Trump White House slams Ana Navarro over Alligator Alcatraz comments

President Donald Trump’s White House is speaking out against The View cohost Ana Navarro after the Republican commentator chastised people who have been treating Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center as a tourist destination.

On Friday’s episode of The View, Navarro labeled those who sensationalize visits to the controversial locale — which has drawn intense criticism along with nationwide ICE raids — as “racist” and “horrible human” beings.

Reached for comment by Entertainment Weekly, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson issued a statement blasting Navarro’s remarks.

“Every time you think Ana Navaro [sic] can’t get any dumber, she proves you wrong,” the statement says.

Jackson continues, “The real ‘horrible human beings’ are the violent illegal criminals being held at Alligator Alcatraz, including murderers like an illegal alien who slit the throat of an elderly woman in Florida and set her house on fire.” (The statement also linked to a social media post outlining the alleged crimes, though EW could not immediately verify the validity of the allegations.)

“No one who has any interest in facts or logic should pay attention to whatever Ana is spewing on TV because it’s probably wrong or stupid or, most likely, both,” Jackson’s statement concludes.

EW has reached out to a representative for Navarro at The View for a response.

During an impassioned criticism of Alligator Alcatraz, Navarro told the View audience Friday morning that she believes the detention facility to be part of a bigger plot to whitewash the country.

“If you’re out there in the Everglades, driving out there and getting out of your car to take a picture as if it were the Eiffel Tower, you are a racist and you are a horrible human being,” she said, while the studio audience applauded.

“This is not just about undocumented immigrants,” Navarro continued. “When you’re taking away temporary protective status, when you’re putting legal, permanent residents, detaining and deporting them, when you’re threatening U.S. citizens that you don’t like that you’re going to take away their citizenship — naturalized ones — when you’re talking about birthright citizenship and taking that away, this is not about going after the criminals and the gang members, this is about making America white again and otherizing everybody who’s an immigrant.”

Navarro and her fellow panelists have long spoken out against Trump and his administration, though current View cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin previously worked under Trump during his first presidential term.

The president has taken aim at The View cohosts in the past, even going as far as to call moderator Whoopi Goldberg’s comedy “filthy dirty” and the rest of the panelists “really dumb people” in the run-up to the 2024 election.

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Griffin eventually resigned from Trump’s first administration and subsequently spoke out against him, and even spoke to prosecutors in 2023 in a massive probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.