‘The View’ co-host Sunny Hostin calls President Trump a ‘DEI hire’ [Video]

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin called President Donald Trump a “DEI hire” on Monday while reacting to his inauguration and pointed to the “hypocrisy” of his announcement that he would be getting rid of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies.

“The one thing I did think about was the hypocrisy of having a man be inaugurated to be president on the same day as we commemorate MLK, and that same man saying that he was going to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion,” Hostin said. “Because Martin Luther King not only wanted racial equality, he wanted economic equality. And that is something people tend to miss.”

“I want to remind people that he said that Black Americans deserve reparations for the injustices they face. He argued that reparations were a form of justice, in fact, not charity, and he said, quote, ‘it’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own …