The hosts of ABC's 'The View' weigh in on former President Donald Trump attending the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a largely Catholic event, and his jokes at the affair.
"I think he stands against everything and flies in the face of everything that a Catholic believes and holds dear," Hostin said.Entertainment Weekly's Oscars expert, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' beat reporter, host of 'Quick Drag' Twitter Spaces, and cohost of 'EW's BINGE' podcast. Almost all of the drag content on this site is my fault .after the former president attended Thursday's Alfred E.
"I think so. I hate to break with tradition, because this is a tradition, and it's a tradition to have both presidential candidates come to this particular dinner, but sometimes there's a time to break tradition," Hostin, who turns 56 on Sunday, replied, calling Trump's past behavior, including hisrelated to a hush-money payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, as hypocritical and antithetical to the essence of a religious event.
Hostin, a staunch Catholic, later said that Trump is "not a person I think should be normalized by the Catholic church" or "by anybody." She also added a legal note before the show cut to a commercial break that acknowledged that Trump has repeatedly denied having a sexual relationship with Daniels.Hostin's observations came after the cohosts' sustained period of criticism for the former president leading up to the 2024 presidential election.
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