‘The View’ dressed kids as criminals Anna Delvey, Donald Trump for Halloween: ‘So creative!’
In the absence of traditional cohost costumes this year, The View still soldiered on with its increasingly hilarious legacy of dressing children in controversial Halloween costumes in celebration of the spooky holiday.
After a round of Hot Topics on Thursday morning, cohosts Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin welcomed the show’s wardrobe supervisor Ashley Alderfer-Kaufman (dressed as Anxiety from Inside Out 2) to the set for another edition of the recurring “Boo Are You Wearing?” segment, which typically involves a parade of children sashaying across the show’s stage in various Halloween costumes inspired by pop culture moments of the year — which, in recent years, has included a child embodying the Will Smith Oscars slap (complete with a red handprint on their face) and another as the Chinese spy balloon.
After introducing kids in comical getups as adorable baby hippo Moo Deng and as Vice President Kamala Harris (clad in a Brat tee while standing next to a coconut tree), the show saved the best for last, as it showcased several youngsters embodying convicted criminals Anna Delvey (who previously criticized The View in a public back-and-forth over the show’s coverage of her) and Donald Trump.
“This next one caused quite a stir when she was cast on this season’s Dancing With the Stars. Controversial contestant Anna Delvey, nicknamed ‘The Fake Heiress,’ is a convicted felon and currently on house arrest. So, what’s a girl to do when forced to wear an ankle monitor? Bedazzle it of course!” Alderfer-Kaufman said of the Delvey costume, which featured a child bending down to interact with a glittery ankle monitor on her left leg. “She was eliminated in the second week and when asked what she took away from the competition, she shocked her partner, Ezra Sosa, and everyone else in the ballroom by answering simply, ‘Nothing.'”
Next, Alderfer-Kaufman spoke as the camera panned upward to show a child wearing a Trump-inspired trench coat and messy wig, before opening up the jacket to show Trump-centric merch lining the interior.
“He never misses an opportunity to make money. This year alone, he’s been hawking everything, from gold sneakers and gold watches to gold coins and gold chocolate bars. Are we detecting a pattern here, yet?” Alderfer-Kaufman continued. “Are Americans buying what he’s selling? We’ll find out on Nov. 5!”
Griffin told her colleague, “We love it, these are so creative,” before bringing out the last costumed kids dressed as childless cat ladies, in reference to Trump’s VP candidate J.D. Vance’s widely maligned, resurfaced quotes from a 2021 interview in which he slammed liberal leaders for not having children.
Both Trump and Delvey are convicted criminals, with Trump receiving a 34-count indictment in May following his hush-money trial, and Delvey — whose life story was adapted for the Netflix series Inventing Anna — was convicted in 2019 after posing as a German heiress to swindle thousands from banks and her associates.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Delvey for comment on The View‘s costume, as the show issued an on-air statement to Delvey in September, after Griffin asserted that Delvey “still owes people money” and, in her estimation, is still a con artist.
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“We recently discussed Anna Delvey, the convicted fraudster, noting she will be on Dancing With the Stars, and questioning the fairness of her being on the show, as it is an opportunity most convicted criminals and immigrants seeking asylum simply do not have,” Griffin said at the time, continuing: “After that discussion, we heard from Ms. Delvey’s lawyer, who strongly objected to our saying that ‘she still owes people money.’ He argued that statement falsely suggests she still owes restitution to her fraud victims, and he provided a document from the Office of Victim Services, that he says proves, ‘all of Ms. Delvey’s restitution has been repaid in full and all the victims have been fully compensated.'”
The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.