The View Brutally Mocks Ivanka’s ‘Insulting’ Childcare Excuses For Skipping Trump’s NY Trial

The co-hosts of ABC’s The View weren’t buying former First Daughter Ivanka Trump’s claim of “undue hardship” in her failed attempt to skip her father’s civil trial in New York City. So much so that they spent about half a segment of Friday’s show ripping her argument apart, even after a judge already did just that.

Ivanka was issued a subpoena, which meant she would be required to appear in court to testify in the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump. She was able to push her court appearance to a later date, but when she tried kiboshing it all together, claiming through her attorney that since she lives in Florida with her three children, jetting up to NYC “in the middle of a school week” would cause her “undue hardship.”

The panel was not convinced of this hardship. Not at all. Co-host Ana Navarro started them off:

I’m sorry, Ivanka gets absolutely no sympathy from me, and I think from most American women who have to, and men, who have to balance all sorts of duties… Girl, I fly back and forth between Miami and New York at least twice a week, and I don’t have a private jet or a $2 billion from the Saudis. Yeah. So I think you can do it for one day.

She added that Ivanka was just at Kim Kardashian’s birthday party — in Beverly Hills, California. A few days ago. No “undue hardship” in showing up to that! Navarro further pointed out:

She traveled all over the world when she was at the White House and the children were even smaller. And also, don’t these children have a father that can take care of them on a school day?

Co-host Sara Haines took that point even further:

[A]ll I could think about is the globetrotting she did when she had her position in the White House. She’d go for seven to nine days. … This because it’s during the week of school. The kids go to full-time school. When she was traveling the world, one of them was at home and one years old. I just don’t understand her reasoning. It’s tone deaf. And I also find, like you said, though, it’s insulting.

But co-host Sunny Hostin has a theory on why Ivanka is suddenly playing “Mother of the Year”:

When you think about the Trump Family Crime Organization, the one person — I mean, I just call things like I see them — the one person that seems to be unscathed in it is Ivanka Trump, right? …

She has never really been implicated. And so in a civil case, you can plead the Fifth because if something that you say can and will be against you in a criminal case, you don’t want to testify. She would have to testify… If she testifies and she was somewhat involved in any way… We saw her on The Apprentice. She was getting off the helicopter with the boys, too. She could say something that could now lead to criminal liability.

Watch the full video via ABC.