It’s no secret that Ana Navarro dislikes Ivanka Trump. And by “dislikes” we actually mean utterly loathes.
The View co-host has hated the former first daughter ever since she posted that ridiculous photo of herself modeling a can of Goya beans. (“I don’t know any Latin who would dress in white silk to cook a can of black beans,” Navarro said at the time. “That in itself makes no sense!”)
Which is why nobody was more surprised than Navarro herself when she found herself complimenting Ivanka for using her social media platform to do something useful for once in her life.
On Friday’s episode of The View, Navarro weighed in the backlash Ivanka has received from the MAGA mob after posting a picture of herself getting her first doze of the Pfizer vaccine and encouraging others to do so as well.
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Navarro prefaced her remarks by saying, “I can’t believe I’m going to say anything good about her. You all know I’m no fan of Nepotism Barbie. But here I go. Take a deep breath…”
She continued, “Yesterday, I commend Ivanka Trump for having used her platform to show herself getting the vaccine and promote vaccination, when she says, I hope you get the shot too. And if you see the responses from Trump-supporting Republicans against what used to be their favorite daughter, you can see how political it has become.”
We’ve gotta admire how Ana did that–slyly throwing in the “Nepotism Barbie” comment at the top to make sure the compliment was served backhand.
Even Joy Behar had kindish words for the former first daughter, although her delivery was a bit more, shall we say, lukewarm.
“OK, she’s a little late,” Behar conceded, “but I’ll give it to her.”
Navarro was not so friendly toward Ivanka’s dad or stepmom, however.
“Shame on people like Donald Trump and Melania Trump and my governor Ron DeSantis for getting the vaccine but doing so behind closed doors,” she added, “And knowing that there’s this hesitancy among Republicans that they are making worse, that they are making worse and not doing anything about. Because the bottom line is they want Joe Biden to fail. And if that means cutting off their nose to spite their face, they will do it.”
Watch.
DR. FAUCI VS. REP. JORDAN ON COVID-19 MEASURES: After losing 565,000 Americans to the virus, the co-hosts react to Dr. Anthony Fauci butting heads with Congressman Jim Jordan at Thursday’s congressional hearing over pandemic safety measures. https://t.co/vbK1g1QVU2 pic.twitter.com/sdlu5ECLm5
— The View (@TheView) April 16, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Den
By contrast to the faint praise given Ivanka, someone really needs to punch Jim Jordan in the face! He is as disingenuous as it is possible for a person to be, or extraordinarily stupid, endangering the lives of his far-right followers with a childish notion of “freedumb” and total ignorance of the relationship between public health and the social contract at the base of any civilized society.
Perhaps one could beat some sense into a “man” like him.
Den
And my apologies for the run-on sentence! A colon or period would have helped. But editing always seems to consign a post to the eternal “awaiting moderation” death pit.
Fahd
Ana Navaro can be very funny with the way she approaches things and her “let me tell you something…” shtick, but I’m not giving her a pass on coming into the mainstream as Marco Rubio’s number one fan. Still, she did some good anti-Trump work in the last years, and she can be amusing. I guess that’s why she has the gig on The View.
Max
she doesn’t like Rubio.
Fahd
@Max
Anymore, but her early days on CNN were marked by Rubio love
ScottOnEarth
Ana Navarro is one of the few bright lights coming from the trump era nightmare. She is whip-smart and unfiltered. I am perplexed that she is still a Republican, as she clearly seems to fall on the progressive, liberal side of things. Either way, she is the brilliant voice of reason and very clever humor.
cuteguy
This is the maga monster they’ve created. It’s like hitter when he started the Nazi party. What did they expect? And Ron Death-santis is only looking to further divide the country if he gets elected to higher office, just like Chump did
paul dorian lord fredine
how tacky wearing a velvet mask with blue jeans.
mailliw110
Your picture is in black and white. How tacky.