Ana Navarro-Cárdenas, a co-host of ABC’s The View, posted a racist comment on Twitter early Sunday, slamming “rich white ppl” who pay to join former President Donald Trump’s “tacky” Mar-a-Lago club.
Navarro-Cárdenas tweeted a photo from Trump’s indictment, which prosecutors released Friday, and which shows boxes of documents in a bathroom that has a chandelier. She added race to a comment on décor:
Can we take a sec to talk re how tacky MAL is. Using that dated, low-to-the-ground 🚽 counts as a squat, a cheap plastic shower rod, that wastebasket, that shower curtain…
This is a private club rich white ppl pay +$250k to belong to. Seen nicer bathrooms in gas stations.🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/0qXN9aSrgS
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) June 11, 2023
Navarro-Cárdenas is Hispanic; her husband, Al Cárdenas, is the former chair of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and was the first Latino chair of the American Conservative Union, which runs it.
Navarro-Cárdenas was a prominent supporter of former Florida governor Jeb Bush during the 2016 election, and broke with her party after it nominated Trump, who went on to win the election. She remained a critic of Trump and Republicans thereafter, though she often is presented as if she represents the party as a whole on various television shows and discussion panels. She has made controversial racial comments in the recent past.
“Look, being Hispanic or being black does not, or being anything does not make you immune from being racist,” she said last month, commenting on a mass shooting in Texas carried out by a Hispanic suspect.
The View is one of the top-rated daytime TV shows, particularly among women, and attracts a diverse audience.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.