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“Sir, you’re from Alabama”: “The View” roasts Tuberville’s definition of a “white nationalist”

The Alabama senator said that "it's some people's opinion" that white nationalists are racist

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U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks at a press conference on student loans at the U.S. Capitol on June 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks at a press conference on student loans at the U.S. Capitol on June 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“The View” hosts shared strong responses to a Republican lawmaker’s recent remark claiming that “it’s some people’s opinion” that white nationalists are racist. During a recent interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about white nationalism in the United States military, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville offered a tepid definition of what a white nationalist actually is. “My opinion of a white nationalist, if someone wants to call them white nationalist, to me is an American,” Tuberville told Collins. 

This statement stunned the hosts of “The View,” who discussed the segment on-air on Tuesday morning. “Sir, you’re from Alabama,” Host Whoopi Goldberg said. “You know exactly what we’re saying. You know exactly what we’re talking about. You can’t fool us!” Fellow host Sunny Hostin said that Tuberville has other things his office should be concentrating on, referencing a statistic saying that in 2021, about 60% of Alabama’s population lived below the poverty line. Hostin went on to say that Tuberville’s words make him nothing more than “an example” of his state’s “very, very low education rate.”

By Gabriella Ferrigine

Gabriella Ferrigine is a former staff writer at Salon. Originally from the Jersey Shore, she moved to New York City in 2016 to attend Columbia University, where she received her B.A. in English and M.A. in American Studies. Formerly a staff writer at NowThis News, she has an M.A. in Magazine Journalism from NYU and was previously a news fellow at Salon.


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