‘The View’ stars shut down Savannah Chrisley on air again over Donald Trump racism claims

For the second day in a row, the stars of The View have collectively clashed with guest cohost, reality TV star, and Donald Trump supporter Savannah Chrisley.

The moment came Thursday during a tense debate over Donald Trump’s handling of DEI initiatives amid Black History Month after moderator Whoopi Goldberg said the president “is being accused of sending mixed messages on the issue” after a judge ordered his administration to replace the slavery exhibit he had removed from a historic Philadelphia site ahead of Trump praising rapper and MAGA supporter Nicki Minaj.

After the show played a clip of Trump speaking at an event earlier this week — in which he said he loves Minaj because she’s “beautiful” and expressed adoration for her long nails — Chrisley, filling in for conservative cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin during her maternity leave, said it was “hard” for her to see people accuse Trump of being racist. Her assertion comes after Trump granted a pardon for her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion in 2022 and sentenced to 19 years in prison.

“I’ve seen him firsthand,” the Chrisley Knows Best star said, pointing out that Trump has had platonic relationships with Black people in the past.

“He is a racist,” permanent cohost Sunny Hostin emphatically alleged on the show. “So he has a Black friend. He’s a racist.”

Goldberg jumped in to advise Chrisley on the matter. “Here’s the problem, Savannah,” she said, before elaborating on Trump targeting “DEI programs with executive orders” during his second-term presidency. She also pointed to him sharing “racist posts about the Obamas,” referring to Trump’s Truth Social account recently amplifying a video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

Later, Hostin alleged again that Trump is a racist.

“Let’s call a thing a thing. Donald Trump is a racist. There’s no question in my mind,” Hostin said. “The most recent thing that he did by posting on Truth Social the Obamas depicted as apes in The Lion King, [when] there are no apes in The Lion King, that was a racist act. He tried to blame a staffer.”

Chrisley defended Trump, telling Hostin, “It was in fact a staffer who posted it.”

Hostin then called for the View crew to play a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt telling reporters Wednesday, “When you see it on Truth Social, you know it’s directly from President Trump.”

Hostin again alleged that “President Trump is a racist,” to which Chrisley pushed back, telling Hostin, “He is not.”