The View hosts shared that they will not be attending the upcoming White House Correspondents Dinner, despite the fact that President Trump will be making his first appearance at the annual event for the first time since taking office.
Alyssa Farah Griffin shared that she believes journalists should still attend the event to benefit the White House Correspondents Association and see journalists like CNNâs Kaitlan Collins be honored. But hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin stated that they refused to attend if Trump will also be in attendance, with Navarro joking that having President Trump speak at the White House Correspondents Dinner âis like having a cannibal host a vegan event.â
âWe get invited every ear and I am glad there are people going because, as Alyssa said, this raises money for worthwhile causes,â Navarro said, before launching into an impassioned rant. âFor me, there is no way in hell I would normalize Donald Trumpâs presence by showing up. For me, as a Latina immigrant, no community has been as maligned, humiliated, prosecuted and tortured as much as the immigrant community and the Latino community.â
She continued, âAnd theres just no way Iâm going to wear Spanx, high heels, drink cheap wine, eat a bad chicken dinner and smile at the stupid things I know heâs going to say.â
The View hosts also shared that itâs been reported Trump plans to attend the dinner only to speak at the event and will be leaving soon after, which Navarro thought was âdisrespectful.â
âThe White House Correspondents Association should not accept that. If he is going to show up, he should sit there while Kaitlan Collins gets her award. I think thatâs disrespectful to come in, confront the press, say his remarks and then leave,â Navarro complained. âIf heâs going to attend, the White House Correspondents Dinner should demand that he sit through the entire event.â

Hostin added that she also wonât âgrace him with my presence because I think heâs been attacking the press.â She also called him out for slashing funding for public broadcasting, attacking journalists and arresting her âfriend,â former CNN journalist Don Lemon.
âI donât care about this presidentâs attendance at that, I do care about journalists making him appear to be normal,â Hostin said. âHe is the most abnormal president we have ever had.â
Sara Haines, on the other hand, had her own hilarious reason for wanting to skip the dinner: She wants to avoid the host, mentalist Oz Pearlman, who once accurately guessed her ATM PIN code during his live appearance on The View, sending her into a ânervous breakdown,â according to Joy Behar.
âItâs not Donald Trump thatâs keeping me from this dinner, itâs Oz Pearlman,â she joked. âI warn everyone at this dinner, tell him nothing!â
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.