Leave it to the Cackling Coven of ABC News’s The View to make the Super Bowl and the halftime show about President Trump and think they were witty about it. In their Monday reaction to the Philadelphia Eagles’ blowout win over Kansas City Chiefs, fake Republican Ana Navarro praised rapper Kendrick Lamar for his halftime performance and claimed – without evidence – that it would lead to Trump “banning black people” from performing during the halftime show.
“You know I don’ t do sports. You know I don’t do football,” Navarro began her comments, showing just how invaluable her opinion was going to be. She then launched into a cackle-filled rant about how Trump was somehow upset about seeing black people perform in front of him and how it was supposedly the NFL somehow sticking it to him.
“I think today Donald Trump is going to sign an executive order banning black people from halftime,” she exclaimed. “Because you remember last week we were talking about whether the NFL was capitulating to Trump by removing the term ‘end racism’ from the end zone? Boy, did they not capitulate to Trump!”
She then started boasting about being happy because purportedly “racists” were upset with the show:
When I saw Samuel L. Jackson dressed as a black Uncle Sam introducing Kendrick Lamar, who then had, like, an entire formation of all black people making a U.S. flag! Listen. This much I know. All the black people on my feed were, like, “Oh, this is blackity black black,” and all the racists who somehow get in, man were they hopping mad. So, if the racists are mad, I'm happy as a clam!
At no time did she provide evidence for her negative claims.
Of course, staunchly racist Sunny Hostin agreed with Navarro and hyped how Trump had to look at “black excellence” during the show. The two then claimed Trump would likely never attend a Super Bowl ever again because of the show:
HOSTIN: I agree Ana. With all these attacks on diversity, all these attacks on African Americans, it was so nice to see black excellence enjoyed in front of the sitting President who decided for the first time to go to the Super Bowl. New Orleans --
NAVARRO: I don't think he's ever going back!
HOSTIN: I don't think he's going back! New Orleans of course, is a predominantly black city, very close to my heart. 55 percent black.
Again, at no point did they provide evidence that Trump hated the show or took offence to it. It appeared to be all in their heads.
Hostin then proclaimed that critics who said “they didn’ t understand [Lamar’s] performance” where just too stupid to understand the work of “a Pulitzer prize-winning musician and poet. Okay?”
Just before going to the commercial break, moderator Whoopi Goldberg went on a bizarre rant about football and race that seemed to falsely hint that there was a major movement to ban black players:
Here’ s the thing. The Super Bowl is the Super Bowl. It’ s an American sport. And we got players of all colors playing this game. So, the next time anyone decides that someone isn’t good enough or they shouldn’ t be -- this is what decides if you are good enough. If you made it, you were good enough. Now, winners and losers, we will always have, but there is nothing to say that any one of us can't play. We're all invited to this game.
Obliviously, “we’ re all invited to this game.” No one is trying to stop that Whoopi, no matter what you and your co-hosts invent to complain about.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
February 10, 2025
11:03:46 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: You know I don’ t do sports. You know I don’t do football. So, I wasn’ t watching the game. But listen. [Laughter] I think today Donald Trump is going to sign an executive order banning black people from halftime!
[Applause]
Because you remember last week we were talking about whether the NFL was capitulating to Trump by removing the term “end racism” from the end zone? Boy, did they not capitulate to Trump!
When I saw Samuel L. Jackson –
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah.
NAVARRO: - dressed as a black Uncle Sam introducing Kendrick Lamar, who then had, like, an entire formation of all black people making a U.S. flag! Listen. This much I know. All the black people on my feed were, like, “Oh, this is blackity black black,” and all the racists who somehow get in, man were they hopping mad. So, if the racists are mad, I'm happy as a clam!
[Applause]
It was a huge celebration of New Orleans and you can't celebrate New Orleans without celebrating black culture. Welcome to black history month, you all!
[Cheers and applause]
HOSTIN: Yeah.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Sunny?
HOSTIN: I really thoroughly enjoyed it because I did predict that the Eagles would win as can be seen by my gloating outfit today.
SARA HAINES: Her subtle jacket.
HOSTIN: My subtle jacket.
I agree Ana. With all these attacks on diversity, all these attacks on African Americans, it was so nice to see black excellence enjoyed in front of the sitting President who decided for the first time to go to the Super Bowl. New Orleans --
NAVARRO: I don't think he's ever going back!
HOSTIN: I don't think he's going back!
New Orleans of course, is a predominantly black city, very close to my heart. 55 percent black. Then you have Kendrick Lamar. A lot of people said they didn't understand his performance. Guys, he's an award-winning -- a Pulitzer prize-winning musician and poet. Okay?
So, it was a many-layered performance. You got Serena Williams Crip walking. What I also really enjoyed about Kendrick’s performance is, it was performance art if you really looked at it. It was multilayered. Yes, he had people dressed in red, white, and blue, the colors of the flag, but he also had those -- he was standing in front of them as -- because he's explaining that this is a divided country at this point. He also has them leaning to the side because this country was built on the backs of black people. So it was a very multilayered.
(…)
11:09:07 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: Here's the thing. The Super Bowl is the Super Bowl. It's an American sport.
NAVARRO: Yep.
HOSTIN: Yep.
GOLDBERG: And we got players of all colors playing this game. So, the next time anyone decides that someone isn't good enough or they shouldn't be -- this is what decides if you are good enough. If you made it, you were good enough.
Now, winners and losers, we will always have, but there is nothing to say that any one of us can't play. We're all invited to this game.
We'll be right back.
