The View cohost Ana Navarro said she’s banned from entering her home country of Nicaragua.Navarro made the admission as the cohosts discussed Donald Trump’s proposal to probe tourists’ social media history.Navarro was born in Nicaragua but moved to the United States with her family to escape political turmoil in her home nation.
The View cohost and Republican political commentator Ana Navarro has revealed that she’s banned from entering her home country of Nicaragua over her sustained criticism of the nation’s political landscape.
The 53-year-old TV personality made the announcement on Friday’s live episode of the ABC talk show, after Joy Behar introduced a Hot Topic about President Donald Trump‘s proposal to have tourists without a visa submit for government review five years’ worth of their social media history before entering the United States.
“Five years of my social media? You wouldn’t see that person for weeks on end, it would take so long to go through, so, it makes no sense,” said conservative panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin in reaction to the proposal, years after she resigned from working under Trump at the White House.
Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin on ‘The View’.
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Navarro, who left Nicaragua with her family in the 1980s to escape the volatile atmosphere of Nicaragua’s government, weighed in with an assessment of her own social media, which she uses to regularly slam Trump and the current presidential administration.
“Go through five seconds of my social media and I’d be banned from entering this country for life,” Navarro quipped.
Behar then asked, “I thought you were already?” to which Navarro replied, “No, I’m banned from entering Nicaragua, which is a dictatorship, for the same reason.”
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Navarro at The View for more information.
Navarro has posted about her experience in Nicaragua before, including in a 2021 Instagram post honoring her late mother, Violeta, who died that year at age 81.
“I have not been able to visit her in Nicaragua because the dictator there has denied entry to media and jailed many of his critics,” Navarro wrote in the message. “My parents asked me not to go in fear for my safety.”
Later in Friday’s episode, Navarro weighed in on Trump’s proposal, expressing shock over the finer details of the potential plan.
Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg for ‘The View’.
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“To me, there’s a critical difference. They’re asking for access to five years of social media. To my shock, this is actually for countries in the visa waiver program, where people don’t need a visa to come to the United States. They apply through this other application,” Navarro observed.
She doubled down on the fact that she was “shocked” by learning that it’s, as she said, “actually mostly white countries” on that list.
“Usually when he’s banning people from this country, it’s Black and brown people he’s banning,” she said, referencing the ongoing ICE raids and the president’s recent remarks about the people of Somalia entering the U.S.
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Navarro has long criticized Trump and his political allies, with her criticism even drawing the ire of the White House, which has released several exclusive statements to EW slamming Navarro’s views — with one even calling Navarro out for what a spokesperson called “brain-numbingly dumb takes” on current affairs.
The View airs weekdays on ABC.