The hosts of The view took issue with Donald Trump’s “flame” jokes at the Al Smith Dinner during Friday’s show, which they said were “awkward” and “didn’t land.”

“To see Donald Trump sitting there and us pretending that he’s some kind of upstanding citizen — I find that kind of insulting,” co-host Ana Navarro said of the former president’s invitation to New York City’s annual white tie dinner for Catholics charities. in New York.

Sunny Hostin added, “That is not a person that I think should be normalized by the Catholic Church,” as Trump “is against everything and is contrary to everything a Catholic believes and holds dear.”

“It is a tradition for both presidential candidates to come to this particular dinner, but sometimes there is a time to break tradition. You can’t have a criminal, a liar or a serial cheater (at a Catholic event),” she added. “He had Melania by his side – his third wife – who he cheated on with Stormy Daniels while she was pregnant.” Hostin was then forced to read a legal note stating that Trump has denied ever having an affair with Daniels.

Former Trump White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin said that despite the optics of Trump’s participation in the fundraiser, his jokes “didn’t land,” she said: “It was very awkward.”

Joy Behar, meanwhile, threw in her own joke in response after showing a clip of some of Trump’s comments at dinner: “A thug, a liar and a traitor walk into a Catholic event — that’s the joke,” she joked.

Behar also said she believes Kamala Harris should have attended the dinner instead of holding rallies, but Navarro disagreed. “The part I loved yesterday was Kamala Harris at that rally in Wisconsin,” she said as the hosts hyped the VP for taking down MAGA hecklers by joking, “I think you can go to the smaller one down the road wanted to go to the street.’

Finally, the hosts seemed to get a kick out of Trump airing his grievances about their “stupid show” during his time at the Al Smith dinner, in which he insulted their ratings and openly wished they would “bring Rosie O’Donnell back to take’. .”

Hostin said she enjoyed “living rent-free” in Trump’s mind: “I enjoy it. And I enjoy the fact that he’s admitted to watching the show at least three or four times now. Thanks, Donald, hello!”