The ladies of “The View” wouldn’t allow Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) to paint himself as some sort of right-wing maverick in his new book “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents,” despite almost always siding with President Donald Trump.

Panelist Ana Navarro took Tillis to task during his Monday stop by the show, asking why he repeatedly backed Trump’s cabinet nominees, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, after calling them unqualified, untrustworthy or both.

Tillis said that in Hegseth’s case, he decided to defer to his colleagues on the Senate Armed Services committee and that they “all made a mistake.”

Navarro told Tillis that his flip-flopping kind of breaks her heart.

“I feel you were very inconsistent in this book, because on the one hand, you go through all of the reasons why Hegseth was unqualified,” she said. “You go through all of the reasons why [former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi] Noem was unqualified. You kept calling her like an ‘unqualified dog killer,’ and yet you voted for them.”

“Both are true,” Tillis replied.

"I hope he gets fired." Republican @SenThomTillis, author of 'How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents,' explains why his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was his biggest regret. pic.twitter.com/P9juWYsqQh

Tillis was also asked if Hegseth would get impeached when a new Congress comes to town.

“I don’t know if he’ll be impeached,” Tillis said. “I hope he gets fired.”

Navarro also reminded Tillis that he voted to confirm Attorney General Todd Blanche despite concerns over a “bogus investigation” into one of Trump’s political enemies and his part in Trump’s scuttled $1.8 billion slush fund for victims of government “weaponization.”

“So you know you’re voting for people who are rubber-stamped and unqualified, but you keep doing it, Thom!” she said.

“In politics, you’ve got to play the hand that’s dealt you,” Tillis claimed.

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