Oh boy, here we go again. Another day, another unhinged segment on The View.
This time, co-host Ana Navarro decided to lob an outrageous claim about former President Donald Trump, joking—if you can call it that—that he’d sign an executive order banning Black people from performing at the Super Bowl halftime show. Yes, really. That’s where we are now.
Navarro, who freely admitted she wasn’t even watching the game, went on a rant about Trump and the NFL, connecting dots in a way that would make even the most dedicated conspiracy theorist raise an eyebrow.
Her claim came in response to discussions about the NFL replacing the "End Racism" message in the end zone with "Choose Love" and "It Takes All of Us"—a change that she suggested was some kind of appeasement to Trump. But, in her words, the Super Bowl halftime show “did not capitulate” to him.
Kendrick Lamar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper, took the stage with a performance that included Serena Williams as a guest dancer and a backdrop of Black performers arranged in the shape of an American flag.
Samuel L. Jackson introduced him dressed as "Black Uncle Sam," a moment that Navarro gleefully described as "Blackity, Black, Black!"—a phrase that, one has to wonder, would be called out as problematic if uttered by someone on the other end of the political spectrum.
Navarro’s co-host, Sunny Hostin, doubled down, agreeing that the performance was a powerful message against the supposed attacks on diversity. She also found delight in the idea that Trump, who was attending the Super Bowl for the first time, might have been uncomfortable with the performance. Hostin praised Lamar’s set as a “multilayered” work of art that symbolized America’s divisions and how the country was "built on the backs of Black people."
Of course, the entire conversation on The View was built on the assumption that Trump somehow hates Black culture—a claim that completely ignores his long history with the hip-hop community. Before politics, Trump was frequently name-dropped in rap songs as a symbol of success.
Even after he took office, artists like Kanye West and Waka Flocka Flame expressed support for him. But that inconvenient reality doesn’t fit The View’s narrative, so it’s conveniently ignored.