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Subject: Former "View" Host Slams Joy Behar For Comments About Carrie Underwood Playing Trump's Inauguration
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:11:08 -0500
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Joy Behar is being criticized for her comments about country singer Carrie 
Underwood performing at Donald Trump’s inauguration next week.

On Tuesday’s episode of “The View,” the co-host expressed her thoughts on the 
news, saying, “I would not normalize [Trump]. [Underwood] says, ‘I love our 
country.’ How do you love our country and support and normalize somebody who 
was a convicted felon who really wants to destroy the country in my opinion? 
I don’t understand how you say you love your country at the same time as you 
normalize this convicted felon.”

Behar later said, “I would not be the person to say, ‘Don’t do it,’ because I 
believe in free speech and everything about it. I personally would not do it. 
No one’s asked me, but that’s another story.”

Former co-host of “The View” Elisabeth Hasselbeck called out Behar for her 
reaction to Underwood singing at the inauguration.

“That @TheView @JoyVBehar needs to simmer down off my friend,” Hasselbeck 
posted on X. Hasselbeck later appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show 
Tuesday night to explain her thoughts on the drama. 

Hasselbeck said “The View” doesn’t include “anyone there who has a lick of 
sense on most days,” per Entertainment Weekly. 

She also said Behar’s comments were “nothing more than selfish personal 
publicity-gaining right now” and claimed she “wants to attach her name to 
Carrie Underwood’s name so that she maintains relevance because she knows the 
ship is sinking.”

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg also defended Underwood during Tuesday’s 
episode of “The View.” She said, “I stand behind her. If I believe I have the 
right to make up my mind to go perform someplace, I believe they have the 
same right. So I have to support (her). It doesn’t mean I’m particularly 
interested in watching. I won’t be watching. But that’s me.”

Underwood has been facing a ton of backlash from fans following the 
announcement that she is slated to sing “America the Beautiful” during the 
inauguration ceremony on Monday. 

The “American Idol” winner later issued a statement, saying, “I love our 
country and am honored to have been asked to sing at the Inauguration and to 
be a small part of this historic event.”

Underwood added, “I am humbled to answer the call at a time when we must all 
come together in the spirit of unity and looking to the future.”

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