Joy Behar compared President Donald Trump to “King Kong” on a Wednesday episode of “The View” and said she’s “worried” about what the president is “going to do next.”
The comment after Trump’s Tuesday speech at the United Nations General Assembly was met with laughter from world leaders as the president spoke about his administration’s accomplishments in comparison to the Obama administration.
“But the problem with him is that his skin is so thin, you can see through it,” Behar shared. “So last time that Obama made fun of him at the correspondents’ dinner, he’s done everything to overturn everything Obama has done.”
“He’s a very vindictive man,” she added. “So I’m worried about what he’s going to do next just because he doesn’t — and also they didn’t show the part — did you show the part where he says, ‘And that’s okay’? Did we see that?”
They then cut to a clip of Trump saying that the moment was meant to get a laugh.
“First he said, ‘I didn’t expect that response,’ and then he said, ‘I did it on purpose.’ He’s such a liar,” Behar replied. “He lies about everything.”
“I still think he was mortified,” Abby Huntsman explained. “He’s still a human being. You’re sitting up there and the problem was this was a speech that he gives to Springfield, Missouri which had a two-mile-long line to get into that event. This is a campaign speech and it’s about patriotism and we’re so tired of being taken advantage of.”
“That works in that setting but you got to know your audience,” she added. “When you’re speaking to world leaders like Justin Trudeau, who — there are people in that room that he’s written on Twitter saying, ‘He’s very dishonest and he’s weak’ back in June, talking about her allies.”
Huntsman continued, “At the same time he tweeted about the President of Iran, saying, ‘I’m sure he’s an absolutely lovely man.’ There’s a weird thing going on where he seems to be praising the leader of North Korea and China and Iran and then you criticize our allies all for making progress in these parts of the world but not at a cost of ruining relations with people who matter the most to us.”
“But they were laughing at the braggadocio. ‘No president has ever done a job like me’. He’s like King Kong…ah a ha..ha..ah,” Behar concluded as she beat her chest.
