&#8220;The View&#8221; hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin claimed on Wednesday that black people in America were worse off than people living under Iran&#8217;s oppressive regime, a claim that was immediately challenged by others at the table.
During a broader conversation about the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, Hostin claimed that Israel&#8217;s strike on Iran had not been legal. Goldberg argued that the legality of Israel&#8217;s actions should be decided by international bodies like the United Nations. But when cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin suggested that they should consider the possibility that Iran was a bad actor, the whole conversation quickly went off the rails.
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Whoopi and Sunny say it&#8217;s worse to be black in America today than to live in Iran today. Whoopi shouts down Alyssa Farah Griffin for noting that Iran kills gay people because America is a terrible country. Alyssa stand up to her in a big way:
Alyssa: Let&#8217;s remember the Iranians… <a href="https://t.co/sxxOK08EPK">pic.twitter.com/sxxOK08EPK</a>
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&#8220;Let’s just remember too, the Iranians literally throw gay people off of buildings, they don’t adhere to basic human rights,” Alyssa Farah Griffin began.
&#8220;Listen, here&#8217;s the thing — let’s not do the — let&#8217;s not do that, because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car,&#8221; Goldberg objected.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, but where the Iranian regime is today is nothing compared to the United States,&#8221; said Griffin.
&#8220;They used to just keep hanging black people!&#8221; Goldberg added.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not even the same,&#8221; Griffin repeated.
&#8220;Oh no! Oh, wait, wait, wait! That&#8217;s not what you mean to say! It is the same,&#8221; Goldberg declared.
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not. The year 2025 in the United States is nothing like if stepped foot were this outfit in Tehran right now,&#8221; Griffin continued. &#8220;I can&#8217;t have my hair showing, I can&#8217;t wear a skirt, I can&#8217;t have my arms out.&#8221;
Everyone began talking at once, and Goldberg eventually broke through. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I am saying that it is the same. Murdering someone for their differences not good whoever does it. It&#8217;s not good. So that&#8217;s why I said you weren&#8217;t saying — what I heard was not what you meant.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran,&#8221; Griffin did not back down.
&#8220;Not if you&#8217;re black,&#8221; Goldberg claimed.
&#8220;Not for everybody,&#8221; Hostin agreed.
&#8220;Not if you&#8217;re black,&#8221; Goldberg said again.
&#8220;Guys, don&#8217;t go to Tehran. No one at this table should go to Tehran,&#8221; Griffin insisted. &#8220;There are places much darker than this country.&#8221;
&#8220;Not everybody feels that way! Not everybody feels that way!&#8221; Goldberg said.

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‘The View’ Goes Sideways When Two Cohosts Claim Black Americans Are Worse Off Than Iranians

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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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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Sunny Hostin claimed during a Monday broadcast that President Donald Trump was &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the U.S. Army National Guard when he deployed troops to quell the violent protests in Los Angeles, arguing that by doing so, he would ultimately set the stage for a &#8220;civil war.&#8221;
Hostin discussed the ongoing protests in Los Angeles — as well as the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to protect federal agents as the protests got more and more violent — with her fellow cohosts on the ABC midday talk show, and they complained that Trump&#8217;s plan to deport criminal illegal aliens was the real problem.
&#8220;The Defense Department has the U.S. Marines on high alert right now,&#8221; cohost Whoopi Goldberg began in mocking tones. &#8220;Now, you know, is it warranted or does this sort of escalate the situation? I mean, whatever happened to state&#8217;s rights?&#8221;
&#8220;I thought that what&#8217;s you do, &#8217;cause you tell the state that this is what you&#8217;re thinking, you know, you don&#8217;t just send people in, you don&#8217;t just send troops in,&#8221; Goldberg claimed. &#8220;But what do I know, I&#8217;ve never run a state? But I don&#8217;t really — when you come in and everyone is — when you go into the doughnut shop to look for people and you&#8217;re dressed in tactical gear, you&#8217;re creating an issue. You&#8217;re creating a problem.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin decries Trump &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the National Guard and claims he&#8217;s going to have them start a &#8220;Civil War.&#8221; 
Ignoring the riots and violence, she claims the Guard is there &#8220;for the purpose of policing Americans&#8217; protest activity, our freedom of speech, our freedom of… <a href="https://t.co/3vEWwMIKSf">pic.twitter.com/3vEWwMIKSf</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1932104165712339004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin jumped in then, claiming that Trump was &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the National Guard — despite its existence as a state-based military force since 1636 and being attached to the United States Army officially in 1933 — by sending troops to keep the peace after protesters attacked ICE agents and their vehicles.
&#8220;I think what really matters from sort of a long view here is the fact that he is militarizing and deploying the Guard for the purpose of policing Americans&#8217; protest activity, our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly,&#8221; Hostin insisted, suggesting that the National Guard had been brought in to silence the protesters rather than to keep them from damaging more property and hurting people.
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Hostin went on to argue that &#8220;an army turned inside&#8221; to police the citizens within the country would ultimately result in &#8220;chaos and fascism.&#8221;
&#8220;And civil war,&#8221; she agreed as Goldberg prompted her. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s the way we need to look at it because deploying the National Guard is supposed to be a last resort.&#8221;
Hostin then claimed that Trump had promised to deploy the National Guard anywhere in the country that protests occurred. What Trump has actually said, on a number of occasions, was that the federal government would step in and shut down violent riots if and when it became apparent that local authorities — in this case, Mayor Karen Bass (D-LA) and Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) — were either unable or unwilling to do so.

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&#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Sunny Hostin claimed on Wednesday that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk was responsible — through cuts suggested by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project — for the loss of some 300,000 lives, who were &#8220;mostly children.&#8221;
Hostin made the comments during the ABC midday broadcast of &#8220;The View,&#8221; where she argued that even though Musk was stepping away from a more central role within President Donald Trump&#8217;s inner circle, he and his counterparts at DOGE had already done immeasurable damage.
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&#8220;But the damage that he did was just really incredible,&#8221; Hostin said. &#8220;He slashed 250,000 federal employees, more than 8500 contracts, more than 10,000 grants, and his cutbacks on medical research cost the lives of — the foreign aid — cost 300,000 lives, mostly children.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s the damage that Elon Musk did, so I don&#8217;t think anyone should be listening to him about anything,&#8221; she insisted.
The rest of Hostin&#8217;s co-hosts joined the pile-on a bit later, but they also were quick to suggest that Trump might need to watch his step as Musk exits the administration.
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ABC News co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Hostin suggest Musk has the dirt on how Trump stole the 2024 election: 
WHOOPI: Elon knows the 411 on everything. 
HOSTIN: Yeah, he got all that information. 
WHOOPI: He knows how all this went down.BEHAR: So Trump should be afraid… <a href="https://t.co/DZR03MfBHl">pic.twitter.com/DZR03MfBHl</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1930284322272985539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Elon knows the 411 on everything,&#8221; co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed.
Hostin agreed: &#8220;Yeah, he got all that information.&#8221;
&#8220;He knows how all this came down,&#8221; Goldberg said.
&#8220;So Trump should be afraid of him,&#8221; co-host Joy Behar added, and then appeared to make an attempt at casting doubt on the legitimacy of Trump&#8217;s victory in the 2024 presidential election. &#8220;He has the receipts on the election, too.&#8221;

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‘The View’ Host Claims Elon Musk Caused 300,000 Deaths Due To DOGE Cuts: ‘Mostly Children’

'The View' Host Claims Elon Musk Caused 300,000 Deaths Due To DOGE Cuts: 'Mostly Children'

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; complained during Monday&#8217;s broadcast about former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis and people who might bring politics into it — immediately after which they injected their own politics by trying to make it about President Donald Trump.
Whoopi Goldberg started the ball rolling, reacting on the show to the news that Biden — who had just appeared on the show a little over a week earlier — had been diagnosed with an advanced and &#8220;aggressive form&#8221; of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.
Goldberg laughed off claims that there was any cover-up regarding Biden&#8217;s health or cognitive fitness, and then used a clip from his recent appearance — where former First Lady Jill Biden had been forced to step in and help him answer a question — as proof that he was fine.
She then complained that the new revelation regarding his cancer diagnosis would only &#8220;add fuel to the fire&#8221; for those who already believed that the Bidens had not been telling the truth about his condition. Her assessment was that it was time for everyone to simply &#8220;put politics aside.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin makes Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis about Trump: 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics. But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research&#8230;cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think… <a href="https://t.co/EfcosBBvBN">pic.twitter.com/EfcosBBvBN</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924508534714061167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin started off in agreement with Goldberg, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics.&#8221;
She then immediately pivoted to make it political — and use it to attack President Donald Trump — adding, &#8220;But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research &#8230; cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think that&#8217;s so despicable and so disdainful.&#8221;
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin brought the topic back around to Biden, saying that there was a way to have the conversation without making it solely about the politics, arguing that the latter would not be &#8220;helpful to anyone.&#8221;
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Goldberg claims &#8220;there&#8217;s no way&#8221; Biden had cancer during his presidency and hid it from the voters: 
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was… <a href="https://t.co/S0Egee6YbR">pic.twitter.com/S0Egee6YbR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924512513980354828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg jumped back in to insist it was impossible for Biden to have had cancer while he was president because he would not have been able to hide the treatments from the public.
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was carrying around or that he was hiding,&#8221; she said.

‘The View’ Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

'The View' Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden's Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

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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>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1923052595846774839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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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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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Sunny Hostin, who criticized the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV on Friday because his views on marriage and the LGBTQ+ community aligned with the Catholic Church&#8217;s traditional teachings, appeared to reverse course after learning that he had black heritage.
Hostin, who has often touted her own &#8220;devout&#8221; Catholic faith in spite of her support for abortion and other social issues not embraced by the Church, said it was a &#8220;chef&#8217;s kiss&#8221; moment when she&#8217;d learned that Pope Leo XIV — formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago — had &#8220;Haitian and black roots.&#8221;
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After denouncing him last week, The View&#8217;s race baiter, Sunny Hostin does a 180-flip-flop on Pope Leo once she found out of his black ancestry: 
&#8220;As it turns out, our new American pope has Haitian and black roots! So, we actually have a black pope! &#8230; It&#8217;s a chef&#8217;s kiss for me… <a href="https://t.co/EYzfI7jbYR">pic.twitter.com/EYzfI7jbYR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1921981640072364101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There&#8217;s one other thing that&#8217;s also very interesting to me because President Trump, as you remember, called Haiti a certain type of country,&#8221; Hostin began, recalling Trump&#8217;s assertions that Haiti was a &#8220;s***hole country.&#8221;
&#8220;As it turns out, our new American pope has Haitian and black roots! So, we actually have a black pope! Apparently — it&#8217;s like a chef&#8217;s kiss for me — so apparently both of his maternal grandparents are described as black, Haitian, or mulatto in several census documents. And on their marriage license, his birth — the grandfather&#8217;s birthplace is Haiti, listed as Haiti, her birthplace is listed as born in New Orleans. They were identified as people of color, but in 1920 when they migrated to Chicago, the census reflected their race as white.&#8221;
&#8220;So I&#8217;m loving everything about this new pope,&#8221; cohost Ana Navarro interjected.
&#8220;So, I’m loving it. I’m really enjoying it,&#8221; Hostin agreed. &#8220;And it’s good to have a black pope!&#8221;
Just three days earlier, during Friday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, Hostin raised her concerns about Pope Leo XIV — primarily citing his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-hosts-of-the-view-were-hoping-for-a-new-pope-who-was-less-catholic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previous statements</a> about the LGBTQ+ community.
&#8220;I’m a little concerned about this choice for the LGBTQ+ community. In 2012, he gave an address to bishops, and he lamented ‘the popular culture fostered and sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel.’ And that’s a quote,” she complained. “And then he cited the homosexual lifestyle and alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.&#8221;

Flip-Flop: ‘The View’ Host Approves Of New Pope After Learning He Has Black Ancestry

Flip-Flop: 'The View' Host Approves Of New Pope After Learning He Has Black Ancestry

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Sunny Hostin claimed on Thursday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s comments on his Truth Social platform amounted to &#8220;insider trading&#8221; and were specifically coded to give a heads up to his billionaire friends.
Hostin argued that because Trump had recommended &#8220;buying&#8221; when the stock market dropped — amid turmoil over his &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs — he had been signaling to billionaires that they should buy with the expectation that the market would shoot up again when he put them on hold.
&#8220;I gotta tell you, I think what&#8217;s fascinating to me is that the corruption is just completely out in the open at this point,&#8221; Hostin claimed. &#8220;You know, because these kinds of actions where Trump tweeted out before this li&#8217;l pause, he said, &#8216;This is a great time to buy.&#8217; And that&#8217;s really a whistle to those billionaires or people that have money that can buy low and then the stock market prices go up, that&#8217;s generally called insider trading and that would ordinarily trigger an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.&#8221;
&#8220;We know now that that&#8217;s not probably going to happen because all of these government agencies have been, you know, destroyed and dismantled,&#8221; Hostin continued. &#8220;But someone with knowledge of an economic policy change that would cause the markets to shoot back up right before posting about how great a time it is to buy right before the policy change happened would certainly be guilty of insider trading in my view.&#8221;
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Ana Navarro disagrees that it was strategic insider trading only because, &quot; if they&#39;re saying that this was all strategic then he is a sadist because what kind of government leader puts his people through this kind of distress and sadness and anxiety for a week just for giggles.&#39;… <a href="https://t.co/9cDFtgBLfV">pic.twitter.com/9cDFtgBLfV</a>
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Co-host Ana Navarro pushed back slightly, saying, &#8220;If they&#8217;re saying that this was all strategic, then he is a sadist because what kind of government leader puts his people through this kind of distress and sadness and anxiety for a week just for — you know, just for giggles. His supporters always say that he plays fourth-dimensional chess, I think he should be in a padded room.&#8221;

‘The View’ Host Claims Trump’s Truth Social Posts Are Coded ‘Insider Trading’ Tips

'The View' Host Claims Trump's Truth Social Posts Are Coded 'Insider Trading' Tips

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ABC News host Sunny Hostin tripped over several of former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin&#8217;s glaring shortcomings and strategic blunders in her efforts to trash current Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over a Signal chat group that accidentally included Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
Hostin declared on Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; that nothing akin to the Signal chat mishap had happened while Austin was leading the Pentagon, and argued that was just proof that she had been right when she claimed Hegseth was &#8220;unqualified&#8221; to lead America&#8217;s military.
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Sunny Hostin claims nothing like this happened under former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin&#39;s watch. She ignored how his incompetence led to 13 service members killed at Abbey Gate. She also boasted about disgraced former Secret Service boss Kimberly Cheatle resigning after the… <a href="https://t.co/ej5bzE4ZJG">pic.twitter.com/ej5bzE4ZJG</a>
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&#8220;You know, the thing is we all knew that Hegseth was unqualified for this job and he replaced a four-star general with over 40 years of experience, Lloyd Austin,&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;And this would not have happened and did not happen on Lloyd Austin&#8217;s watch.&#8221;
&#8220;But what I will say is, to your question initially, Whoopi, these people need to be fired,&#8221; Hostin added. &#8220;They need to be held accountable. I remember when, following the July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when there was an assassination attempt on the president&#8217;s life, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said, &#8216;The buck stops with me,&#8217; and she resigned. She resigned. She didn&#8217;t put it on anyone else.&#8221;
&#8220;Pete Hegseth is the person that is responsible — yeah — he&#8217;s the person, as the Secretary of Defense, he is responsible for everything,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It was his decision to use that group chat to type out this highly sensitive information.&#8221;
Hostin failed to mention the fact that Austin was the one in charge when American troops were ordered to abandon Bagram Air Base — which could have been more easily defended — and funnel all military and civilian evacuations through the congested streets of Kabul and Hamid Karzai International Airport. That decision left Americans and Afghans alike vulnerable when a suicide bomber attacked near Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021, killing 13 U.S. service members and some 160 civilians — and wounding hundreds more. Not one person in the Biden administration has been held responsible for that — but Hegseth and his team have promised that &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accountability-will-be-coming-secdef-promises-to-investigate-bidens-afghanistan-boondoggle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accountability will be coming</a>.&#8221;
Hostin also left out the fact that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-inspector-general-announces-review-of-austin-going-mia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Austin effectively went AWOL</a> (Absent WithOut Leave) for days, leaving a subordinate in charge while he was hospitalized, but failing to apprise the chain of command — namely the White House — of his situation.

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ABC News host Sunny Hostin argued on &#8220;The View&#8221; that anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil should have the same rights and protections as an American citizen, referring to him as a &#8220;political prisoner&#8221; and suggesting that President Donald Trump was trying to have him &#8220;disappeared.&#8221;
Hostin addressed the issue during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show, where she claimed that Khalil&#8217;s status as a Green Card-holder afforded him the same rights any citizen would have and complained that the Trump administration — and the U.S. State Department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio — was overstepping in efforts to strip him of his immigration status and deport him.
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The View&#39;s Sunny Hostin defends Hamas sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil, calls him a &quot;political prisoner.&quot; 
REMINDER: Khalil is behind the violent Columbia University Apartheid Divest riots in New York City. <a href="https://t.co/qCJzdO3V6Z">pic.twitter.com/qCJzdO3V6Z</a>
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&#8220;I love how you started this, Whoopi [Goldberg], because you started it with the law, with Tom Homan saying Americans, once you are here, especially if you have a Green Card, you are a permanent legal resident of the United States,&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;Which means that you have the constitutional protections that every American citizen has — and that includes free speech, and it certainly includes due process from being disappeared.&#8221;
&#8220;And so I want to point out that on March 8th, a legal permanent resident who has a Green Card, his name&#8217;s Mahmoud Khalil, was taken from Columbia University housing,&#8221; Hostin continued. &#8220;His pregnant wife is due next month. Plain-clothed men in New York grabbed him into an unmarked car, then moved him to Jersey, which is something that is done in authoritarian governments, and moved him to Louisiana, which is one of the worst detention centers that we know of in this country.&#8221;
&#8220;He has said — there&#8217;s a letter that everyone I hope reads — calls himself a political prisoner. I believe that he is,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He wrote on March 18th, 2025, and what is so shocking to me is that this could happen to someone who is a permanent legal resident with a Green Card, with an American wife about to have an American child being disappeared because of — because he spoke out. Because he has his freedom of speech and because he basically spoke out and gave an opinion that now the State Department is saying is against our foreign policy.&#8221;
Hostin left out the reason Secretary Rubio had determined Khalil&#8217;s &#8220;opinion&#8221; ran counter to U.S. foreign policy — the fact that Khalil was affiliated with a group that rallied behind the mission of dismantling the whole of western civilization and had actively fomented anti-Israel protests that resulted in vandalism, violence, and threats against Jewish students and professors.
The ABC personality also left out the most <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/24/us-news/mahmoud-khalil-hid-ties-to-unrwa-on-green-card-application-feds-say-as-they-hit-anti-israel-agitator-with-new-accusations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent updates</a> on Khalil — specifically, the fact that when Khalil applied to change his immigration status and obtain his Green Card, he allegedly left out relevant information regarding his affiliation with several groups that would most likely have raised red flags.
Among those groups was the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, known as UNRWA, which had members who participated alongside Hamas terrorists in the atrocities that took place on October 7, 2023. According to the New York Post, Khalil worked with UNRWA as a political affairs officer as recently as 2023. Khalil was also reportedly working for the Syria Office in the British Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon — another association allegedly left off his application — at the time he applied to change his immigration status. Additionally, the State Department has alleged Khalil never revealed ties to the anti-Israel group that disrupted things at Columbia University over the last year: Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
Rubio laid out the State Department&#8217;s case shortly after Khalil was taken into custody, saying that if Khalil had revealed his plans to engage in such activities on his visa application, it would have been denied — and by that logic, Rubio declared that it could be revoked for the same reason.

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Sunny Hostin complained on Wednesday that Democrats had failed to stand with Rep. Al Green (D-TX) and march out with him when he was ejected from President Donald Trump&#8217;s address to the joint session of Congress.
Hostin made the point during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; on ABC shortly after boasting that she hadn&#8217;t even watched the president&#8217;s remarks in an effort to deny him the ratings.
&#8220;While I didn&#8217;t watch it, I was looking for signs of an opposition party, which is what the Democratic Party must be at this point,&#8221; Hostin declared. &#8220;Not a resistance, because resistance is passive. Opposition is active, and I think that we — what I saw when Representative <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deported-dem-rep-al-green-booted-from-trump-address-to-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Green</a> stood up and said, &#8216;You don&#8217;t have a mandate to take away Medicaid,&#8217; and he was tossed out, I expected the rest of his Democratic caucus, the rest of his colleagues, to walk out with him! Because alone you can survive but together you thrive.&#8221;
&#8220;That is the energy that we need, they should have stood with him in solidarity,&#8221; Hostin complained. &#8220;What I want to say to the Democrats is you can&#8217;t play by the rules with a party that has thrown away the rulebook! You cannot do it!&#8221;
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Whoopi shouts over Alyssa Farah Griffin and shuts down all criticism of the Democrats. &quot;See, all of this snowflake behavior of the Republicans, you know, you can&#39;t take it. You can dish it out but you can&#39;t take it,&quot; she sneers. <a href="https://t.co/kLQbMIYAEd">pic.twitter.com/kLQbMIYAEd</a>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin commented next, arguing that while the rebuttal delivered by Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) was &#8220;masterful,&#8221; the Democrats&#8217; &#8220;antics on the floor were not helpful.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that waving a cane is the optics that the Democrats want in this moment,&#8221; Griffin continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think holding up signs that are now just being mocked on the internet — who was advising these people?&#8221;
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg interrupted then to shut down any criticism of the Democrats.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s what didn&#8217;t happen: the last time someone did that, she was engaged by the president,&#8221; Goldberg said, referencing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her call for then-President Joe Biden to say aloud the name of murdered Georgia college student Laken Riley.
&#8220;See, all of this snowflake behavior of the Republicans, you know, you can&#8217;t take it. You can dish it out but you can&#8217;t take it,&#8221; Goldberg continued, talking over Griffin&#8217;s every effort to continue with her point.

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Sunny Hostin Blows Up Over Democrats Who Didn’t March Out With Rep. Green

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Sunny Hostin claimed on Monday that it was &#8220;un-Godly&#8221; and &#8220;not Christian&#8221; to oppose woke culture, arguing that people who did so only proved that they did not care about their neighbors.
Hostin and &#8220;The View&#8221; cohost Whoopi Goldberg discussed their own personal histories, saying that because they had always been around people who were fighting for things like Civil Rights and other issues, they had &#8220;never been asleep.&#8221;
&#8220;I thought about the conversations that you and I have had, Whoopi, so many times about the co-opting of the word &#8216;woke,'&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;And the fact that the right somehow has made it a dirty word.&#8221;
&#8220;To be woke is a word that came out of the African American community and it was about being — acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging people&#8217;s suffering,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it.&#8221;
&#8220;And so Whoopi will often tell me, &#8216;I&#8217;ve never been asleep,'&#8221; she added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s how I feel &#8230; so it angers me when people are like, &#8216;This woke stuff gotta go.&#8217; That&#8217;s telling me that you don&#8217;t care about my lived experience, you don&#8217;t care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community, you don&#8217;t care about the oppression of the disabled, you don&#8217;t care about the oppression of immigrants, you don&#8217;t care about your fellow neighbors — and that is un-Godly, that is not Christian.&#8221;
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Fake Republican suggests Christians are hypocrites for not being &quot;woke.&quot; &quot;They don&#39;t care about it while wearing big, fat crosses around their necks,&quot; she chides. Whoopi claims Being woke &quot;will make you a better person.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3QCbEzPxMY">pic.twitter.com/3QCbEzPxMY</a>
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&#8220;You know what the most ironic thing is?&#8221; Ana Navarro asked. &#8220;They don&#8217;t care about it, and they don&#8217;t care about it while wearing big, fat crosses around their necks.&#8221;
Goldberg weighed in as well, saying that being exposed to &#8220;woke&#8221; was what actually made people better and arguing that positive change could really only be made by making people uncomfortable.

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Sunny Hostin: It's 'Un-Godly, Not Christian' To Criticize 'Woke' Culture

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