The View Debates Carrie Underwood Performing at Trump Inauguration: ‘How Do You Support Somebody Who Wants to Destroy the Country?’

Gabriela Silva
·2-min read

Carrie Underwood’s decision to perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration was a hot topic on Tuesday’s edition of The View.

Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin had opposing views on the country singer’s choice to accept the invitation, with Griffin wanting to move past “where we ‘cancel’ people’s livelihood because we don’t like their politics,” recalling similar blowback faced by The Chicks (fka the Dixie Chicks) when they criticized President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

More from TVLine

ADVERTISEMENT

“If you have a problem, you register your complaint by not downloading [her] songs and not going to her shows,” Griffin opined. “I also think, from a business standpoint, it’s not a bad decision for Carrie Underwood. Seventy-five million people voted for Trump. Artists tend to skew left-leaning, so she’s overnight going to become an icon of MAGA in the American right. She’s probably going to make a lot of money off of it, so I get why she did it.”

In response, Behar accused Underwood of normalizing Trump by agreeing to appear at his inauguration.

“I wouldn’t do it,” she said. “I would not normalize him. [Underwood] says, ‘I love our country.’ How do you love your country and support and normalize somebody who’s a convicted felon who really wants to destroy the country?

“I would not be the person to say don’t do it because I believe in free speech and everything about it,” Behar stressed. “I, personally, would not do it.”

Watch the video below to see what fellow panelists Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin had to say about Underwood’s decision, then hit the comments with your reactions.

Best of TVLine

Sign up for TVLine's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Latest stories