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Conservative activist Amanda Carpenter clarified on The View why she doesn’t align herself with President Trump’s particular brand of conservatism after seeing his recent State of the Union address.
While the ladies of The View unpacked his two-and-a-half-hour-long speech, Carpenter said, “A lot of people get confused when I say I’m a conservative and not MAGA.”
“What you saw on that split screen, that partisan tribalism, that is different from being conservative,” she explained.
Carpenter went on to criticize Trump for singling U.S. State Rep. Ilhan Omar during his speech as he promised not to go “easy” on Minnesota.
“On the reality TV aspect, it is so uncomfortable to see how expertly he continues to create villains on stage,” Carpenter ranted. After admitting that she previously felt “iffy” about Democrats who planned to skip Trump’s address, she has since changed her mind after seeing him attack Omar and her constituents. “Then, when I saw Ilhan Omar get singled out like that. I know what’s gonna happen, he got that split screen, and when he was talking about Minnesota and saying, ‘We’re not gonna go easy on them.’ Who thinks he’s been easy on them?”
She pointed out that Omar began to shout back, “You’ve killed Americans!” However, it was difficult to hear what she said in the broadcast.
Photo: ABC“So, it’s such an unfair dynamic and we’ve got to find ways not to participate in that and give him that unfair advantage,” Carpenter continued. “I just can’t believe we haven’t learned this lesson after 10+ years.”
Joy Behar, who also watched the entire speech, said she felt “physically ill from it and more nauseous than usual watching him.”
“The way he was demonizing immigrants made me sick,” she complained.
Carpenter shocked Behar on the show earlier this week after she criticized Democrats for not standing up to Trump’s ICE crackdown on the show. “I’m curious to see what the Democrats will do because I just don’t feel like they’ve matched the energy of the activists there,” she said. “I need them to match that energy of the people who were in the streets.”
“I thought you were a conservative?” Behar asked Carpenter.
Carpenter, who is temporarily filling in for Alyssa Farah Griffin this week, explained that she is working with Protect Democracy to file a lawsuit against “DHS representing people in Maine because they were exercising their legal rights to observe ICE activity.”
“I’m a conservative because I’m terrified of out-of-control government, and I see this in the streets,” she explained on the show, later adding, “I need the Democrats to do more than wear a pantsuit, expressing solidarity, or waving a sign. They need to do something to push back on this.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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