‘The View’ Hosts Celebrate Living ‘Rent-Free’ In Trump’s Head After His Al Smith Dinner Jokes

The women of “The View” had a lot to say Friday about Donald Trump’s jabs at their show.

The former president attended the annual Al Smith charity dinner Thursday in New York and roasted his critics, to mixed results. During his speech, he name-dropped “The View” in a self-aware joke about his longstanding feud with former co-host Rosie O’Donnell.

“The stupid show ‘The View’ is so bad now that the other day I was watching it and thinking to myself, ’You know what? They really need to bring Rosie O’Donnell back,” he joked at the gala, adding: “Those people are bad. I know every one of them and they are bad news.”

The show “doesn’t do very well, either,” he continued, adding that “ratings are very important.”

Co-host Joy Behar introduced the segment on Trump, claiming after airing a clip of Trump at the dinner that the former reality star has “met all of us.”

Fellow panelist Ana Navarro jumped in.

“Hell no!” Navarro exclaimed. “He has never met me. No, no, no, no. I don’t know what the hell you’re reading but I gotta tell you, I’ve lived 52 years, I’ve lived 44 years in this country, [and] I have never shaken that man’s hand, given him a kiss … and I never voted for him.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin noted that the only time she’s seen Trump in person was during his criminal trial in New York, while co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House communications director under Trump, decried his joke about the show’s supposedly poor ratings.

(Despite his claims at the gala, “The View” is consistently one of the highest-rated total daytime talk shows, and reportedly courted nearly 2.6 million viewers for the week of Oct. 7, when it aired its most-watched telecast since 2021 by interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris.)

Griffin also “cracked up” when Trump claimed he didn’t know her.

“He never met me — despite that I worked for him,” she said.

Griffin, who previously shared she resigned from his administration in 2020 “because I saw where this was heading,” said Trump’s confusion about her suggests “he’s slowing down,” echoing Harris’ claims and other reports that the 78-year-old may not be physically fit to run for office.

Hostin, though, found an upside to Trump’s attack.

“Isn’t it such an enjoyable thing to live rent-free in his head?” she said Friday.