The View Mocks Trump For Selling Merch While Claiming Americans Can’t Afford Necessities: ‘One-Man Shopping Network’

The co-hosts of ABC’s The View had a field day over all the overpriced merchandise being sold by former President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump — all while they both claim the economy is in terrible shape.

The cue came from Mrs. Trump’s comments on Thursday during her Fox News interview, which she did because she had a book coming out and wants people to buy it with their money — money she said that a lot of Americans don’t have: “The country is suffering. People are not able to buy the usual necessities for their families.”

Co-host Joy Behar said: “This talk of economic doom and gloom hasn’t seemed to stop her from hawking a $600 necklace to the same Americans. And her husband is a one-man shopping network right now.” She then played a montage of former President Donald Trump’s merch-pushing, including watches, coins, sneakers, Bibles, pieces of his suits, digital trading cards/NFTs, or any of the other merch that may or may not be going towards his legal bills and/or his campaign and/or into his own pocket.

The co-hosts of The View laced into both Trumps over their conflicted messaging, with Sara Haines asking, “Who buys this stuff?”

Co-host and former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin explained the grift in a nutshell:

To know Donald Trump is to know that he’s driven by profit and by money. I remember being in Las Vegas staffing something with him, and he’s like, “Don’t eat at Steve Wynn’s restaurant, you have to eat at mine.” And of course, it was wildly expensive, not very good, and not that much fun of an evening. But that’s Donald Trump.

Watch the video above via ABC.

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