While Disney and ABC were <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/05/22/fcc-chairman-responds-disneys-claim-view-bona-fide-news">duking it out </a>with the Federal Communications Commission over whether or not The View was a “bona fide news” program (HINT: they’re not), they were proving that they certainly were not bona fide historians. From the origins of Memorial Day to claims that President Joe Biden never embarrassingly fell asleep while performing his presidential duties, The View cast was engaging in revisionist history this week.
While attacking Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for his Memorial Day speech at West Point and claiming he was ignorant of military history, co-hosts Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin claimed he was “losing sight of the first Memorial Day.”
According to her, Memorial Day was a holiday celebrated by blacks and women before becoming popularized by whites.
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HAINES: It was celebrated because Union soldiers, black soldiers that were put in mass graves, a lot of the black community came out and said, “We&#8217;re going to honor these soldiers by giving them a proper burial for giving their life to a country that did not treat them as equals.”
HOSTIN: So, Memorial Day was started by black people!
HAINES: By black people, and then a year later, it was women who laid flowers on the graves of these people.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs tells a slightly different story. According to the VA’s <a href="https://www.cem.va.gov/history/Memorial-Day-history.asp">Memorial Day history </a>page, it was a multi-racial affair: “In the waning years of the Civil War (1861–1865) and immediately afterward, communities in the North and South, Black and White, decorated soldiers&#8217; graves with floral honors on springtime ‘decoration days.’”
Even left-wing <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/the-origins-of-memorial-day-and-how-it-has-evolved">PBS doesn’t acknowledge</a> a singular racial origin, noting that “The practice was already widespread. Waterloo, New York, began a formal observance on May 5, 1866, and was later proclaimed to be the holiday&#8217;s birthplace.” PBS does note that blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, held a memorial for Union dead who died in a Confederate prison, but it doesn’t appear to be for only black soldiers.
Later in the week, they tried to do some more revisionist history on a more recent event. Since President Donald Trump’s health was the topic du jour, they toed the liberal media line that Trump was supposedly falling asleep all over the place.
Co-host Joy Behar seemed to scoff at the notion by bitterly asking, “Wait a second. Joe Biden didn&#8217;t fall asleep, did he?”
Well Joy, while meeting with the leaders of African nations in Angola, <a href="https://x.com/jacobkschneider/status/1864403426303529321?s=20">Biden fell asleep</a>. When attending the late President Jimmy Carter’s funeral at the National Cathedral, <a href="https://x.com/jesseyjay94/status/2053911230528499796?s=20">Biden fell asleep</a>. When attending the COP26 summit in Glasgow, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBUgHkbtm9I">Biden fell asleep</a>.
To brag about “what Sleepy Joe got done while he was asleep,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg read from a note card someone gave her and claimed Biden “oversaw an historic economy that produced over 16 million jobs” and “revitalized NATO.”
Obviously, no serious person gives Biden credit for that number, since it was the economy coming back online as COVID lockdowns were being lifted. Even <a href="https://thedispatch.com/article/assessing-claims-about-job-growth-under-joe-biden/">The Dispatch admits </a>that. Meanwhile, the pressure Trump put on NATO in his first term and the war in Ukraine were what spurred the members of the military alliance to invest in rearmament.
ABC News shouldn’t be allowed to rewrite our history like this. Especially the parts we&#8217;ve seen with our own eyes.
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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.

ABC’s “The View” – Season 25

ABC News’ ‘The View’ Shows Off Expertise In Fake History

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Ever since <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/12/19/view-went-all-2025-without-legal-note-they-were-needed">abandoning</a> the use of formal &#8220;legal notes&#8221; last year, The View’s lies have been getting more brazen and more outlandish. Take co-host Sunny Hostin, for example. On Thursday’s episode, she ran up a mighty exorbitant tab with multiple falsehoods when it came to the cost of her beloved Black Lives Matter “uprisings” and the price for eggs.
According to <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2057480303631818897?s=20">Hostin’s revisionist history</a>, not much was damaged by the BLM riots of 2020. “So, I just want to make that part clear. They were very limited destruction of property and violence during&#8230; the Black Lives Matter uprisings,” she scolded critics.
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Sunny Hostin defends the deadly Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. She claims there was only &#8220;very limited destruction of property and violence.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/8TWNsP2DEE">pic.twitter.com/8TWNsP2DEE</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2057480303631818897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2026</a></blockquote>
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In reality, the damage the riots inflicted was extensive. As <a href="https://www.axios.com/2020/09/16/riots-cost-property-damage">Axios reported at the time</a>, the damages cost between $1-2 billion and were the “most expensive in insurance history.” They noted the cost eclipsed the previous record holder, 1992’s Rodney King riots in L.A.
In terms of the ultimate cost, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/06/08/14-days-of-protests-19-dead/?sh=7bad05ac4de4">19 people died</a> during the riots. Many were killed by the rioters or while trying to allegedly commit other crimes.
<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/05/21/sunny-hostin-claims-blm-uprisings-didnt-destroy-much-eggs">Hostin’s girl math </a>also led her to outlandishly assert that the cost for a dozen eggs was “$10.”
“It doesn&#8217;t cost 99 cents to make lunch. It costs like $10 to buy eggs,” she shouted in response to a soundbite of Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary saying young adults needed to bring their lunch to work to save money, instead of always eating out.
According to <a href="https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_3725.pdf">a recent USDA report</a>, the average price of eggs in America was $2.21 per dozen. Additionally, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111">noted</a> the cost of eggs over the last 46 years topped out at $6.23 per dozen in early 2025 and had dropped off sharply since.
The View had something of a BOGO sale on lying about costs this week.
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Sunny Hostin claims &#8220;it costs $10 to buy eggs&#8221; and calls Kevin O&#8217;Leary &#8220;out of touch&#8221; for saying young people just starting out spend too much on stupid stuff. 
She previously has bragged about paying someone to grocery shop for her since COVID. <a href="https://t.co/AmDbfepwbq">pic.twitter.com/AmDbfepwbq</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2057491015297114237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Hostin and co-host Joy Behar <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/05/19/behar-hostin-claim-trumprx-giving-people-tainted-deadly">decried TrumpRX</a> and tried to scare people away from getting low-cost prescriptions via the program.
Behar made it seem as though the program was selling Trump-branded knock-off drugs and suggested they were going to kill everyone: “And I like Mark Cuban. I&#8217;ve always liked him, but this is a mistake, and once Trump puts his name on prescriptions, we&#8217;re all going to die!”
Hostin would later back up Behar’s smear that the drugs were unsafe, asserting, “There could be shortcuts involved.” “Anything he touches is tainted! I don’t trust it!” she shouted.
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ABC News co-host Joy Behar claims &#8220;we&#8217;re all going to die&#8221; because Trump wants to lower drug prices with TrumpRX. She even lashes out at Mark Cuban for getting involved. 
She shouts at her co-hosts who support lowering drug costs. <a href="https://t.co/Wi3SNqU41J">pic.twitter.com/Wi3SNqU41J</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2056771847732031846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Of course, they provided no evidence to support their claims. <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/banking/article/trumprx-expands-discount-drug-offerings-what-consumers-should-know-153118576.html">TrumpRX is a marketplace</a>, and the drugs were from their approved manufacturers.
The View is an ABC News program, by the way.
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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG, SARA HAINES, JOY BEHAR, SUNNY HOSTIN, ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN

Girl Math: Sunny Hostin Lies About the Cost of BLM Damage and Eggs

&#8220;The View&#8221; co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin blew a gasket on Tuesday&#8217;s show, reacting to President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-and-mark-cubans-white-house-moment-takes-unexpected-turn?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+And+Mark+Cuban’s+White+House+Moment+Takes+Unexpected+Turn">reducing the cost</a> of hundreds of prescription drugs for Americans.
Behar and Hostin railed about drugs being added to the federal government&#8217;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.
&#8220;First of all, you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas,&#8221; Behar said. &#8220;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.&#8221;
Hostin said she was in complete agreement with Behar. She called Trump a &#8220;failed businessman&#8221; and bizarrely excoriated the president for saying he wanted to make Americans &#8220;wealthy.&#8221; Trump &#8220;didn&#8217;t say &#8216;healthy,'&#8221; Hostin reasoned.
&#8220;This is not a well-intentioned person,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;He is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart!&#8221;
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,&#8221; she said. &#8220;People who are literally suffering from illness and cannot pay for their medicine.”
In return, Hostin called her &#8220;so naive.&#8221;
Alyssa Farah Griffin also pushed back on the naysayers. &#8220;A medication I had to take for IVF is a tenth of the price on TrumpRx,&#8221; she explained.
&#8220;Whatever, it’s tacky that his name is on it,&#8221; Farah Griffin continued. &#8220;The average family, one third of Americans cut back on essential foods and utilities to be able to cover their prescription drug costs.&#8221;
&#8220;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,'&#8221; she added.
WATCH:
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🔥 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.”
Sunny Hostin seized on how Trump had quipped in footage of the event that he… <a href="https://t.co/RDULflCQkx">pic.twitter.com/RDULflCQkx</a>
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVNewsNow/status/2056820749793673218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2026</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-and-mark-cubans-white-house-moment-takes-unexpected-turn?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+And+Mark+Cuban’s+White+House+Moment+Takes+Unexpected+Turn">Trump And Mark Cuban’s White House Moment Takes Unexpected Turn</a>

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Ladies Of ‘The View’ Absolutely Livid Trump's Dropping Drug Prices

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The hosts of “The View” pushed back on actor Billy Bob Thornton’s argument that celebrities should keep quiet about politics. 
They were reacting to comments Thornton made on the &#8220;Howie Mandel Does Stuff&#8221; podcast last week, where the “Landman” star paraphrased comedian Ricky Gervais and said celebrities should, &#8220;Get your little award and f*** off.&#8221;
“I don’t know anything about politics. I have no idea,&#8221; Thornton added. &#8220;And the stuff that I believe about it, I don’t want to force it down somebody else’s throat ’cause I’m not an expert on that.”
Thornton also said trusting celebrities is a mistake.
“The fact that people put so much gravitas [into] this group of people that pretends things,” he added. “Just because you played a doctor doesn’t mean you are a doctor, just because you played a hero doesn’t make you a hero. And the people that listen to you, no matter how much we talk, they don’t know us. It’s such a small circle of people that know you, know you enough to trust you in your opinion.”
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On Monday&#8217;s episode of “The View,” co-host Joy Behar was furious with this concept, saying, &#8220;Imagine bragging about how uninformed you are.&#8221; 
Behar went on to praise celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and Robert De Niro, among the most radical leftist stars around, for always getting political. 
Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying, &#8220;We are at a crisis point in this country. I think democracy is participatory. I think when you have a platform, that means you have an outsized voice and when you have a platform, I think that you have a responsibility to speak up about what’s going on in this country and my view silence is complicity. We need every single ally to speak out.&#8221;
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin offered a different perspective, saying, &#8220;A, Billy Bob Thornton is one of my favorite actors. I’m never going to say a bad word about him, starting with that. But B, a lot of this table criticized George Clooney when he wrote his Biden op-ed.&#8221;
&#8220;That is a celebrity using his voice, saying what he believes, it can&#8217;t just be when they agree with your position,&#8221; Griffin added.
&#8220;He can say it and I can criticize it, that’s called free speech,&#8221; Behar shot back.
Griffin added that celebrities shouldn’t be “bullied” into speaking out, and that their participation by just posting on social media is more accurately described as “slacktivism.”
The panel continued to argue over whether celebs should voice political opinions, or whether, as Thornton suggested, their influence is often misplaced.

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WATCH: Billy Bob Thornton Has A Refreshingly Simple Answer When Politics Enter The Chat

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On Tuesday’s episode of The View, it was Joy Behar’s turn to play biblical scholar. The longtime co-host confidently asserted: “Jesus himself did not run around saying, ‘I’m the Messiah, I’m the Messiah.’”
Co-host Sara Haines, to her credit, immediately responded with the obvious: “That’s exactly what Jesus said, ‘I am the Messiah.’”
Let that sink in. One of television&#8217;s most prominent voices just rewrote the Gospels on live television because it was politically convenient. This is what passes for insight on daytime television. And don’t forget that ABC considers The View a news show.
Let’s do what Behar clearly hasn’t: open a Bible.
In John 4, Jesus sits down with the Samaritan woman at the well. She says the Messiah is coming. Jesus replies plainly: “I who speak to you am He.” In John 8:58, He declares, “Before Abraham was, I am” — a direct claim to the divine name of God from Exodus 3:14. The religious leaders tried to stone Him on the spot for blasphemy. During His trial before the high priest Caiaphas in Matthew 26, when asked if He was the Christ, the Son of the Blessed, Jesus answered, “I am.” That confession is what led directly to His crucifixion. The entire trial and execution hinge on Jesus affirming His identity as the promised Messiah.
Is Joy Behar having a Joe Biden moment?
Jesus didn’t “run around” shouting it like a campaign slogan, but He most certainly claimed it — repeatedly and clearly and with divine authority. He spoke as one with authority over the Law itself. The very reason He was crucified was because He claimed to be the Messiah.
This isn’t just garden-variety ignorance. It’s the sneering arrogance of the secular Left, which loves a neutered, hippie version of Jesus who never makes any uncomfortable truth claims. In reality, the real Jesus is far too politically incorrect for The View set. He’s the one who called religious hypocrites a “brood of vipers” and insisted He was the exclusive path to salvation. Joy Behar and company like to memory-hole the parts of the story that don’t fit their narrative.
The View has long been a safe space for this kind of casual anti-Christian contempt. From Whoopi Goldberg’s historical illiteracy to the panel&#8217;s routine sneers at Christian nationalists, these multimillionaire celebrities treat faith as either a joke or a weapon, depending on the target. Behar isn’t just wrong here, she’s confidently, arrogantly wrong. The kind of wrong that only comes from someone who hasn’t cracked open a Bible since she <a href="https://ffrf.org/publications/day/joy-behar/#:~:text=Raised%20Catholic%2C%20she%20now%20identifies,felt%20that%20I%20was%20brainwashed.%E2%80%9D">“lost her faith”</a> to “find herself.”
The irony is thicker than her makeup. These are the same hosts who invoke Jesus when they want to shame conservatives about immigration or taxes, but the second a Republican does anything remotely culturally Christian, suddenly He’s just some vague figure who never made any bold claims about Himself. Meanwhile, actual Christianity — the kind grounded in Scripture — remains the most persecuted faith on earth, absorbing violence while progressives like Behar lecture us from their cushy ABC perch about who the real threat is.
While Behar was busy screaming to America about narcissism during Holy Week, millions of Christians were celebrating the holiest days of the year — the week the Messiah did exactly what the Gospels record: He claimed His title, carried His cross, and rose from the dead three days later to prove every word true.
Next time Joy wants to play Bible scholar, maybe she should try reading one first.

ABC’s “The View” – Season 21

ABC News Host Joy Behar Claims Jesus Christ Never Called Himself Messiah

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A recent YouGov poll found that 47% of Americans <a href="https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54403-what-americans-think-about-overpopulation-birth-rates-and-children">view overpopulation</a> in the United States as a “very or somewhat serious problem,” while only 41% say the same about low birth rates.
The consequences of such inverted priorities are already catastrophic. America’s total fertility rate has collapsed to roughly 1.6 children per woman — far below the 2.1 replacement level needed to sustain a population without immigration.
But don’t share those statistics with Sunny Hostin over at “The View.”
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The View’s Sunny Hostin: “I think it’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children in this country.” <a href="https://t.co/iNRzG6AfcG">pic.twitter.com/iNRzG6AfcG</a>
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“It’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children,” said Hostin. “&#8230;when you now know, in this country, there is this affordability crisis and for a two-person household — a married household — you need over $400,000 for childcare.”
Now, you may think planning an armored car heist à la Michael Mann’s 1995 classic “Heat,” is reckless, but according to Hostin, I need <a href="https://alltherightmovies.com/feature/25-interesting-facts-about-heat/">$1.6 million</a> to take care of my eight children. Anything less and they <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/2038665904431497635">would be</a> impoverished, uneducated, homeless, and starving.
A taken-aback Ana Navarro then blurted out, “over the lifetime of a child, or what? A year?”
“No, a year,” Hostin said.
Hostin’s fearmongering would be laughable if it weren’t so effective. In April, the CDC announced that America reached a <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr043.pdf">record low</a> in births in 2025, down 1% since 2024 and 23% since 2007. With an estimated population of 342 million, the United States witnessed <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr043.pdf">3,606,400</a> births last year. In 1966, however, America saw a similar number, <a href="https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1967/demographics/P25-368.pdf">3,661,000</a> births, drawn from a population of less than 200 million.
Hostin was born in October 1968, six months after Stanford professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-of-the-most-evil-men-in-history-just-died">Paul Ehrlich</a> published his landmark book, “The Population Bomb.” When every single one of Ehrlich’s predictions — from mass starvation in the 1970s to global mineral shortages in the 1980s — turned out wrong, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1990.
Only 10% of Americans held a favorable opinion of Ehrlich at the time of his death, according to <a href="https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54403-what-americans-think-about-overpopulation-birth-rates-and-children">YouGov</a> — not too shabby given that only 20% of respondents knew who he was. And yet a full 100% of us have been living in his world — or at least his narrative — ever since he sounded the false alarm that human beings are a form of pollution.
The MacArthur Foundation tipped its cap to Ehrlich’s checkerspot butterfly expertise, but anyone can study the “behavior of an invertebrate population”. His true genius lay in marketing to other spineless populations. 
“A pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation,” the award <a href="https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1990/paul-r-ehrlich">citation</a> says. 
Paul Ehrlich may have been perennially wrong as a scientist, but he had a generational talent for scaring the wits out of dimwitted media personalities, craven politicians, cunning public health authorities, unimaginative screenwriters, and over-imaginative teachers. Exactly the type of marks a good con artist would need to capture if he were going to advance a narrative at war with reality. 
It worked.
On the same episode of “The View,” Sara Haines said, “The world has over 8 billion people. We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies. We have arrived.&#8221;
Socially, the fallout is devastating. Smaller families mean fewer siblings, weaker extended kinship networks, and the erosion of the “social capital” that once bound communities together. Low fertility <a href="https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/635c69dc-6a5a-467b-b7b0-3ab906fb4a94/the-consequences-of-declining-fertility-for-social-capital.pdf">reduces</a> community participation, trust, and mutual support — the very glue of civil society. 
Militarily, the danger is existential. Fewer young Americans mean a smaller pool of potential recruits at the exact moment great-power competition intensifies. The Pentagon already struggles with recruitment shortfalls; an aging, childless society cannot field the force required to deter adversaries like China. 
Economically, the math is brutal. A shrinking native-born workforce cannot support the entitlement programs built for a growing population. Social Security and Medicare face insolvency as the ratio of workers to retirees plummets. Every country that has experienced persistent sub-replacement fertility has seen its GDP growth slow, innovation shrivel, and burden younger generations with crushing tax loads to fund the vacations of the old.
The problem with effective propaganda campaigns is that they are hard to reverse. South Korea serves as a warning. In 1960, the average South Korean woman had six children. After decades of state-backed “family planning” and “voluntary” sterilization services lovingly provided by USAID, fertility fell below replacement and eventually below 1. The Clinton State Department <a href="https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/gli/gli_sep1998.pdf">lauded</a> South Korean population control as one of America’s standout achievements.
No 20th-century public intellectual better apprehended how misanthropic an elite could be. Gilded Age robber barons were at least honest about their rapacious need for more; the postwar meritocrats of the 1960s thought themselves too enlightened for greed but enjoyed all that money just the same. Then, along came a Stanford butterfly researcher, insisting that your neighbors’ kids are hurting the environment, and if only you kept more resources for yourself, nature would heal.
A growing cohort of Americans, particularly young Americans, is waking up to the fact that Paul Ehrlich was wrong all along. And Sunny Hostin’s fearmongering, not the science, has always been the point. Gallup found that 43% of Americans aged 18-29 now say the ideal family will have more than 3 children — a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/694640/americans-ideal-family-size-remains-above-two-children.aspx">13% jump</a> from the same cohort in 2011.
I remember the halcyon days of 2011 well. I welcomed my second daughter that year. Back then, the majority of my peers told pollsters that “Two is too many!” As Millennials settle into middle age, that number has plummeted by more than 20%. 
We are older and wise enough to know to turn the channel when “The View” comes on. Besides, chances are Michael Mann’s “Heat” is playing on some random cable channel at the very same time.
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Terry Schilling is president of the American Principles Project.

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Parents need to earn $400,000 each year to afford children, according to “The View” panelist Sunny Hostin. Her absurd <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=953345053913270">claim</a> made headlines last week because it’s ridiculous, but the practice of overinflating these numbers is nothing new. For years we’ve been inundated with claims about how much it really costs to raise kids. Some research says from birth to age 18, on average, parents will spend upwards of $250,000 taking their newborn into adulthood.
So how much is it, really? And more importantly: Is it worth it?
Hostin, who has two children, was reacting to Daily Wire host Isabel Brown making what should not have been a radical statement. Brown <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-told-gen-z-to-get-married-and-have-kids-the-view-lost-its-mind">said</a>, “If you’re not encouraging your children to grow up … get married and have kids — more kids than they can afford, before they think they’re ready, it is high time to start.”
This statement couldn’t be more important at a time when over half of the world’s countries now have fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. It’s a problem that hits close to home. By 2030, nearly 45% of American women aged 25-44 are projected to be single and childless.
The media keep pushing stories about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-viral-i-regret-my-kids-trend-is-getting-one-big-thing-wrong">regretful parents</a>, happy singles, and how “irresponsible” it is to have kids. They say it’s too expensive. But those of us with lots of kids, and way less money than Sunny Hostin, are here to say, no, it’s not.
As a regular middle class mom of five surrounded by other middle class friends and family in a very typical suburban town, I can tell you that most people I know don’t have a $400,000 income, but they do have kids. Most are homeowners with two cars who take annual vacations and whose children are involved in sports. Some of the wealthier friends have vacation homes, while some of those less well-off or single parents may rent their homes or do staycations instead.
My personal experience almost certainly differs from Hostin’s. However, I think most parents aren’t really spending $250,000 per child. These numbers are totally bogus.
A 2022 <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Brookings_Cost-to-raise-a-child_inflation-adjusted-2.pdf">report</a> from the Brookings Institution declared that a middle-income family with two children will spend approximately $310,605, adjusted for higher future inflation, to raise one child born in 2015 through age 17. A similar <a href="https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/raising-a-child-study/">study</a> put out by LendingTree last year had comparable findings, estimating the average annual cost to be $29,419, or a total of $297,674 for 18 years of parenting. None of these estimates includes the cost of college, which is a whole other issue.
The studies all note the difference between raising a child in a high cost of living area, such as Hawaii, and a low cost of living area, such as Mississippi. But they claim these numbers represent the average. As someone living in a mid-range area where a parent could expect to pay somewhere in the mid-range for child-raising, all I can say is, huh?
LendingTree broke down its cost analysis by category, taking into consideration factors including rent, groceries, transportation, health insurance, daycare, and apparel. The chart lays out the “bare-bones cost of raising [a] small child in [the] U.S.” and allots an amount for each category. But there’s one thing it fails to mention, namely that you’d be spending some amount of money on rent, food, and other essentials even if you didn’t have children. Also, parents spend their money differently than non-parents.
These studies assume that parents are spending, let’s say, $1,000 dollars of clothing per year for themselves and then $500 per child. With that rationale, adding two children to the household would increase total apparel expenditures to $2,000, right? But that’s oversimplifying the reality of life. Being a parent is a constant sacrifice of self, a rebalancing of priorities and goals. In practice, moms are more likely to take that whole $1,000 budget and spend 80% of it on their kids and 20% on themselves. Instead of increasing the budget, they will adjust where the money is going. And each child gets cheaper when you can use hand-me-downs.
When I was single and when I was married without kids, my diaper budget was $0. It increased with each child, forcing me to make cuts in other areas. Maybe it meant fewer dinners out or learning that home pedicures are less luxurious but more affordable. Now that my youngest twins are almost 5, our diaper budget is back to $0. Sounds like it’s time to schedule a pedicure.
The point is that families absorb new costs by adjusting others. That’s not to say that children don’t cost anything; my grocery bill would beg to differ. But these estimates are way off. The LendingTree report says “transportation costs” are $4,383 per year, which equals around $365 per month. An adult without children may not be spending her funds on a minivan, but she is just as likely to have a car payment.
The cost of raising kids is really what you make it. 
In a similar way, housing costs can become exorbitant if a family of seven opts to live in a six-bedroom house so everyone can have their own space. But if they’re like most of America, they use the high cost of real estate as another opportunity to humble themselves. My husband and I bought our first home, our three-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot starter home, one year after we married and before we had any children. Sixteen years and five kids later, we are still here in this little house. 
Our children share rooms with bunk beds and cram together on the couch so we can watch movies together. We all share a bathroom and stick to a shower schedule. Our rambling old van is not pretty, but it’s paid off. Our household income is nowhere near $400,000. I am not spending $150,000 per year ($30,000 times five kids) on these lovely little people I’m raising. Sunny Hostin would be flabbergasted.
Compared to a family with two children, the cost per child goes up if you only have one child (by 27%) and goes down per child (by 24%) once you have three or more, according to a Department of Agriculture <a href="https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog/cost-raising-child">report</a> in 2017. The report notes that this is because children can share bedrooms, clothing, and family responsibilities (fire the cleaning lady and assign some chores to your older kids!). Older children can babysit the younger ones. It’s interesting that this report hasn’t been updated in almost a decade.
Ultimately, it’s impossible to come up with a single number of what it costs to raise a child. The answer is, it depends. It depends on a family’s goals and values, on whether they buy their Nikes brand new or shop at thrift stores, on whether they’re an Aldi family or Whole Foods shoppers. It depends on whether or not one parent stays home with the kids to cut out the daycare fees. 
There are ways to save and spend at every income level, and children can be naturally absorbed into that by give and take in different areas. Children are not inherently expensive. For centuries people have been having far more kids with far less money and somehow making it work.
Isabel Brown was right. Our message to our children should be to have more kids than seems reasonable, before they feel ready. Not just because the future of humanity depends on it, but also because it’s worth every sacrifice.

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Elites Claim You Need Massive Income For Kids, But Parents Make One Key Trade-Off

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Daily Wire host Isabel Brown escalated her ongoing feud with The View this week, issuing a direct challenge to co-host Sara Haines after the ABC personality took fresh shots at her on the show’s podcast, Behind the Table.
The dispute traces back to Brown’s remarks at CPAC, where she encouraged young women to prioritize marriage and motherhood if they feel called to it, comments that quickly drew backlash from The View panel. 
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A few of you have sent me this &amp; asked me to weigh in… it seems <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahainesr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sarahainesr</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/TheView?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheView</a> has decided to strike again, calling my response to their unprovoked attack on me and my family “willful” and “ignorant.”
I genuinely harbor no ill will toward any of these women &#8211; I’ve… <a href="https://t.co/A7TyAquh6G">pic.twitter.com/A7TyAquh6G</a>
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Speaking on Behind the Table, The View’s podcast, Haines continued speaking against Brown, saying,  “I love babies, I love being married,” before adding that “there’s so much pressure in this world on women to define themselves by if they’re married and … if they have babies.” She pointed to friends who struggled to find partners or faced fertility challenges — listing gay couples in that category — arguing that those women “matter” just as much and should not feel diminished.
Haines also dismissed the reaction to the original segment from the show, saying she “refuse[d] to read it,” and suggesting Brown had “misconstrued” her comments. The co-host emphasized that modern feminism is about choice, whether that means marriage and children or not, and warned against what she sees as a cultural push back toward defining women primarily through family roles.
Brown, however, sharply rejected that framing, accusing Haines of distorting her views from the outset. “I never said that your entire worth is wrapped up in your ovaries,” she said, pushing back on claims that she reduces women to motherhood.
Instead, Brown argued that the cultural message coming from outlets like The View has had real consequences. “It is precisely because of the cultural programming that you guys are now peddling … by telling women not to prioritize getting married and having children,” Brown contends, that a generation of women is now “realizing … this might not get to be a part of my life anymore.”
She went further, directly challenging Haines’ argument about overpopulation. “We’re not facing an overpopulation crisis,” Brown said. “We are actually facing a dramatic underpopulation crisis across two thirds of the world’s population.”
Brown also drew a stark generational contrast, noting that Haines is “20 years older” and pointing to women later in life who regret not prioritizing family earlier. “You’re listening to all of these other women … and they’re thinking they missed the boat,” she said, arguing that biology ultimately sets limits many women are not being warned about.
But Brown’s response did not stop at policy or culture, it took on a more spiritual dimension, particularly as the exchange unfolded during Holy Week.
“Yes, I do believe that it is not coincidental whatsoever that the most blatantly disgusting attack on the family we’ve seen in the mainstream media happened during Holy Week,” Brown said, framing the backlash as part of a broader moral struggle. “There are forces at play all around us … weighing in on matters of good and evil.”
That theme echoes Brown’s earlier response to The View, where she accused the hosts of “shrieking like demons” at the idea of encouraging young women to have children and argued that the family remains the “strongest threat to evil” in the world. 
At the same time, Brown positioned herself as advocating not for restriction, but prioritization, particularly for younger women. “There’s nothing anti-woman … about telling young women you should make it a priority … so that you don’t miss the window,” she said.
That framing carried into a separate post accompanying her video response, where Brown struck a more measured tone. “I genuinely harbor no ill will toward any of these women — I’ve never even met any of them!! — but do remain utterly stumped at their lack of social awareness,” she wrote, arguing that the reaction to The View’s segment reflected broader public discomfort with attacks on family and motherhood.
She also called out the show’s refusal to host a direct exchange, “The View is refusing to host an honest conversation between us,” Brown wrote, adding that it was “disappointing, really, for a show that’s supposed to be about multiple ‘View’points.” Noting that The View had <a href="https://ew.com/isabel-brown-alleges-the-view-declined-request-defend-herself-on-air-11940327">declined to host her</a>, she issued a fresh, direct invitation. “I am extending a genuine, honest invite to you to come on my show,” Brown said, offering to fly Haines to Nashville for a “real conversation” about women, family, and the future. “The show The View is supposed to be about different points of view,” she added. “Obviously, that’s not happening.”
She closed her post on a note reflecting the season in which the debate is unfolding: “God bless you, and happy Easter.”
The increasing back-and-forth underscores a deeper cultural divide, one that extends beyond television segments and into questions of faith, family, and the direction of modern feminism. As the debate intensifies, Brown is making clear she wants that conversation face-to-face.

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Isabel Brown Challenges ‘The View’

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I spent the day watching more of “The View” than I ever have before in my life.
Turns out, the insufferable hosts of this failing network show, on Disney-owned ABC, took it upon themselves to spend seven uninterrupted minutes on national television <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-host-fires-back-after-the-view-melts-down-over-her-support-for-young-families?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Daily+Wire+Host+Fires+Back+After+%E2%80%98The+View%E2%80%99+Melts+Down+Over+Her+Support+For+Young+Families">bashing me</a> by name, and anyone else with the audacity to promote marriage and parenthood to Gen Z.
I’ve been a content creator since 2019, covering some of the most contentious issues in the American culture war, and I’ve gotta be honest: I never thought this, my most wholesome, pro-America take, would be the thing I’d get attacked for.
Last week, I joined a panel of incredible women on stage at CPAC to discuss the importance of the American family, and was asked specifically to talk about what it’s going to take to save America. My answer was one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-host-torches-the-view-over-claim-only-rich-women-can-afford-kids?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Daily+Wire+Host+Torches+%E2%80%98The+View%E2%80%99+Over+Claim+Only+Rich+Women+Can+Afford+Kids">I often repeat</a> in speeches or interviews, and reflects a simple timeless truth — we must renew the importance of the family as the cornerstone of society again to a generation that’s being lied to about it. Addressing a crowd older than myself, I said this:
<blockquote>If you’re not encouraging your children to grow up and have the courage to grow up to get married and have kids — more kids than they can afford, before they think they’re ready, it is high time to start.</blockquote>
Before long, Whoopi Goldberg &amp; company would be furious and virtually foaming at the mouth over the very idea that I promote marriage and motherhood to my generation, and dedicated an entire segment of everyone’s favorite “View-erless” show to launch an attack. 
The “anti-family” segment on &#8220;The View&#8221; opened with Whoopi predictably labeling me a racist – because, clearly, I must only want more white people to have children as a white woman myself. That’s obviously not true. 
But it’s a curious criticism coming from Whoopi Goldberg, an ardent supporter of the abortion industry, which grew in America specifically as a way to kill black babies in the womb at the hands of renowned and infamous eugenicist Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.
In 2022, Black women made up about 40 % of all abortions reported in the U.S. – in New York City today, as Whoopi Goldberg runs her mouth on television from the heart of Manhattan, you are more likely to be aborted as a black baby than you are to be born… all in the name of racial progress and equity, right?
Let me be clear: the only racial component to any of this is the continued desire by the abortion industry to convince black women it’s more empowering to end the lives of their children than to give birth to them.
Moving through the panel, Sara Haines spent her time on air reminding viewers that having kids is a choice. That’s true. But what about my choice, and that of literally billions of other women around the world, to get married and have children? The very notion is seemingly unfathomable to the women on this miserable panel.
In other words, if you make the choice to “want” kids – it’s the wrong choice. You’re less of a woman. You aren’t a feminist. You don’t support equality. You deserve to be publicly SHAMED, which is exactly what they proceed to do to me.
Ironically, every woman but one around that table has children of their own. And every one of them is either in a long-term relationship or has been married. They somehow make it work as working moms. They have had the courage to commit their lives to someone they love. They get to snuggle their babies at the end of a long day of work — so, why isn’t it worth pursuing for you?
For the rest of the segment, all of the hosts collectively wasted air throwing out every anti-natalist argument to see what would stick.
They lied, saying having children is somehow beneath women, that we as a sex (amazing, how suddenly we can all define woman, right?) have come “too far” to still be sucked into the innate, natural, instinctual desire to have a beautiful baby and share your life with someone.
They lied, claiming childcare costs a whopping $400,000 a year, so must be financially inaccessible to anyone outside of the 1% of the 1%. For the record, it costs about $10,000-$15,000 on average a year… but I wouldn’t expect a woman screaming at me in an $800 jacket to know.
They lied, saying if you want a baby you must be in an abusive, oppressive marriage to an evil, misogynistic man–and someone ought to help you escape with a divorce attorney. To clarify: I love my husband, and no one is more supportive of my motherhood journey or my career.
They lied, saying that I must not understand how tough having kids are because I have a mere one-year-old, who “just sleeps all day.” News to me, after over a year of my life not sleeping all the way through the night.
They lied, saying that breastfeeding ruins your boobs. I know Whitney Cummings remains deeply concerned about my breasts – after 11 months of breastfeeding my daughter, they’re doing just fine.
They lied, of course, to claim we’re facing an overpopulation crisis, which is objectively the opposite of our current reality. In fact, over half of the world’s countries and areas now have fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. These countries represent over two-thirds of the global population, and that number is expected to increase to over 90% by the end of this century.
By 2030, nearly 45% of American women aged 25-44 are projected to be single and childless.
It’s not hard to understand why – virtually every single influencer, television show, movie, college professor, woke pastor, politician, and mainstream media outlet today is dedicating massive air time to trying to convince you NOT to have kids.
Why? Because they want you miserable and lonely. They are intentionally seeking to brainwash you into what my friend &amp; fellow mom Allie Beth Stuckey calls “Toxic Empathy,” so you think you&#8217;re a better person and more compassionate for essentially hating children.
In fact, getting married and having kids is better for everyone in the long term. One study found that having kids increases your wealth by 23% throughout your life. Young married moms are three times happier than their unmarried, childless counterparts. Statistically, married, religious couples with children have the most satisfying intimate lives.
Most importantly, the joy and purpose we experience in sharing our lives with our children is unparalleled anywhere else in our often empty and meaningless society.
How dare we want that for the next generation, right?
I further find no coincidence that this segment aired this week at the start to Holy Week as we walk toward Christ’s Passion on the cross this Friday and His resurrection into heaven on Easter Sunday. The family is the most beautiful example we have of God’s perfect design for humanity. His love is exemplified for us as we lay down our lives for one another, humbling ourselves to serve our spouses and our children. The family, as a result, presents an unparalleled threat to the demonic forces of evil and darkness in our world.
St. John Paul II said during his tenure as Pope, “As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live,” and “The future of humanity passes by way of the family.”
&#8220;The View’s&#8221; attack on the family and those promoting it is just the latest example of spiritual warfare being waged against what is good and true and beautiful, and we must remain deeply committed to sharing the timeless truth of God even in today’s culture.
Mother Teresa once famously said, “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” These words have always been meaningful to me, but certainly have packed a huge gut punch this week as I reflect on the unexpected backlash to such a simple message I shared on stage last week.
It’s a call to action for all of us to ponder, and determine what course we will walk as we work to build our own American Dream as a generation among Gen Z.
The truth is, there’s no better advertisement for the joy of a God-centered marriage than the alternative being blast on full display from the set of &#8220;The View&#8221; – would you rather live among the misery, contempt, and judgment of these angry middle aged women, or pursue purpose and fulfillment in marriage and motherhood while you can?
So, thanks to the ladies of &#8220;The View&#8221; for giving me another opportunity to address this issue. In case it wasn’t clear, I stand by everything I said at CPAC. And in case you’re still unsure at this point, let me reiterate:
Have the courage to fall in love, get married, and make more babies.
It’s good for the world, and even better for you.

JOY BEHAR, SARA HAINES, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, ROBIN WRIGHT, SUNNY HOSTIN, ALYSSA FARAH

I Told Gen Z To Get Married And Have Kids — ‘The View’ Lost Its Mind

I Told Gen Z To Get Married And Have Kids — 'The View' Lost Its Mind

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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Isabel Brown doubled down on her support for younger women embracing traditional families, once again calling out the &#8220;out of touch&#8221; hosts of &#8220;The View&#8221; who had attacked her position the day before.
Brown joined host — and mother of nine children with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy — Rachel Campos-Duffy, on Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends,&#8221; where she pointed out several of the fallacies in the claims made by the ladies on ABC&#8217;s daytime talk show.
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Isabel, <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theisabelb</a> claps back at the ladies of The View, who called her reckless for promoting babies and families. <a href="https://t.co/6HXUKEde9E">pic.twitter.com/6HXUKEde9E</a>
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Campos-Duffy opened the segment by asking for Brown&#8217;s reaction to the &#8220;peak elitism&#8221; exhibited by the hosts of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-host-fires-back-after-the-view-melts-down-over-her-support-for-young-families">The View</a>,&#8221; who had essentially claimed that only rich people could truly afford to have children.
Brown began by pointing out that the outrage had been directed at a short clip of a much broader conversation that was part of a panel discussion for the past weekend&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), saying, &#8220;I never expected that that was going to be my Monday. That clip that they reacted to &#8230; was a very short two seconds of the greater conversation that we were having, clearly taken wildly out of context and with the intention to continue pushing the anti-family propaganda on the women of our generation.&#8221;
She went on to argue that the women on &#8220;The View,&#8221; all of whom have children and are well off, were &#8220;out of touch&#8221; when it came to the average American woman and her family decisions.
&#8220;Elitism is the perfect word to describe just how out of touch these women really are,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Because most of them are married with children and worth millions upon millions of dollars — but they have the audacity to scream at you, like Sunny Hostin did yesterday, wearing an $800 jacket and lying to you, saying that childcare costs $400,000 per year. If that were the case, no one would be able to afford children.&#8221;
Brown, who has one child, went on to say that her real concern was cohost Whoopi Goldberg and the fact that she&#8217;d wrapped up the segment by scolding, &#8220;&#8216;Isabel, how dare you tell women to want to have children, if you&#8217;re saying that, I&#8217;m going to send you back to the past.&#8217; So it&#8217;s always about choice for these people, until that choice is the beauty and the joy and the purpose of marriage and motherhood, which of course we should be encouraging people to strive for.&#8221;
Brown and Campos-Duffy went on to discuss studies showing that, by far, the happiest people are women who have embraced marriage and motherhood — especially those who have made career sacrifices to ensure that their families come first.
&#8220;This is something that the left doesn&#8217;t want us to talk about,&#8221; Campos-Duffy said, arguing that they saw the rise of young families as a threat.
&#8220;We&#8217;re claiming that we live in the most empowered time for women in all of human history, and yet the only level of empowerment that they are willing to give you is if you forgo committing your life to your best friend and bringing new life into the world through the miracle of pregnancy and motherhood,&#8221; Brown agreed.

Daily Wire Host Torches ‘The View’ Over Claim Only Rich Women Can Afford Kids

'Peak Elitism': Daily Wire Host Hits Back At 'The View' For Saying Only Rich Women Can Afford Babies

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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Isabel Brown fired back after the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; went into full meltdown mode on Monday over her passionate support for younger women embracing more traditional families.
&#8220;I’d like to thank the women of @TheView for showing their truest, darkest colors today: they’re literally shrieking like demons at the thought of encouraging young women to have children. PS &#8211; &#8216;stupidest&#8217; isn&#8217;t a real word,&#8221; Brown posted.
&#8220;They want you to hate happy, healthy, fulfilled young people with kids. Even more disturbingly, they want you to hate babies so much that you never want them in the first place. Their response to my encouragement for Gen Z women to get married and have kids? &#8216;You&#8217;re telling people to have as many babies as they want to? Again I&#8217;m going to send you back into the past,'&#8221; Brown continued. &#8220;In other words, *wanting* a baby literally is not a choice as a so-called &#8217;empowered&#8217; woman in 2026.&#8221;
Brown doubled down, saying that she believed the family was the &#8220;strongest threat to evil&#8221; in the world, and adding, &#8220;Again, I reiterate: HAVE THE COURAGE to get married and have a beautiful family. Your life will be better because of it.&#8221;
After promising to further address the topic — and the comments from &#8220;The View&#8221; — on her next Daily Wire show, Brown shared the full segment from the ABC midday talk show: &#8220;If you just can&#8217;t help yourself in the meantime &amp; want to grab some popcorn — here&#8217;s the whole segment of 5 grown women screeching about how I am the &#8220;stupidest&#8221; person on the Internet, who should divorce my husband, and probably never should have become a mom in the first place. Misery sure loves projection, doesn&#8217;t it?&#8221;
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And if you just can&#8217;t help yourself in the meantime &amp; want to grab some popcorn &#8211; here&#8217;s the whole segment of 5 grown women screeching about how I am the &#8220;stupidest&#8221; person on the Internet, who should divorce my husband, and probably never should have become a mom in the first… <a href="https://t.co/ijm2z8MxfV">pic.twitter.com/ijm2z8MxfV</a>
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb/status/2038691529795965026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Whoopi Goldberg opened the segment with a clip of Brown, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), encouraging young women to get married and have children — and she and her cohosts immediately claimed that Brown was promoting backward thinking.
Goldberg began by claiming that women of color had been criticized in the past for having too many children, saying they were the reason that government assistance programs were getting cut.
Cohost Sara Haines argued that by promoting traditional families, Brown was reducing women to only the value of their reproductive organs: &#8220;The whole women&#8217;s movement was not about bucking the trend of staying at home or loving tradition. It was giving women a choice to do what they wanted. And that&#8217;s what this is too. Marriage, children. It&#8217;s a choice.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact we keep putting this on women, that their only worth in society, politics, policy is if they produce a baby or have a husband is the stupidest, most old-fashioned thing!&#8221; Haines continued. &#8220;We have come too far! The world has over 8 billion people! We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies! We have arrived here! Women now and girls now have a choice!&#8221;
Ana Navarro also weighed in, ignoring the fact that Brown had been clear about women getting married prior to starting families and complaining that no one was expecting men to step up and be responsible for all the babies.
&#8220;If you&#8217;re not paying my bills, you don&#8217;t get to tell me what I do with my uterus,&#8221; she declared.
Cohost Sunny Hostin went a different direction entirely, claiming that Brown&#8217;s position was untenable primarily because of President Donald Trump. Blaming him for the fact that child care was too expensive for most working families, Hostin argued that women should think twice before following her advice.
Goldberg followed right behind, arguing that red states were enacting laws that were not encouraging women to do anything other than &#8220;flee&#8221; from them: &#8220;You&#8217;re telling people to have as many babies as they want to? Again I&#8217;m going to send you back into the past.&#8221;

Daily Wire Host Fires Back After ‘The View’ Melts Down Over Her Support For Young Families

Daily Wire Host Fires Back After 'The View' Melts Down Over Her Support For Young Families

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Whoopi Goldberg took a moment during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; to lecture War Secretary Pete Hegseth about what it means to be a soldier, arguing that he &#8220;should know&#8221; what he was subjecting service members to when they deployed to the Middle East.
Goldberg and her cohosts insisted, as they have previously, that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration launched Operation Epic Fury and unleashed American military force on the Iranian regime without first planning for contingencies. That, she complained, meant that he was &#8220;sending people in to die.&#8221;
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Whoopi claims the administration is just &#8220;sending people in to die&#8221; &#8220;without a plan&#8221; and nothing else. Despite never serving herself, she lectures Secretary Hegseth (who did serve) about what it means &#8220;to be a solider in our Army&#8221; and claims he doesn&#8217;t care about the lives of… <a href="https://t.co/nUun9OJxd3">pic.twitter.com/nUun9OJxd3</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2036836077256798303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2026</a></blockquote>
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After first asserting that the United States was manipulating the numbers to hide the number of American troops who were already deployed to the Middle East and the number of those who had been hurt or killed, Goldberg asserted that there was still no plan in place to bring Operation Epic Fury to an end.
&#8220;At this point, at this point, I want them to stop what they&#8217;re doing. They are sending people in to die. They are sending people in to die and I&#8217;m surprised because Hegseth served,&#8221; Goldberg said, suggesting that because American troops were in harm&#8217;s way, Hegseth could not possibly have planned the operation.
&#8220;Yes, he did,&#8221; Sunny Hostin agreed.
&#8220;He served. He should know what —&#8221; Goldberg said.
Cohost Abby Huntsman added, &#8220;He should know better than anybody.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, better than any body, but when you listen to [Hegseth] — Stop looking so angry! He should know more than anybody what it takes to be a soldier in our Army,&#8221; Goldberg explained, adding, &#8220;What it means when you send people in. When you send them in with a plan, it&#8217;s horrific. You send them in without a plan, you willy-nilly and you&#8217;re not explaining what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;
&#8220;Fathers, mothers, daughters, sisters, brothers, these are all our American citizens who are being asked to do this. And because, because of the way the military is, they will do what they&#8217;re asked to do,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Damn it, I&#8217;d rather this were in the hands of people who actually cared about them enough to say, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to do everything I can for you to be not in a place where you could be killed.'&#8221;

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