In terms of Trump himself, Farah Griffin maintains that she “didn’t have any illusions about who the president was.” In a glowing May Vanity Fair profile, replete with glamorous photos of Farah sipping cocktails and posing in limos, she argued: “I’m not somebody who drank the Kool-Aid for five years and then magically found Jesus on January 6.” But that, too, is at odds with her public statements in the White House. In one video taken during her time in the administration, she describes her first time meeting Trump: “I was smiling so wide because I was just excited to see him.” In having “gotten to spend quite a bit of time with him” in following months, she added, “I remember this every day as I walk on the campus — just to stop, say a quick prayer of thank you and gratitude” every day “that I get to serve this particular president.” She went on: “He’s a remarkable man. The more time you spend with him behind closed doors, the more you understand what makes him such a strong leader for our nation.” At the same time, she attacked Miles Taylor — the erstwhile midlevel Trump official who penned the infamous anonymous New York Times op-ed about the “resistance” within the White House — as “confirm[ing] that “Never Trumpers are trying to thwart POTUS.” In January 2021, she told Politico that she didn’t “have respect” for Taylor. A year later, however, she was participating in group phone calls led by Taylor “to discuss efforts to fend off [Trump’s] efforts to, in their view, erode the democratic process,” according to CNN.

Farah Griffin has continued to espouse some conservative positions publicly, including defending the pro-life argument on The View earlier this year. But when the topic turns to anything Trump-related, she is reading from a decidedly different playbook these days. In the administration, for instance, she touted Trump’s “leadership” on Covid, boasting that Trump had “NEVER stopped working to defeat the virus since before it ever even came to American shores,” and arguing that “it’s the Republicans who are serious about getting aid to Americans, not the democrats.” Today, she claims that “Donald Trump politicized the hell out of the virus.” On allegations of extremism, she defended Trump’s “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by” comment in the presidential debates, arguing that “there isn’t anything to clarify”; prior to that, she dismissed a former Department of Homeland Security official’s claims that Trump was “refusing to condemn” right-wing extremism as “a case of this former disgruntled employee being ineffective at their job.” But in a May 2021 MSNBC appearance, she said that “as a brown woman — I’m Lebanese and Syrian — it [was] challenging” to work in the administration, adding that she wanted Trump to “condemn white supremacy — that shouldn’t be hard. Pulling teeth and making it something difficult was just an unnecessary thing.”