The White House has again taken aim at The View cohost Ana Navarro, after the Republican panelist criticized the Donald Trump administration’s Latino supporters amid ongoing ICE raids and deportations.
When reached for comment Wednesday on the 53-year-old’s recent Instagram posts criticizing “Latino Trumpers,” a White House spokesperson in turn slams Navarro’s comments in a statement o Entertainment Weekly.
“Just when you think Ana Navarro can’t get any dumber, she proves you wrong,” the statement, from White House representative Abigail Jackson, begins.Â
Jackson continues, claiming that “Democrat party approval is at record lows because, instead of accepting that their party is wrong and out of touch with Americans of all backgrounds, they have surrogates like Ana attacking anyone who dares disagree with her.”
The statement finishes by encouraging Navarro to “Keep it up, Ana!”Â
EW has reached out to a representative for Navarro at The View for comment.Â
Earlier, Navarro, who is Nicaraguan, shared a series of Instagram Stories slamming Latinos voting for the current presidential administration amid ICE deportations and raids.
“Latino Trumpers, is [this] the s— you all voted for? So your tias & abuelas can be spied on?” Navarro asked in an Instagram Story over a screenshot of a CBS News post reading, “Trump administration is reinstating a long-dormant practice of conducting ‘neighborhood checks’ to vet immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship.”
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“Where are all them Christians at?” the political commentator asked in another post over a message from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who released an Aug. 18 statement on the reported ICE detention of a 7-year-old girl in the state.
“If a seven-year-old is who President Trump considers the ‘worst of the worst,’ then the promise was a lie from the start,” Hochul wrote in her statement that Navarro reposted.
‘The View’ cohosts Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
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Despite her own political affiliation, Navarro has been a longtime critic of Trump and his administration, and has drawn the ire of the White House before.
On a July episode of The View, Navarro voiced her staunch opposition to “horrible human” beings treating Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention centers as tourist destinations. The White House provided EW with a similar statement at the time.
Navarro’s latest criticism comes amid The View receiving pushback from government figures, with FCC chair Brendan Carr telling Fox News earlier this summer that he thinks there could be “consequences” for the talk show if the hosts don’t check their alleged liberal bias. Likewise, former cohost Rosie O’Donnell predicted The View might get canceled over growing political pressure.
The View returns for a new season Monday, Sept. 8 at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.Â