‘View’ Hosts Savage Katie Britt’s State of the Union Response: ‘She Should Be in a Padded Room’

Ana Navarro and the co-hosts of The View were not impressed by Sen. Katie Britt’s (R-AL) Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday night.

Britt’s speech was standard Republican fare. Her delivery, however, left viewers across the political spectrum bewildered if not terrified. The “completely weird” speech was widely panned and mocked online as being “somewhere between porn and [a] high school play.” Indeed, Britt’s voice hit a variety of emotions and notes, from hopeful whispers to furious admonitions.

The senator delivered the speech while sitting in her kitchen, a decision that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) explained was intended to show that his fellow Alabama senator is a “housewife.”

Here is a sampling of reactions from Navarro, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, and Sunny Hostin:

BEHAR: Get some medication, Katie. I haven’t seen acting that bad since my wedding night. So, which genius in that party decided that she was the perfect spokesperson? I’ve never seen mood swings like this. One minute she’s like [sobbing noise], then she’s like gonna take a knife and stab you. Then she’s laughing like an idiot. What is wrong with her? She’s like Sybil.

GRIFFIN: A disaster from start to finish… It’s International Women’s Day and we put the senator in the kitchen. Like, women can be wives, they can be moms. They don’t put her in front of a podium. It was– I was hearing from Republican women everywhere like, “What? Why did they choose this? Why did she not say, ‘Put me anywhere else’?

HAINES: What is she auditioning for, though? I don’t think she’s getting a callback.

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GRIFFIN: And I think they were thinking like Ronald Reagan. Like, all great change in America happens at the dinner table, but instead, it gave like, creepy Lifetime movies.

BEHAR: The girl needs mood elevators.

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NAVARRO: I don’t even know how you were able to notice she was in a kitchen because I was so incredibly distracted by what I was watching, right? The only thing that worried me about her being in a kitchen is that she had knives because I thought she could go Chuckie on me at any time. You know, when she started, it was giving me like a Real Housewives–

HAINES: Sunny: Or Get Out.

NAVARRO: And then it went from Real Housewives confessional having a, you know, breakdown to Sybil, the movie from ’76 about a lady with multiple personality disorder. And I’m thinking to myself, this lady shouldn’t be in a kitchen. She should be in a padded room.

HOSTIN: You know, it was giving, like, she wanted to call the manager on America.

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BEHAR: Well, the acting was really deplorable.

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