The View hosts shared that they will not be attending the upcoming White House Correspondents Dinner, despite the fact that President Trump will be making his first appearance at the annual event for the first time as president.

Alyssa Farah Griffin shared that she believes journalists should still attend the event to benefit the White House Correspondents Association and see journalists like CNN’s Kaitlan Collins be honored. But hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin stated that they refused to attend if Trump will also be in attendance.

Navarro said having President Trump speak at the White House Correspondents Dinner “is like having a cannibal host a vegan event.”

“We get invited every ear and I am glad there are people going because, as Alyssa said, this raises money for worthwhile causes,” Navarro said, before launching into an impassioned rant. “For me, there is no way in hell I would normalize Donald Trump’s presence by showing up. For me, as a Latina immigrant, no community has been as maligned, humiliated, prosecuted and tortured as much as the immigrant community and the Latino community.”

She continued, “And theres just no way I’m going to wear Spanx, high heels, drink cheap wine, eat a bad chicken dinner and smile at the stupid things I know he’s going to say.”

Hostin added that she also won’t “grace him with my presence because I think he’s been attacking the press.” She called him out for arresting her “friend,” former CNN journalist Don Lemon.

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“I don’t care about this president’s attendance at that, I do care about journalists making him appear to be normal,” Hostin said. “He is the most abnormal president we have ever had.”

Sara Haines, on the other hand, had her own hilarious reason for wanting to skip the dinner. She wants to avoid the host, mentalist Oz Pearlman.

Pearlman accurately guessed Haines’ ATM PIN code during his live appearance on The View, sending her into a “nervous breakdown,” according to Joy Behar.

“It’s not Donald Trump that’s keeping me from this dinner, it’s Oz Pearlman,” she joked. “I warn everyone at this dinner, tell him nothing!”

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