“The View” co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin blew a gasket on Tuesday’s show, reacting to President Donald Trump reducing the cost of hundreds of prescription drugs for Americans.
Behar and Hostin railed about drugs being added to the federal government’s direct-to-consumer drug site, called TrumpRx, which now boasts more than 600 drugs. The pair claimed that Trump had bad intentions, thereby discounting the achievement.
“First of all, you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas,” Behar said. “Once Trump puts his name on prescriptions, we’re all going to die, okay? He put his name on the Trump Shuttle, the Trump Vodka, Trump University, the Trump Hotel, and my favorite, the casinos that all went bankrupt.”
Hostin said she was in complete agreement with Behar. She called Trump a “failed businessman” and bizarrely excoriated the president for saying he wanted to make Americans “wealthy.” Trump “didn’t say ‘healthy,'” Hostin reasoned.
“This is not a well-intentioned person,” she claimed. “He is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart!”
The peculiar take landed the pair at odds with some of their fellow leftist hosts. Sara Haines, for example, praised the price drop for Americans, even if she dislikes Trump.
“This helps people,” she said. “People who are literally suffering from illness and cannot pay for their medicine.”
In return, Hostin called her “so naive.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin also pushed back on the naysayers. “A medication I had to take for IVF is a tenth of the price on TrumpRx,” she explained.
“Whatever, it’s tacky that his name is on it,” Farah Griffin continued. “The average family, one third of Americans cut back on essential foods and utilities to be able to cover their prescription drug costs.”
“You’re not going to convince me that, just because Trump is involved, we should be like, ‘Screw it, don’t bring down prescription drugs,'” she added.
WATCH:
🔥 MELTDOWN! The View’s Sara Haines FIRES BACK at co-hosts in FIERY shouting match over TrumpRx: “This helps people.. people who are literally suffering from illness and cannot pay for their medicine.”
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