The hosts of The View debated whether the criticism House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has faced after she promoted her ice cream collection was warranted.
Pelosi took heat for her interview with late-night host James Corden last week, during which she gave viewers a look inside her freezer stocked more than a dozen containers of ice cream.
The Trump reelection campaign even turned it into an ad, presenting the California Democrat as being detached from the plight of U.S. citizens struggling economically amid strict stay-at-home orders meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Americans are losing their jobs since the virus rocked the economy.
Nancy Pelosi blocks funding for people to keep getting paychecks.
But she’s got a $24K fridge full of ice cream, so she’s cool.
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Whoopi Goldberg, one of the hosts of ABC’s daytime talk show, said on Tuesday the ice cream Pelosi was talking about “comes from a small business.” She also said Pelosi was “fighting to make sure that small businesses are able to get the testing they need and the stuff that they need.”
After being asked if Pelosi was being “scapegoated here,” host Joy Behar urged politicians to avoid comedy shows because “they get you to say things there.” She referred to them as a “trap.”
“Okay, it doesn’t look good maybe, I mean, she’s got an expensive refrigerator. Let’s go to Trump Tower and see what kind of refrigerator he has,” Behar added in a reference to President Trump.
Meghan McCain, a conservative member of the panel, called the Trump campaign ad a “savage blow” and a “kill shot.”
“It’s not the ice cream that’s in her fridge, it’s the fact that she’s standing behind giant refrigerators, multiple ones that cost $24,000 each,” McCain said. “And you’re right, Joy, politicians are wealthy, Trump is wealthy, but I think in this specific moment, optics are narratives. I don’t make the rules of politics, this is just how it works.”
“Trust me when I say this, it will play very well in the middle of the country,” McCain said before criticizing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for celebrating the plunging oil prices in a quickly deleted tweet. “You have the two arguably most famous Democratic women in the country, I think, botching a major, major conversation right now.”
Host Sunny Hostin called the ad “manufactured Fox News outrage.”
