"The Booing Is F***ing Us Up": 'The View' Melts Down Over Donald Trump Jr. Visit

[demmiblue]

Guests clashed with hosts and hosts clashed with audience members at the ABC show on Thursday.

"The booing is fucking us up," The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg told the morning show's audience during a commercial break on Thursday. "It's messing with everyone's mic. You can grimace and all that. All we hear is booing."

Goldberg was trying to restore a sense of calm and civility after a rancorous first interview segment with Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle. (The Hollywood Reporter attended the show as a member of the audience and took notes.)

Booing is a no-no for members of the show's audience, but the crowd on Thursday alternatively booed and cheered as Trump and Guilfoyle clashed with members of the show's cast, including Joy Behar, Abby Huntsman, Sunny Hostin and Meghan McCain.

The front rows were stocked with audience members who seemed to be mostly supportive of the First Son, including a man wearing a Trump hat who asked, "Who killed Epstein?," during a commercial break at the end of the show.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/booing-is-fing-us-up-view-melts-down-donald-trump-jr-visit-1253109

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. They're saying "booooo-urns, booooo-urns." NT

[Initech]

2. ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Thanks. You saved me from having to look that up. NT

[Docreed2003]

4. Lol!!

[Docreed2003]

3. Does every member of that family have bizarre posture?

He looks like he has a ramrod up his ass like a doll or something. It doesn't look natural or comfortable.

[RainCaster]

5. For him, that's very natural

[Champion Jack]

6. It's his dad's hand...

[Docreed2003]

9. Lmao!

[lunatica]

10. I think Don Sr. And Jr. are swaybacks.

That would explain a lot.

[demmiblue]

11. ...

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Marie Allegro, a New York-based trainer and bodybuilding staging coach, agreed that Don Jr. is an average-sized guy who is trying to look far bigger: “Some guys are insecure about their physique and try to make themselves look bigger by standing and walking with their feet really wide like they’re bowlegged.”

Why do men do this, since it’s clear from just looking at them that they could actually put their arms down if they wanted to? Faustin has a hunch.

“With Donald Trump Jr., I feel like his life is plagued with insecurities, so trying to measure up to his father’s approval, he wants to be that big strong man.”

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The Trump brand of masculinity similarly values the projection of strength even when the whole world can see that it’s a clumsy front. “When guys have low confidence levels, they’ll try to make themselves look bigger or larger than life by over exaggerating themselves, and that makes them look worse,” Allegro noted. “It’s unfortunate. It takes a very confident and very secure man to feel comfortable in their skin.”

https://theslot.jezebel.com/we-asked-women-body-builders-about-donald-trump-jr-s-po-1835802407

[Silver1]

14. How bizarre!

[Ilsa]

16. All 4 of them look pregnant. nt

[RainCaster]

7. Will the View ever learn? When you invite a MAGAt, you get repugnance

Bigly!

[Maru Kitteh]

12. The spore doesn't fall far from the ol' mushroom, does it!

Dude looks like a f'n circus monkey. Clang on little spore - clang on.

[dem4decades]

15. The shit doesn't fall far from the shit pile either.

[Meadowoak]

13. I loved the booing!

[Initech]

17. I really don't care. Do U?