NEW YORK — The hosts of ABC's ''The View'' clapped back at Donald Trump on Thursday, a day after the Republican nominee for president insulted co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg.
''I have a personal legal note,'' said Hostin. ''Donald Trump, I want to thank you for personally telling so many lies and committing so many alleged crimes and providing us with material on a daily basis. You help us do our jobs and I'm so appreciative.''
On Wednesday, Trump, campaigning in Pennsylvania, called Hostin, who is Black and Latina, ''dumber than Kamala,'' saying: ''That is one dumb woman. Sorry. I'm sorry, women, she's a dummy.''
Later, he turned on Goldberg, who is also Black, calling her ''demented.'' Trump claimed he once hired Goldberg to perform and accused her of having a ''foul mouth.''
''She was so filthy, dirty, disgusting, half the place left. I said I'd never hire her again,'' he said. ''She was so dirty. Every word was filthy, dirty. What a loser she is.''
Goldberg on Thursday wore it as a badge of honor. ''I was filthy and stand on that fact. I have always been filthy. And you knew that when you hired me.'' Goldberg said Trump hired her four times: ''How dumb are you?''
''You know how dirty I wasn't? I never grabbed anybody by their genitalia,'' she also said, referencing the ''Access Hollywood'' video in which Trump bragged about grabbing women sexually without asking permission.
"There's a difference between people who assault other people and people who say words that you don't want little kids saying in the middle of church.''
