Trump Tower is 'hideous' while Black Lives Matter symbol will improve Fifth Avenue, angry Joy Behar slams POTUS
Joy Behar, a longtime co-host on ABC’s 'The View' has attacked President Donald J. Trump on Thursday after he lashed out at New York City’s plan to paint “Black Lives Matter” on the coveted Fifth Avenue. "NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue," the president tweeted on Wednesday.
"This will further antagonize New York’s Finest, who LOVE New York & vividly remember the horrible BLM chant, 'Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon'," he ranted. "Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street," he added. "Spend this money fighting crime instead!"
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Behar's comments came on ABC's 'The View' after co-host Whoopi Goldberg singled out Trump's "symbol of hate" remark.
“He said it is a symbol of hate. Now I just want to be clear, does the phrase Black Lives Matter — as a Black person, I’m just curious. Black Lives Matter, is that a symbol of hate to you, sir? Because I don’t hear Tiffany’s being upset about it. I don’t hear any of the stores that are along Fifth Avenue saying anything like that," Goldberg opined.
“Denigrate is the wrong word to use," Behar said in response. "He means deface, but he doesn’t know the right word. Really what really defaces Fifth Avenue is that gaudy, hideous, gold-infested monument to his massive ego," she said, referring to the iconic Trump Tower.
"In my opinion, the Black Lives Matter symbol only improves the neighborhood," Behar added. "That’s how I see it, and by the way, when he says something about, it’s a symbol of hate, the only hate is directed at him. That’s it. That’s where the hate is going right now.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin also chimed in on the discussion, branding the president's words as "offensive" and "disheartening." “It was just so offensive to me and disheartening, and he traffics in this race-baiting, and he traffics in this hatred," she said. "I know at one time he wanted the Black Lives Matter organization to be deemed a terrorist organization. So it’s again, this is sort of red meat to his base, but we’re in different times now."
"I mean, you have people supporting kneeling during the national anthem," she continued. "You have this, you know, people are protesting in the streets the murder of George Floyd. We’re in new times, and he doesn’t seem to get that, that the tide has turned against him. And he doesn’t understand that, and I think it’s just shameful. He’s a dinosaur in his thinking.”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also cited the “pigs in a blanket“ chant to explain why the president was against the Black Lives Matter mural.
“What the president was noting is that that symbol, when you look at some of the things that have been chanted by Black Lives Matter, like ‘pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon,‘ that‘s not an acceptable phrase to paint on our streets,“ she said at a press briefing Wednesday, adding that Trump believes “all Black lives matter.“
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York and Trump's personal attorney, also expressed his opposition to Black Lives Matter to reporters at the White House on Wednesday.
“Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization,” he said. “Black Lives Matter has been planning to destroy the police for three years.”