Fox & Friends Bashes The View for Fake Melania Conspiracy: ‘Classic Mean Girl Environment’
Fox & Friends raged against The View this morning in response to the ABC talkshow’s discussion of “the fake Melania online conspiracy theory.”
The View’s Joy Behar brought up the claim that the Melania Trump may have a body double and pulled up a tweet that zoomed in on the first lady’s face as she stood next to President Donald Trump during a recent trip to visit an area in Alabama ravaged by a tornado.
Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce began by saying The View segment was just a facetious “excuse to mock the first lady.”
She continued by insisting that Melania is like “most normal people” and just looked “a little different” because she was “sad.”
“This is an excuse to be able to mock her, to say she looks short, her face is a different shape. Classic mean girl environment,” Bruce continued.
She then accused The View of Melania envy:
“When you’re in college or high school, there is the pretty girl who is nice, and you go with the marker to mark up her locker and then you gossip about her, call her names. That is what these adult women were doing to the first lady. With it did, reminds us of their jealousy, envy, the fact they have nothing else to do other than being mean. That is the only answer. They can’t appreciate or respect or enjoy something because I think clearly, well it is foolish and I don’t know what issues are going on in their lives but it’s a shame that they feel the need to put that forward on television.”
Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt accused the show of being “hypocritical,” since “they preach tolerance, yet they’re not tolerant of people who don’t agree with them,” while Brian Kilmeade chimed in with a tirade about the segment going against the current “time in which people are more aware of how you treat women in our society.”
“You have three women on the left: You have Senator Gillibrand, you have Senator Sanders, and Kamala Harris,” he added — though, Sen. Bernie Sanders is not a woman. “All with problems with women in sexual harassment in their campaigns, not much his heard about that, and now the first lady of the United States who seems to be more of a target… Is there something discordant about this?”
Bruce concluded by tying the fake Melania conspiracy to Fox News host’s Tucker Carlson‘s most recent scandal, which involved the resurfacing of past racist and sexist comments, saying, “[They are] the same issue here, isn’t it — about people being bullies trying to silence individuals who either don’t conform or think a little differently.”
The president has accused the media of photoshopping pictures to create the fake Melania conspiracy, while a spokesperson for the first lady called The View “Shameful.”
The Fake News photoshopped pictures of Melania, then propelled conspiracy theories that it’s actually not her by my side in Alabama and other places. They are only getting more deranged with time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2019
Watch above, via Fox News.
