Ana Navarro On Trump’s Hispanic Heritage Month Event: ‘Disgusting’

The View: Behind the Table

Ana Navarro joins Brian Teta to strongly criticize President Trump's Hispanic Heritage Month event, condemning the attendees and detailing how ICE policies, family separations, and deportations have triggered a massive polling drop

Key takeaways

• Ana Navarro calls Trump's Hispanic Heritage Month event 'disgusting,' citing ICE raids, detention center conditions, and deportations to conflict zones like Yemen and Sudan as reasons for Latino backlash.
• Polling data indicates Trump has lost 40-50 points with Latino voters, particularly men, due to economic pressures and perceived policy cruelty toward immigrant communities.

Main topics

• Trump's Hispanic Heritage Month event & Latino polling
• Midterm election predictions & swing state races

Notable quotes

"if he wants to honor Hispanics, he should start by stopping the killing of Hispanics and the wounding of Hispanics and the shooting of Hispanics and torturing and racially profiling them by his ICE agents."

Conclusion

The episode underscores the deepening political fracture within Latino communities

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) On October 19th, 2025, the Louvre became the backdrop of something straight out of a heist movie. In this series, I'll take you inside the events of that day, through the eyes of the people who lived them. Then, I'll join the international hunt for the Louvre jewels. Heist at the Louvre, a new series from ABC Audio. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favourite podcast app. or subscribe to 2020 True Crime Plus on Apple Podcasts to listen ad-free. All Speaker 4 (0:30) right, it is Thursday. I am here with Anna Navarro on the preferred day of Anna and all of our fans. I get a lot of, where's Anna, where's Anna on Thursdays. You're on Monday, it throws them off. I don't like Speaker 3 (0:41) Mondays either. Speaker 4 (0:54) All right, let's start with some politics because that's what the people want. President Trump hosted a Hispanic Heritage Month event on Wednesday. It's good that he's honoring the month. Tell us your thoughts about what happened. Speaker 3 (1:06) Listen, if he wants to honor Hispanics, he should start by stopping the killing of Hispanics and the wounding of Hispanics and the shooting of Hispanics and torturing and racially profiling them by his ICE agents. It's, you know, it's amazing to me. the amount of people that have died under ICE custody. It's amazing to me that there are people willing to go to this White House that is doing horrible things, particularly to the Latino community, and be such sellouts and stand there and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month out of all things, while we all see with our own eyes what he is doing to the Latino community in this country. We see the racism. Speaker 4 (1:52) The comment he made. What was the comment about? Speaker 3 (1:57) The comment was telling somebody not to be to be careful because they could fall. And he said, and only a Latino could survive such a fall. And of course, I think he was making a reference to like, you know, Latinos falling off, doing construction work and falling off the roof. And by the way, we actually saw that happen in one of the immigration raids in California where somebody was. Speaker 3 (2:21) seriously injured. It's just horrible. It's inappropriate. And I, you know, if you look at the polls right now, Donald Trump has lost incredible numbers with Hispanics. And let's just begin by saying that he had made historic headway with Latinos in 2024, much more so than any other Republican. But he's lost all that. and more. He's lost, and the polls I see are anywhere between 40 and 50 points he's lost in standing with Latinos, particularly Latino men. And people might ask themselves, why is that happening? Well, it's the economy, right? Hispanics, like everybody else, care about the cost of gas and the mortgage rate and not being able to pay for groceries and the cost of meat and all of the things that every single American is dealing with. But then add to that That we are seeing our families separated. We are seeing the extreme suffering going on in our communities, the fear in our children. We are seeing our children held in deplorable conditions in detention centers like the one outside of San Antonio. We are seeing our people deported to far off places in Africa like Yemen and Sudan, places that are in the middle of civil war. We are seeing that in Puerto Rico, there are people going without water and electricity. That is a part of the United States. So we are seeing the extreme cruelty. We are seeing the betrayal of the Venezuelan people who voted for him. And now he's standing next to Maduro's vice president. He has empowered the Maduro regime, everything but Maduro. We are seeing what's happening in Cuba. With no end. People starving. People doing. And I don't know what the plan is. I want to see it liberated more than anybody. But I don't know what the plan is. All I see right now is human suffering. So you want to know why he's lost 50 points with Latinos? Because of that. And so for there to be Latino sellouts. Latino sellouts. Standing at that White House. Celebrating. Like if all of this wasn't happening. Like let them eat cake. Or I guess let them eat tacos. I just, it's disgusting to me. Speaker 4 (4:38) I've asked a couple people this, and, you know, there's still time before the midterms, but the polling is really unbelievable. Yeah. Do you feel, like, very confident that the Democrats are going to have this blue wave? Or do you think it's, you don't count chickens at this point? If you had a prediction right now? Speaker 3 (4:55) You know, I feel very confident that the Democrats will retake the House. Speaker 4 (4:58) Right. The Senate's more questionable. The Speaker 3 (5:00) Senate's more questionable in some of these governor's races. But I mean, the polls that I'm seeing are crazy. You know, in Florida, there's polls showing a dead heat between the gubernatorial races. In my district. there's a dead heat for the congressional seat. In Texas, there seems to be a dead heat for the Senate race, Tallarico versus Paxton, and the governor's race, Hinojosa versus Abbott. Now, part of me feels like... Speaker 3 (5:33) Part of me feels I'm scarred because I feel like I've been hearing for so long. Oh, this is the year that Texas is going to turn. This is the year that, you know, that Florida, all of those things. And so I am highly skeptical. I think I think I feel like like that Charlie Brown little girl. Yeah. You know, it's like I feel like I've had the football pulled from in front of me for so many times that I almost have a hard time having faith and wanting to really. you know believe that but It's but I will tell you, it does something to me. Right. Because I had not been paying attention to the Florida races. I had not been paying attention to the Florida governor's race, thinking there's no way that, you know, that the Republican won't win. And then I see these polls and I wake up and I start wanting to find out more about the race, wanting to find out more. Right. And you're probably more Speaker 4 (6:29) politically motivated and knowledgeable than most people. Speaker 3 (6:35) I realized I knew precious little about about either of the candidates. I mean, I've seen more of the Republican because he's on TV a lot. He's been on TV a lot. Byron Donald, who was in Congress. I know precious little about the Democrat, David Jolly. I. called his office and it just so happened that he was in New York yesterday. So I just did a podcast interview and I was asking him policy questions that frankly, I didn't know the answer to and that I feel are important about issues that people care about, about health care, about property insurance, about the cost of housing, about affordability. And, you know, and