The View host mercilessly mocks Donald Trump’s assassination injury by claiming his ear bandage ‘should have been over his mouth’ during Republican Convention speech

The View co-host Ana Navarro is drawing criticism for mocking Donald Trump’s ear damage following an assassination attempt over the weekend.

Navarro, one of Trump’s leading critics, said on the show Friday that she would have preferred the bandage covering Trump’s ear to have been placed over his mouth.

The spot followed the former president’s hour-and-a-half speech at the Republican Party convention on Thursday night, after officially becoming the party’s nominee on Monday.

It was also his first speech since 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, a potential assassin, shot Trump in the ear before being taken out by the Secret Service at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last Saturday.

“What we saw yesterday was a replay of Trump’s 90-minute rallies,” Navarro said.

“Too bad the bandage was just over his ear. It should have been over his mouth,” she added, as the studio audience laughed.

The 52-year-old joked about Trump’s statement that God was on his side after he survived the assassination attempt: “God should have pulled the plug on that microphone yesterday.”

Online critics called for the show’s cancellation in response to Navarro’s comments.

She also suggested on Friday’s episode that Trump’s speech was more indicative of mental instability than President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate and subsequent slip-ups that called his fitness for office into question.

Navarro, a Republican who has never called himself a Trump fan and votes Democratic, claims that if Biden gave the same speech Trump did to Congress, he would be “led out to a police car by men in white coats.”

In the same episode, Joy Behar described Trump as “very narcissistic” after he claimed he survived the assassination attempt because God was “on his side.”

There is now a growing group demanding that the longtime co-host of The View be fired.

The former president, 78, acknowledged his Christian faith during his speech at the Republican Party Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin earlier this week.

Behar, 81, criticized Trump’s lengthy statement during Friday’s episode, calling his words “deeply unChristian” and “disturbing.”

Before taking the ABC show to a commercial break, she said, “What I want to emphasize is one thing. I’m speaking to fellow Christians, I was raised Catholic. I’m a Christian girl.

“When something like this happens to you, like this attempted murder, and you say something like, ‘God was watching me,’ that is very unchristian, because it is very narcissistic.”

Sitting next to her co-stars Navarro, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Fara Griffin, she continued, “What about Corey? [Comperatore]? What’s his name? Comperatore, the fireman who also [killed]?

“What about all those guys that got killed at Sandy Hook? All those people?”

“Oh, God was looking at me and not them?” That’s very disturbing.

Angry viewers demanded Behar be removed from The View after claiming she “attacked an entire religious base.”

“If there was ever an example of someone who is NOT a Christian, it’s Joy Behar. She needs to stop claiming she is… She should be fired. Hateful person,” one person wrote.

Another posted: ‘Please shut the hell up. How is The View still on the air?!?’

A third said: ‘Joy clearly knew nothing about being a Christian and perhaps should look into how God feels about people who speak for Him but don’t know Him.

“She should start by understanding that God wanted to kill Job’s friends because of their nonsense. We are actually witnesses to God’s work.”

“What an unnecessary remark!” cried a fourth. “Of course any reasonable man would say, ‘God was with me,’ if such a thing happened to him.

“And she couldn’t even remember Corey’s last name before she made this pre-made comment. Ugly!”

A fifth joked: ‘Noted Christianity expert Joy Behar.’

A sixth lashed out at Joy Behar: ‘The View told Joy Behar that ‘GOD’ was watching over me when I almost died of an overdose so if that is a very unchristian thing to say then she should be FIRED immediately!!! She just attacked an entire religious base!’

The announcement follows growing calls for MSNBC host Joy Reid to be taken off the air after she shared inflammatory theories about the attempted assassination of Trump.

Reid, 55, twice angered critics when she shared a video with X in which she suggested he had not been shot at all.

After President Biden tested positive for Covid a few days later, Reid said in a broadcast that the Democrat’s confrontation with the virus was as heroic as Trump’s response when he narrowly dodged a bullet.

On Thursday evening, Trump spoke at length about the July 13 assassination attempt that killed Corey Comperatore, a father of two.

During his speech, he said, “The bullets kept flying as brave Secret Service agents ran to the stage and jumped on top of me to protect me.

‘There was blood everywhere, and yet I felt safe in a way, because I had God on my side.

‘The amazing thing is that if I hadn’t moved my head at the very last moment before the shot, the assassin’s bullet would have hit its target and I wouldn’t be here tonight.’

On Saturday, Trump raised his fist in the air as blood streamed down his face, seconds after he was shot in the ear by gunman Crooks at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

He survived the assassination attempt when the bullet narrowly missed him.

That happened eight minutes after he took the stage, at 6:03 p.m. (Eastern Time).

Crooks opened fire from a rooftop 400 feet (120 meters) from where the former president stood on stage and addressed thousands of fans.

He was shot dead in the incident, moments after shooting Comperatore.

It’s not just angry viewers calling for Joy’s dismissal.