Ana Navarro Mocks Ron DeSantis On ‘The View’ Over Rumor That He Wears Cowboy Boot Lifts: “He Has Barbie Feet”

On today’s episode of The View, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis‘ height was a Hot Topic thanks to a recent interview he gave addressing rumors that he wears lifts in his boots to appear taller. After DeSantis started sporting cowboy boots on the campaign trail earlier this year, political rivals and media outlets began to accuse him of wearing lifts inside them to appear taller.

View host Whoopi Goldberg presented a clip of DeSantis appearing on the PBD Podcast, where he was asked point blank if he wore lifts, an accusation he denied. “

Those are just standard, off-the-rack Lucchese boots,” DeSantis told podcast host Patrick Bet-David. After the clip played, Goldberg referred to DeSantis as “Yosemite DeSantis” and showed a Photoshopped image of DeSantis’s upper body tacked on to infamously short cartoon character Yosemite Sam’s little legs, and then asked her co-hosts,”Is his height going to be his political liability?”

In response, most of the panelists also criticized DeSantis or outright mocked him for the rumor about his shoes.

“There’s no foot in that boot! He has Barbie feet!” Ana Navarro replied to Goldberg, adding, “Call me petty, and I know you will… I am relishing and enjoying this story so much because honestly, he has been terrorizing my drag queen friends in Florida well over a year because he has said men in heels are a threat to society. It’s too bad he has no drag queen friends because they would have taught him how to walk in heels.”

Alyssa Farah Griffin added that she doesn’t think it’s DeSantis’s height that will be his political downfall, but his lack of charm and charisma: “The reason he’s never gonna be President is not the fact that he’s likely wearing high heels, it’s his answer to that clip… the lack of charisma is astounding.”

Sara Haines dissented from the rest of the panel and pointed out that it felt like bullying to laugh at someone’s physical appearance. “There is plenty to pick apart about Ron DeSantis that I don’t think it’s the right tone to pick on his height,” she said.

Navarro responded, justifying her jokes at his expense, “It was a complete self-own by Ron DeSantis. Donald Trump’s words got into his head that he’s got a Napoleonic complex!”

Haines continued to plead her case that short men are often perceived as less competent, though her words seemed to fall on deaf ears. Finally, Griffin got in one of the last words in the argument, stating, “Donald Trump is very tall and he was incredibly incompetent.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.