The View co-host Ana Navarro blasted critics of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show as “racists” and quipped that President Donald Trump would sign an executive order “banning black people from halftime.”
Lamar performed Sunday night during halftime at the Super Bowl, and younger fans cheered his performance while other football watchers panned it.
“You know I don’t do sports, you know I don’t do football, so I wasn’t watching the game, but, listen, I think today, Donald Trump is going to sign an executive order banning black people from halftime,” Navarro joked on Monday.
“You remember last week we were talking about whether the NFL was capitulating to Trump by removing the term ‘end racism’ from the end zone?” she said. “Boy, did they not capitulate to Trump.”
Navarro cheered Lamar’s use of his dancers wearing red, white and blue to form an American flag.
“When I saw Samuel L. Jackson dressed as a black Uncle Sam introducing Kendrick Lamar, who then had an entire formation of all black people making a U.S. flag, listen, this much I know: all the black people on my feed were like, ‘Ooh, this is blackity black black,’” Navarro continued.
“All the racists who somehow get in, they were hopping mad,” she declared. “If the racists are mad, I’m happy as a clam.
“Welcome to Black History Month, you all,” Navarro cheered.
Co-host Sunny Hostin praised Lamar’s performance, calling it “black excellence.”
“With all these attacks on diversity, all these attacks on African Americans, it was so nice to see black excellence enjoyed in front of the sitting president who decided for the first time to go to the Super Bowl,” Hostin said taking swipes at Trump.
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“A lot of people said they didn’t understand his performance,” Hostin added. “Guys, he’s an award-winning, a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and poet, OK? It was a many-layered performance. You had Serena Williams crip-walking. Also, what I really enjoyed about Kendrick’s performance is it was performance art, if you really looked at it. It was multilayered. Yes, he had people dressed in red, white, and blue, the colors of the flag, but he also … was standing in front of them because he’s explaining that this is a divided country at this point. He also has them leaning to the side because this country was built on the backs of black people. It was a multilayered performance.”
The Super Bowl ended with the Philadelphia Eagles beating the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22.
