The View co-hosts were not impressed with the warm welcome Andrew Tate and brother Tristan Tate received from UFC President Dana White over the weekend, which came amid their human trafficking investigation.
On this morning’s episode of the hit daytime talk show, all five co-hosts ripped into Tate, a self-proclaimed misogynist who espoused sexist viewpoints across his social media accounts before getting banned from platforms like Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.
With both men celebrating President Donald Trump‘s return to the White House, conservatives are claiming they are a “betrayal of the party’s values.”
“I think electing Donald Trump was a betrayal of the party’s values,” Ana Navarro said on The View. “We crossed that bridge already.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin then chimed in to say, “I loathe these guys so much. That is not what masculinity is. And men who think it is, newsflash: it is not. It is disgusting. It is bizarre,” noting that the brothers have received “pushback from credible Republicans” ever since they returned the United States from Romania, where they were being held on charges of human trafficking and forming an organized crime group.
“Gov. DeSantis, when they landed in Florida, said, ‘You are not welcome here,'” Griffin said. “The Florida Attorney General immediately opened an investigation into these guys. They’re being looked into for allegations of human trafficking.”
“For all the folks who [say], ‘Where are the Epstein files? Where are the Epstein files?’ Why do you praise these guys? Why do you follow them?” Griffin asked. “It’s sickening to me.”
The UFC president wasn’t the only one to happily welcome the Tate brothers to a cage-fighting event over the weekend. Vanderpump Rules star James Kennedy also took a selfie with them, but quickly apologized for the photo.
“I regret posting a photo with the Tate brothers at an event last night,” the reality star wrote on his Instagram Story after receiving backlash. “I was unfamiliar with their content and the allegations against them. I only knew them as podcasters [who] had posted a viral clip about Vanderpump. I have since educated myself and condemn their beliefs. I am sorry to all that I offended.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.