Wanda Sykes roasted Donald Trump about the sexual assault allegations against him on Thursday’s episode of The View.
The daytime talk show’s co-host Joy Behar asked Sykes, 60, about her thoughts on the possibility of Trump winning the 2024 presidential election, to which she jokingly replied, “Well, maybe we could share a cell.”
At least 26 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, including assault, since the 1970s. An anti-Trump campaign released ads on Tuesday featuring testimonies from Natasha Stoynoff and Jessica Leeds, who have accused Trump of forcing himself on them and inappropriately touching them.
The View hosts also asked Sykes about Melania Trump’s new Fox News interview where she gushed over Donald’s “humor, personality kindness, and positivity.”
“But he’s kind and sweet,” Behar referenced Melania’s comments.
(Left, middle, right) Melania Trump, Donald Trump, and Wanda Sykes
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“Well, he’s all those things when he’s not sexually assaulting women,” Skykes responded to a collective “ooh” from the live studio audience.
Before her jaw-dropping diss, Sykes also applauded Kamala Harris seemingly calling Trump a “motherf–ker” during the September 10 presidential debate.
“I had to turn the closed captions on,” Sykes said about the viral moment. “I thought she said it.”
Elsewhere in the show, Behar said she envisioned how Melania Trump’s recent interview would’ve gone if the late Barbara Walters was still alive.
“I thought if Barbara were here today, she would have said to her, ‘Melania, your husband had sex with a porn star while you were home with a baby. How do you feel about that?'”
Anti-Trump campaign Ads
One of the new ads produced by George Conway‘s Anti-Psychopath PAC includes testimony from Stoynoff, a former writer at People magazine, reflecting on her visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2005.
During her visit to interview Donald and Melania Trump, Stoynoff alleges that Trump took her into another room, pressed her against the wall, and kissed her without consent. She claims he only stopped when a butler entered, after which he suggested they were “going to have an affair.”
Stoynoff also describes Trump as a “predator of women” and an “adjudicated sexual assaulter” in the ad.
Leeds’ ad features the former saleswoman and stockbroker sharing her account of allegedly being groped by Trump on a plane in 1979.
Leeds describes being invited to sit in first class next to Trump, where he reportedly groped her and slipped his hand up her skirt. Disturbed by the encounter, she returned to her original seat.
Months later, at a fundraiser, Leeds recalls Trump allegedly recognizing her from the flight and calling her horrible word.
Leavitt told Newsweek: “This is another sad, desperate attempt by Kamala’s cronies to gaslight the American people because they know they can’t stop President Trump from retaking the White House.
Leavitt added: “The reality is that the negative portrayal of President Trump and his treatment of women by the media and Democrats like Conway is entirely false. President Trump is loved by millions of women across the country, and those who know him personally, myself included, will tell you he’s supportive, generous, and kind.”
Leavitt also told Newsweek: “President Trump’s first-term economic policies uplifted women by putting more money in our pockets, and he also made expanding access to childcare and paid family leave top priorities in his administration, and he will do so again.”
The Trump campaign issued a response to Newsweek regarding these ads, with National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stating, “George Conway is completely out of touch and clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, which has clouded his judgment.”
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