Joy Behar said on Thursday that she had a mind to just stop paying federal income taxes altogether if President Donald Trump and his administration continue to make cuts with regard to what those taxes will ultimately fund.
Behar joined her cohosts on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; for a discussion about the recently passed &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; — and the cuts that came with it — and argued that she should only have to continue paying state taxes &#8220;if they want the states to take care of everything.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;d like to know, why am I paying federal taxes if they&#8217;re not going to do anything, by the way? Is there anybody that can tell me that?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;If they want the states to take care of everything, I&#8217;ll pay state taxes, and not federal taxes. Watch the IRS come after me now.&#8221;
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Whoopi Goldberg seems to suggest that Secretary Marco Rubio has been replaced by someone else, a &#8220;new Marco&#8221;: 
&#8220;People are imitating. You don&#8217;t know who Marco is anymore. You don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s Marco you talking to or, you know, some kind of new Marco.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/6axwN1N29A">pic.twitter.com/6axwN1N29A</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1943328869571842543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin jumped in to talk about the role played by the National Security Council — and its acting head, Secretary of State Marco Rubio — when it came to parceling out aid, and cohost Whoopi Goldberg immediately made reference to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marco-rubio-impostor-uses-ai-to-deceive-high-ranking-officials">recent story</a> about an individual using AI to impersonate Rubio to contact various foreign and domestic officials.
&#8220;People are imitating Marco,&#8221; she pointed out. &#8220;You don&#8217;t know who Marco is anymore. You don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s Marco you&#8217;re talking to or, you know, some kind of new Marco.&#8221;
Goldberg recently raised eyebrows when both she and cohost Sunny Hostin claimed that black Americans in 2025 were facing more discrimination and worse circumstances than people living under the thumb of Iran&#8217;s Islamist regime.

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‘Watch The IRS Come After Me’: Joy Behar Says She’ll Skip Federal Taxes If Trump Keeps Making Cuts

'Watch The IRS Come After Me': Joy Behar Says She'll Skip Federal Taxes If Trump Keeps Making Cuts

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Joy Behar complained about President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to strike Iranian nuclear sites, first objecting to the fact that he did not exhaust the two week window he&#8217;d set for such an attack, and then to the fact that he had not warned Iran ahead of time that he planned to carry out the attacks.
Behar addressed the topic on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show, along with her regular cohosts — and ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl pushed back when she suggested that the Trump administration had been out of line in attacking the Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities.
&#8220;So on Thursday, the White House said that Trump was going to make a decision on Iran in the next two weeks, that&#8217;s what he said, remember that?&#8221; Behar began. &#8220;Okay, he was going to give diplomatic negotiations more time to play out. And then less than 48 hours later, this attack was underway. So what changed and what was he actually trying to accomplish here?&#8221;
&#8220;Look, the two weeks measure was clearly a little bit of a head fake,&#8221; Karl replied. &#8220;I mean, not entirely. I wouldn&#8217;t say the decision was finally made. All indications are he didn&#8217;t actually make the decision to so-called pull the trigger until Saturday &#8230; and then the attack commenced.&#8221;
Karl went on to say that he really believed Trump wanted &#8220;a Kim Jong Un moment&#8221; where Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader came to the table and made an eleventh-hour deal, but that he made the decision to move forward with an attack when it was clear that would not happen.
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Behar: So, why did he keep it a secret for the surprise version? <a href="https://t.co/RcCwemhuc6">pic.twitter.com/RcCwemhuc6</a>
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&#8220;So, why did he keep it a secret — a surprise version?&#8221; Behar asked, apparently questioning why Trump did not broadcast his plans to attack prior to execution.
Karl said it was &#8220;absolutely a diversion,&#8221; adding, &#8220;all indications were that the B-2s were flying towards Guam, everybody thought, okay, we&#8217;re getting in position to be ready. They wanted to have some element of surprise.&#8221;

Joy Behar Can’t Figure Out Why Trump Didn’t Tell Iran He Was Going To Bomb Their Nuclear Sites

Joy Behar Can't Figure Out Why Trump Didn't Tell Iran He Was Going To Bomb Their Nuclear Sites

Iran

Actor and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger slammed the violent mobs rioting across the U.S. during his Thursday appearance on “The View,” criticizing illegal aliens for not acting as “guests.”
Joy Behar, one of the hosts of “The View,” attempted to bait the “Terminator” star by asking him if he had a “visceral reaction” to the ICE raids happening throughout the country, as he is an immigrant himself.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn&#8217;t take the bait when The View&#8217;s Joy Behar asks him about the ICE raids in California:
&#8220;I&#8217;m so, so happy to see first-hand that this IS the greatest country in the world and it IS the land of opportunity&#8230;
&#8230;When you come to America, you&#8217;re a guest.… <a href="https://t.co/4FKa47Q6KM">pic.twitter.com/4FKa47Q6KM</a>
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“I am so proud and happy that I was embraced by the American people,” Schwarzenegger replied.
“Every single thing — if it’s my bodybuilding career, if it’s my acting career, becoming governor, the beautiful family that I’ve created — all of this is because of America. And so this is why I’m so, so happy [to] see first hand that this is the greatest country in the world and it is the land of opportunity.”
Schwarzenegger then announced that he will deliver a speech at Mount Vernon to celebrate the 250th birthday of America, where some immigrants will be sworn in as U.S. citizens, and that he is excited to celebrate the benefits of immigration.
“The key thing also is, at the same time, that you’ve got to do things [legally],” he clarified. “That is the important thing. Those people that are doing illegal things in America — and they’re the foreigners — they are not smart.”
As he spoke, multiple hosts attempted to interrupt him, with Sunny Hostin even placing her hand on Schwarzenegger’s arm as though she wanted him to stop speaking.
“When you come to America, you’re a guest and you have to behave like a guest,” Schwarzenegger stated. “Like, when I go to someone’s house and I’m a guest, I will do everything I can to keep things clean and to make my bed and to do everything that is the right thing to do rather than committing a crime or being abusive or something like that.”
Schwarzenegger has criticized the Trump administration and previously endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential run, remaining one of the few Republicans to oppose Donald Trump. However, his rhetoric on “The View” conflicts with mainstream leftist views on the immigration crisis.
“The important thing is, when you become an immigrant, to think about — okay, I go to America because I want to use America for the great opportunities that America has in education, in jobs, [and in] creating a family. … Then you have to think about — okay, if I get all of those things from America, then I have to give something back. You have a responsibility as an immigrant to give back to America and to pay back America and to go and do something for your community for no money whatsoever. … Make this country a better place.” 
The hosts attempted to interrupt, but could not be heard after the audience erupted into applause.

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Joy Behar predicted on Tuesday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles was likely to result another tragedy like the one that played out at Ohio&#8217;s Kent State University in May of 1970.
Behar made the comments during a regular broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; as she and her cohosts continued to complain about Trump and claim that the violent riots — where federal agents had been targeted and property had been destroyed — were peaceful and &#8220;orderly&#8221; until the National Guard arrived.
Whoopi Goldberg took the lead, claiming that videos of the violence were misleading because some news sources were not showing the peaceful parts of the protests. &#8220;It&#8217;s quite different when you&#8217;re talking to people in L.A.,&#8221; she said, adding that the riots had been &#8220;peaceful for days.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no crisis in Los Angeles that ICE did not cause. That&#8217;s the fact of the matter,&#8221; Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying the protests were &#8220;very, very orderly&#8221; and claiming that if immigration authorities had not showed up to enforce federal immigration law, there would be no problem.
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Using the latest liberal buzzwords meant to stir up fear and hate, Hostin warns that Trump is &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the state of California as a &#8220;test run&#8221; for cracking down on other sanctuary cities. 
&#8220;There is a plan,&#8221; she ominously fearmongers. <a href="https://t.co/ZfrDHw7zMB">pic.twitter.com/ZfrDHw7zMB</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1932456499042795633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin followed that by restating her point from the day before — that Trump was &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the National Guard — and claiming that Trump was moving ahead with cracking down on Los Angeles because he wanted a &#8220;test run&#8221; for going after other &#8220;sanctuary cities.&#8221;
It was then that Behar invoked the memory of <a href="https://www.kent.edu/may-4-historical-accuracy">Kent State</a>, saying that bringing in the National Guard reminded her of the situation that had played out there in 1970 when anti-war (Vietnam) protesters had effectively cornered the National Guard troops who were brought in by then-Governor James Rhodes. Several of the National Guardsmen fired their weapons, killing four and wounding nine. A 1974 criminal trial against eight National Guardsmen was dismissed by District Judge Frank Battisti mid-trial after he said that the prosecution&#8217;s case was so weak that the defense need not present its case at all.
&#8220;You know, and sometimes kids get killed when this happens. In my day, it was Kent State and they killed four kids, American students, and nine were injured very severely in those days, and I think that they&#8217;ve got to be very careful what they&#8217;re doing because that&#8217;s the next thing that will happen,&#8221; Behar said.
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Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin compares the National Guard in L.A. to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. &#8220;I have a major issue with the National Guard going in and now the U.S. Marines&#8230; [its] significantly more U.S. forces than we had in the winddown of Afghanistan.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/KHSoM0MPR0">pic.twitter.com/KHSoM0MPR0</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1932461296139571711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Alyssa Farah Griffin argued that bringing in the National Guard and the Marines — even after federal agents and local law enforcement had been clearly harassed and targeted with projectiles — was excessive because there were more deployed to Los Angeles than during the &#8220;wind-down of Afghanistan.&#8221;

‘Sometimes Kids Get Killed’: Joy Behar Predicts Another Kent State As National Guard Patrols L.A.

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; joined a number of other media personalities in claiming that President Donald Trump was only allowing 59 Afrikaners to claim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spare-me-scott-jennings-scorches-dems-for-sudden-about-face-on-refugees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refugee status</a> because they are white — while also claiming that because the Afrikaners are white, they are not &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221;
Sunny Hostin addressed the issue during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast, complaining that the Trump administration had limited refugee status for Afghans and Haitians, to whom she referred as &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221; Hostin also took a swing at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying she found it to be an &#8220;insult&#8221; that the former South Dakota Governor holds that position.
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Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin denouncing President Trump granting refugee status to 59 white South Africans. She demands the status for Haitians, who are &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221; 
JOY BEHAR: They&#8217;re not white people. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want them here. 
SUNNY HOSTIN: She said it, I… <a href="https://t.co/3iBDrey1VO">pic.twitter.com/3iBDrey1VO</a>
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&#8220;For me, you know, I think one thing — having Kristi Noem be in charge of Homeland Security, in and of itself, is an insult, it&#8217;s just an insult,&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;And I think something that we&#8217;re not talking about — enough about — is what Donald Trump did on Monday: the Trump administration allowed in 59 white South African refugees into this country, claiming that they were fleeing racial discrimination and land appropriation.&#8221;
Hostin went on to claim that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had disputed reports of land appropriation and racially motivated discrimination — despite the fact that Ramaphosa himself signed a bill into law in late January that allows the government to expropriate private property for reasons up to and including &#8220;to promote inclusivity and access to natural resources.&#8221;
The Afrikaners, according to Hostin, did not qualify as refugees. Instead, she referenced refugees from Afghanistan and falsely claimed that the program in place to grant protected status to Afghans &#8220;who helped us&#8221; during the war had been ended. In fact, the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghans-deportation-protections-ending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> Afghan Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program is entirely separate from the more permanent Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program exclusively for Afghans who were allies during the war.
&#8220;And so the fact that Afghan refugees — people who helped us during the Afghanistan war — who helped us and protected our troops, that program has been dismissed. The fact that Haitians that are truly refugees, they have been denied protected status.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re not white people. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want them here,&#8221; cohost Joy Behar suggested.
&#8220;She said it, I didn&#8217;t,&#8221; Hostin agreed.

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‘The View’ Hosts Are Pretty Sure That White South Africans Aren’t ‘Truly Refugees’

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Joy Behar claimed on Thursday that President Donald Trump was the first sitting president in her lifetime to publicly trash his predecessor.
The regular cohost, apparently forgetting the eight years former President Barack Obama spent blaming former President George W. Bush for pretty much everything, made the comments on Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC News midday talk show &#8220;The View.&#8221;
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Joy Behar ridiculously claims that no president before Trump had ever said anything bad about a predecessor before: &quot;I never remember in my lifetime a sitting president trashing a previous president. I&#39;ve never heard that before.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/KDzHOdj4JB">pic.twitter.com/KDzHOdj4JB</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1905282627013075228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Behar began by complaining that people within the Trump administration were publicly highlighting former President Joe Biden&#8217;s failures — as they implemented policy changes to turn things around — and argued that because Biden was no longer in office, they should get over it and stop talking about him.
&#8220;They also have a tendency to place the blame on the Biden administration. It&#8217;s like, move on, that ship has sailed,&#8221; she demanded. &#8220;I never remember in my lifetime a sitting president trashing a previous president. I&#8217;ve never heard that before. You never heard — you know — Ronald Reagan didn&#8217;t do it, their Saint Ronald.&#8221;
&#8220;But it&#8217;s the common enemy, it&#8217;s what drives their base together,&#8221; Sara Haines interjected, apparently suggesting that Republicans were only bonded together by their hatred for the Biden administration.
Behar — and Haines — appear to have forgotten much of what transpired between 2009 and 2016, when Obama repeatedly blamed his predecessor for his own economic woes.
&#8220;We inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression, a banking system on the verge of meltdown. We had lost 4 million jobs by the time I was sworn in and would then lose another 4 million in a few months right after I was sworn in before our economic policies had a chance to take root,&#8221; he complained.
He also claimed it was Bush&#8217;s fault that &#8220;the efforts to apply pressure on Iran were in tatters&#8221; — a problem he purported to solve by giving billions of dollars in cash to the world&#8217;s leading sponsor of global terrorism and allowing them to edge closer and closer to developing their own nuclear weapons.
President Joe Biden, in turn, spent a fair amount of time between 2021 and 2024 blaming Trump for inflation and for the unemployment rate that was largely driven by COVID-era shutdowns implemented at the state and local levels.

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Joy Behar said on Thursday that while she wouldn’t cut all ties with friends if she found out that they had supported or voted for President Donald Trump, she also would not feel inclined to go out of her way to help them in a time of need.
Behar said during Thursday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC News that she would not “give them a kidney” if she learned that a friend who’d supported Trump was in need of one — and then she explained that she’d refuse to do so because the friend had made a poor moral choice.
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Joy Behar claims she&#39;s friends with a Trump supporter but adds she wouldn&#39;t give them a kidney to save their life: &quot;I won&#39;t give them a kidney but I could be friends with them&#8230;the thing about it, it&#39;s not just about politics, it&#39;s about morality, ethics, it&#39;s about cruelty,… <a href="https://t.co/TqMu3wzFXC">pic.twitter.com/TqMu3wzFXC</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1897687492343595295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I won&#8217;t give them a kidney but I could be friends with them,” Behar began. “I mean, the question — the thing about it, it&#8217;s not just about politics, it&#8217;s about morality, ethics, it&#8217;s about cruelty, it&#8217;s about discrimination. It&#8217;s about a lot of things. So, those are personal human values.&#8221;
“We’re not really just talking about fiscal conservative who pays more taxes, we’re talking about you as a human being,” she said. “So it’s hard to be friends with someone who signs on to something like that.”
Sunny Hostin agreed with Behar, saying, “Yeah, I agree with that because I think, you know, we&#8217;re in abnormal times. This is not the Republican Party of yesterday. I think it&#8217;s the Trumplican party in many respects. It&#8217;s so extreme. And if someone is supporting or voting for someone who is hurting members of my family, members of my community, our elderly, our children, gutting our government, firing people; I do have a hard time being friends with that person.”
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Sara Haines recounts growing up in Iowa where &quot;it&#39;s very common to know people that vote differently. I went from Midwest conservative life to super liberal east coast life.&quot; She and Behar blame the support for Trump on where &quot;they&#39;re getting their information from.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/m1mFn0vT6T">pic.twitter.com/m1mFn0vT6T</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1897690020678337001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines reflected on her own life, growing up in the midwest, where she said &#8220;it&#8217;s very common to know people that vote differently. I went from Midwest conservative life to super liberal east coast life.&#8221;
The consensus around the table was that the people who supported Trump must only do so because they get information from the wrong sources.

Joy Behar Says If A Dying Friend Supports Trump, She ‘Won’t Give Them A Kidney’

Joy Behar Says She 'Won't Give Them A Kidney' If A Dying Friend Supported Trump

Joy Behar claimed that President Donald Trump&#8217;s brief handshake with the Supreme Court&#8217;s Chief Justice John Roberts — at his address before a joint session of Congress — amounted to solid evidence that the Court was colluding with Trump.
Cohost Sunny Hostin weighed in ahead of Behar, boasting about the fact that she had not watched Trump&#8217;s remarks at all and touting counter-programming that had garnered some 200,000 viewers to the millions who watched the president.
&#8220;I know how much this present loves his ratings, so I did not turn the TV on. I turned the TV off &#8230; I watched the State of the People Summit which was counter-programming,&#8221; she said.
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Behar has a mental breakdown over Trump shaking Chief Justice John Roberts&#39; hand. She cooks up a crazy conspiracy theory and claims there&#39;s no longer any separation of powers: &quot;And there was a moment there that really stopped my heart and that was when Trump shook hands with the… <a href="https://t.co/vYXlgoMhga">pic.twitter.com/vYXlgoMhga</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1897325657916383500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Behar then jumped in with her assessment of the Democrat rebuttal, delivered by freshman Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) — which she said sounded &#8220;very presidential in many ways, and she wasn&#8217;t being held hostage like the woman last year&#8221; — before pivoting to address her greatest concern about the evening.
&#8220;What I really wanted to talk about was something you just said, that we don&#8217;t have a separation of powers anymore,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;And there was a moment there that really stopped my heart and that was when Trump shook hands with the members of the Supreme Court who were there &#8230; He said to Justice Roberts, &#8216;thank you again, thank you again, won&#8217;t forget it.&#8217; Now, what do you think he was referring to?&#8221;
Behar then speculated that Trump was obviously thanking Roberts for the decision regarding presidential immunity, and her cohosts agreed. Hostin pointed out the Court&#8217;s low approval rating, suggesting the two things were somehow linked.
Behar kept at it, going on to argue that the exchange between Trump and Roberts was clearly evidence that the Supreme Court, like the Republican-led Congress, was &#8220;in the bag&#8221; for President Trump.

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Joy Behar Is Mad Trump Shook Chief Justice Roberts’ Hand, Says Separation Of Powers Is Gone

Joy Behar Is Mad Trump Shook Chief Justice Roberts' Hand, Says Separation Of Powers Is Gone

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The hosts of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; ganged up on guest Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday, pushing back on his claims that President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 election victory amounted to a mandate to govern in the way he had promised on the campaign trail.
The show&#8217;s hosts — including fellow guest and former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — complained that Trump&#8217;s slim margin of victory with regard to the popular vote meant that he did not really have the mandate Smith said he did.
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Karine Jean-Pierre whines about Smith acknowledging Trump&#39;s mandate. &quot;He does not have a mandate.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/rvinvWDYmR">pic.twitter.com/rvinvWDYmR</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1896968435264782407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;He&#8217;s been going around with his cronies touting his so-called landslide and blowout win, but he won the popular vote by 1.5%. One of the smallest ever and he won the general election by less than 50%. So what kind of mandate is this?&#8221; Joy Behar began.
Smith, a sports commentator, pushed back, saying that he believed it was a mandate — and he laid out in detail the reasons he felt that way.
&#8220;It is a mandate and I&#8217;m going to explain why — and I don&#8217;t mind the question, but let me be very clear: I&#8217;m not supporter of Trump, I&#8217;m a supporter of truth,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;And here&#8217;s the facts. The man won every swing state. He increased in terms of his voter turnout in his favor from the standpoint of blacks, Latinos, and young voters. He increased his numbers in that regard from 2020. 89% of the counties shifted to the right! That&#8217;s a mandate!&#8221;
&#8220;We can sit up there and play around all we want to, in 2020 Trump didn&#8217;t win the popular vote,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t win the Electoral College vote. As a matter of fact, the Republicans haven&#8217;t won the popular vote if I remember correctly since 2004 — but they did this year. So 20 years after they last won the popular vote, they won the popular vote, they won the Electoral College vote, the man won every swing state &#8230; I don&#8217;t understand how people can look at that and say there&#8217;s no mandate. There&#8217;s a mandate.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a different definition of a mandate, I guess,&#8221; Behar protested.
Smith kept going though, arguing that the massive shift to the right was a clear directive for the Democratic Party to &#8220;find a new strategy&#8221; going forward.
As Smith left the set, Jean-Pierre was coming in — and she immediately informed him that she disagreed with his assessment.
&#8220;He won with the smallest margin of the popular vote since the 19th century,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said, brushing aside every argument Smith had made to assert that Trump did not, in fact, have any kind of mandate.

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‘The View’ Gangs Up On Stephen A. Smith Over 2024 Election Results

'The View' Gangs Up On Stephen A. Smith Over 2024 Election Results

Karine Jean-Pierre

Stephen A. Smith

Joy Behar trashed billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View,&#8221; claiming that he was a &#8220;foreign agent&#8221; and was &#8220;pro-apartheid&#8221; and asserting that he was effectively running the federal government while President Donald Trump took &#8220;a nap.&#8221;
Behar and her cohosts on the ABC News talk show have been critical of both Trump and Musk since before the inauguration — often suggesting that the latter is actually the one in charge and directing things from the sidelines — but on Thursday&#8217;s show, Behar took things a step further.
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Hateful, <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyVBehar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoyVBehar</a> flaunts anti-immigrant bigotry against <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElonMusk</a>. She decries him because &quot;the guy was not born in this country.&quot; She falsely claims that, as a child, Musk was &quot;pro-apartheid.&quot; She calls him a &quot;this foreigner, foreign agent,&quot; and &quot;enemy of the United States.… <a href="https://t.co/fd83ZY5u6p">pic.twitter.com/fd83ZY5u6p</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1895148154829369801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Elon Musk kisses [Trump&#8217;s] butt and strokes his tiny ego, or big ego, whatever it is,&#8221; Behar began, prompting a smattering of laughter from the audience. &#8220;And he doesn&#8217;t get to do — he can take a nap while the guy, who was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa, so has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it —&#8221;
&#8220;He is a naturalized citizen,&#8221; cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out.
&#8220;He&#8217;s a naturalized citizen,&#8221; Behar repeated. &#8220;Oh, how did he do that? Did he come over the border legally?&#8221;
Griffin said she believed he&#8217;d come to the United States on an H1B Visa, and cohost Sunny Hostin jumped in then to claim that he&#8217;d overstayed that visa, suggesting that made him an illegal immigrant.
&#8220;This is just perfectly wonderful for Trump,&#8221; Behar pivoted back to her original point. &#8220;He can take a nap and let this foreigner, foreign agent, you know, an enemy of the United States, do his job.&#8221;
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg asked whether anyone else wanted to address the topic, and there was a brief pause before Griffin suggested that maybe they should &#8220;give him a little bit of time&#8221; before labeling Musk &#8220;an enemy of the United States.&#8221;
Fox News commentator Guy Benson pushed back on Behar&#8217;s comments, saying, &#8220;When it’s illegal immigrants, they chant that we are a nation of immigrants. When it’s a naturalized citizen they don’t like, this ugly nativism rears its head.&#8221;
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When it’s illegal immigrants, they chant that we are a nation of immigrants. When it’s a naturalized citizen they don’t like, this ugly nativism rears its head. <a href="https://t.co/EguyN7B2jG">https://t.co/EguyN7B2jG</a>
&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1895193546929643781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;At some point, @ABC is going to get sued for something these morons say. This may be it,&#8221; Pradheep Shanker added.
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At some point, <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC</a> is going to get sued for something these morons say. 
This may be it. <a href="https://t.co/UJrWLlizR7">https://t.co/UJrWLlizR7</a>
&mdash; Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) <a href="https://twitter.com/neoavatara/status/1895159635633492137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Perhaps with an eye toward just such a lawsuit, Behar scrambled to water down her claims when the show returned from a commercial break.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t really know for sure if he was [pro-apartheid]. He grew up in that time when [it] was in full blown &#8230; He was around at that time. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn&#8217;t &#8230; don&#8217;t be suing me, okay, Elon?&#8221; Behar <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1895150442725679361" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

Joy Behar Trashes ‘Foreign Agent’ Elon Musk, Claims He’s ‘Pro-Apartheid’

Joy Behar Trashes 'Foreign Agent' Elon Musk, Claims He's 'Pro-Apartheid'

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Joy Behar claimed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was only calling for the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies because he was &#8220;jealous&#8221; of America&#8217;s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, whose face appears on the coins.
Behar and her cohosts on the ABC midday talk show were responding to Trump&#8217;s plan to stop minting pennies — which he explained when he made the announcement — and they determined that the only explanation that made any sense was that he did it to soothe his own ego.
&#8220;I mean it&#8217;s really — and he&#8217;s jealous of everybody. Now he&#8217;s getting rid of the penny, he&#8217;s even jealous of Lincoln,&#8221; Behar exclaimed. &#8220;He&#8217;s so small, so petty.&#8221;
&#8220;Small and petty, absolutely,&#8221; cohost Sunny Hostin agreed.
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Flaunting her profound ignorance of how even Obama floated the idea, ABC News&#39;s Joy Behar claims Trump wants to ax the penny because he&#39;s &quot;jealous of Lincoln&quot; and &quot;small and petty.&quot; &quot;Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,&quot; agrees former fed prosecutor Sunny Hostin. In reality, the stated… <a href="https://t.co/5lTHitXOle">pic.twitter.com/5lTHitXOle</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1889347834475934062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/so-wasteful-trump-tells-treasury-department-to-stop-producing-new-pennies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Sunday that the Treasury Department would stop making pennies because the cost of minting them exceeded the face value of the coins.
&#8220;For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations (sic) budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,&#8221; the president posted to his Truth Social platform.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/business/costs-of-pennies-and-nickels/index.html#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20latest%20annual,it%20did%2020%20years%20ago." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nickels</a> may soon find themselves on the chopping block if Trump continues down that same path, as the cost to mint them also exceeds their face value of five cents. This could become an issue if having fewer pennies in circulation ultimately drives up the demand for nickels.

Joy Behar: Trump Wants To Stop Producing Pennies Because He’s ‘Jealous Of Lincoln’

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Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar, cohosts of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View,&#8221; opened Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show by defending former President Joe Biden&#8217;s 11th-hour pardons for several of his family members.
Hostin and Behar, both of whom have repeatedly accused President Donald Trump of weaponizing the Justice Department, made excuse after excuse for the blanket pardons Biden issued just moments prior to leaving the White House for the final time.
Hostin began the conversation by complaining about Trump&#8217;s decision to pardon nearly all of those who&#8217;d been charged in relation to January 6, claiming that it was out of bounds for him to pardon people who were guilty of &#8220;violence toward law enforcement.&#8221;
As Newsbusters&#8217; Nick Fondacaro noted, Hostin defended Black Lives Matter protesters despite the damage they did and lobbied hard for Vice President Kamala Harris even though she&#8217;d supported a progressive non-profit that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-kamala-harris-backed-minneapolis-freedom-fund-bailed-out-dangerous-criminals-along-with-protesters">bailed out</a> violent rioters in 2020.
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Joy Behar defends Biden&#39;s corruption and abuse of power in gifting blanket pardons to his family. Her excuse? &quot;Joe Biden lost two other children. He lost two children. So to be in the position and not protect the one child he has.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/l03cZ4WYsa">pic.twitter.com/l03cZ4WYsa</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1882100966855496182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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When cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin raised the specter of Biden&#8217;s pardons, saying that the former president had damaged his own legacy when he chose to issue them, Behar jumped in to do damage control.
&#8220;Joe Biden lost two other children. He lost two children. So to be in the position and not protect the one child that he has &#8230;&#8221; Behar said, clearly referencing the pardon Biden issued to his embattled son Hunter.
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Griffin pushed back, noting that she was referring to the pardons issued on Monday to his siblings and in-laws.
Hostin interrupted, saying that Biden was only responding to extreme circumstances and trying to protect his family from a president &#8220;on a revenge tour.&#8221;
Cohost Sara Haines argued that she could understand where Biden was coming from, even if pardoning his family members might send a message that was not optimal.
&#8220;Whenever I see something like this I try to parse out how would I feel in their shoes &#8230; knowing what Donald Trump is capable of and what he said he would do &#8230; even at the expense of weakening [American institutions] I would say at least protect my family,&#8221; Haines explained.
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The View cast tries to shout down Alyssa Farah Griffin after she notes Trump had refused to give blanket preemptive pardons in his first time. Fake Republican Ana Navarro defends Biden by arguing that he did it &quot;on his last day&quot; in office. <a href="https://t.co/CDchG5w2JY">pic.twitter.com/CDchG5w2JY</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1882103023616303187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Griffin tried once more, arguing that even Trump had backed away from issuing blanket pardons to family members and key allies — despite Democrats and media insisting he was likely to do so — in the final hours of his first term in the White House.
Cohost Ana Navarro complained that the two presidents&#8217; actions were not in any way comparable, saying that Biden was less of a problem because he had waited until the very last day to issue the pardons he&#8217;d repeatedly promised not to issue, while Trump had made good on day one on his campaign promise to issue pardons for most of those charged over the January 6 riot.

Sunny Hostin And Joy Behar Do Rhetorical Gymnastics To Excuse Biden Family Pardons

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