to “‘the risk to democracy’ discuss.”

“I am simply making an attempt to determine, how do you go from, ‘He is an existential risk to democracy’ to ‘Welcome again’?” he mentioned. 

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