Former Donald Trump White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin issued her ex-boss a stark warning of what’s to come if he doesn’t pump the brakes on some of his sweeping policies and start bringing down the price of those eggs.
Griffin has taken up the mantle as The View’s lone conservative on the panel post Trump’s re-election—a position she made clear in one tense exchange with Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Wednesday. But even she had some strong words for the president on Thursday’s episode.
The co-host began by echoing former Vice President Mike Pence—who she worked for prior to becoming Trump’s aide—after he blasted Trump for claiming Ukraine was to blame for Russia’s invasion and calling its president Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator.”
“America does not have a king,” she said. “Donald Trump is not a king. Ukraine is not run by a dictator, it is run by the duly-elected president, Zelensky.”
“I would really caution Trump-world against over-interpreting the endorsement of him winning to mean that he can just do anything,” Griffin continued. “He does have a historically high approval rating with the Republican Party right now, but it’s already dropping in his first month in office by nearly seven points.”
Griffin said if Trump keeps on the same path, that approval could easily evaporate.
“If he treats our allies worse than our enemies, that is going to backfire even with his own party, but broadly, with the country,” she argued. “If he doesn’t address the things he was elected to do, the cost of living—and instead puts in place trade wars that raise the cost of living—that is going to backfire.”
Griffin has long insisted that Trump won the election because more Americans trusted him to handle the economy and immigration, but she had a different tone about his immigration moves on Thursday.
“If he comes after things like birthright citizenship, where there are voters who voted for him in this country who support him, who are citizens because of birthright citizenship, it will backfire,” she added. “So I just would caution him and those around him of thinking that they have this sweeping endorsement to do anything that they want. There are guardrails in place and the American public will reject it.”
