Ana Navarro, a co-host of ABC's "The View," says President Trump is floating the idea of a third term as way to distract from other headlines that are swirling around his administration.
"He is the distractor in chief," Navarro said. "So he doesn’t want us to keep talking about Signalgate, which is a real threat to national security and everyday more details are revealed that show us how incompetent and reckless his national security team is."
Navarro said she has "learned the lesson of taking him seriously," no matter "how hare brained" what the president says is.
The president "doesn’t want us to talk about the way he is tanking the stock market with his imbecilic tariffs," Navarro said.
"What he’s calling Liberation Day should be called Hypertension Day because it’s going to give us all a heart attack," she quipped.
The pundit's comments were first highlighted by Mediaite.
Trump on Sunday said he's "not joking" about the possibility of running for a third term.
“We’re in the high 70s in many polls, in the real polls, and you see that. And, and you know, we’re very popular. And you know, a lot of people would like me to do that,” Trump told NBC's Kristen Welker over the weekend. “But, I mean, I basically tell them, we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”
Navarro accused Trump of playing a game with media headlines and trying to distract from the consequences of his agenda on immigration, health care and the economy.
"He doesn’t want us to be talking about any of those things. And he wants us to be talking about this," she said.
