The View Laments the State of Discourse in Trump’s America: ‘We’re All Stomping Around’ in the Swamp

The View today started the show with a segment that quickly turned into a meditation on discourse in Trump’s America.

They kicked off with the Twitter feud between President Trump and Morning Joe after the President missed the irony of him attacking anyone else for making up crap about a woman’s facelift:

The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania. During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018

…Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting. They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever. Fake News is really bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018

I agree that it would be “vicious” and “unfair” to lie about a loved one having a facelift for the purpose of causing pain and embarrassment. Mr. President, can you imagine anyone would be so cruel to do such a thing? https://t.co/zfqjt1LKw2

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 6, 2018

I can’t even imagine. https://t.co/WrwlEc37OH

— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) June 6, 2018

Meghan McCain said there has been irresponsible media speculation on the First Lady’s health and cited this tweet from the Atlantic‘s David Frum as an example:

Suppose President Trump punched the First Lady in the White House (federal property = federal jurisdiction), then ordered the Secret Service to conceal the assault. POTUS has Article II authority over Secret Service. Is that obstruction? Under Sekulow/Dowd, apparently NO

— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 2, 2018

Sunny Hostin noted the “coarsening of the [Republican] party” under Trump’s leadership and said more broadly, “I really think that Donald Trump has coarsened the dialogue in our country so much that he is singularly responsible for the tenor that we are seeing today.”

Sara Haines argued that if Trump “ever caused me to be the ugliest version of myself,” she would blame herself

McCain asked what happened to “when they go low we go high,” and Whoopi Goldberg said, “That’s exactly how he got elected. Everybody went low… No one said, ‘Hey! The discourse is not okay!'”

Goldberg added, “It just kind of whooshed over us, and I think people are starting to go, ‘You know, the swamp that was supposed to be drained––now we’re all stomping around in it.'”

Watch above, via ABC.

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