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'The View' Hosts Complain Trump's 'Evil Losers' Remark Wasn't Presidential

May 23, 2017

The hosts of "The View" criticized President Trump's reference on Tuesday to the terrorist or terrorists behind the Manchester suicide bombing as "evil losers," complaining it was not presidential.

"I didn't feel that was presidential enough to respond to this kind of—" co-host Sunny Hostin started.

Joy Behar interrupted to say it was "typical" of how Trump talks.

Hostin contrasted Trump with Barack Obama, a favorite of "The View," who she said "talked about the victims and didn't talk about the bomber, necessarily."

"Talked about how we as a society have to come together," Hostin said. "I was expecting something like that."

Trump did give a speech on Sunday calling on a global coalition to come together to battle terrorism and alluded to those remarks on Tuesday when he addressed the bombing.

After a stream-of-consciousness rant from Whoopi Goldberg about security, terrorism and apples and oranges, Jedediah Bila noted Trump did discuss the victims who were killed by the terrorist.

"Somebody wrote that for him," Behar snapped.

For whatever reason, Behar's observation that presidents have speechwriters drew applause.

"I think our administration has to rise above in these times and become presidential, and to call them evil losers is not presidential," Hostin said.

Bila said that some people might like those kind of unpolished remarks because it's reminiscent of how they speak.

Goldberg remarked later that Obama made people angry because he was "too articulate for them" and she wanted presidents that didn't speak like her.

"Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski also expressed annoyance at Trump's use of the phrase on Tuesday, contrasting it with British Prime Minister Theresa May's more refined language.