The day after President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2026 State of the Union address, the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; first made it clear that they were not impressed with him, but then reserved some of their sharpest critiques for Democrats like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who &#8220;gave him his moment.&#8221;
Cohost Joy Behar complained that the whole thing had made her &#8220;furious and scared,&#8221; adding that she was &#8220;physically ill from it and more nauseous than usual watching him.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin whines about Trump using the term &#8216;illegals&#8217; to accurately describe illegals and falsely claims everyone had stopped using it before Trump came along. She also complains that Democrats even attended the address because they looked bad: 
&#8220;That saying that people are… <a href="https://t.co/zqUlybiz1c">pic.twitter.com/zqUlybiz1c</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2026697528079515709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, began her review by complaining that the president insists upon using the term &#8220;illegal&#8221; when referring to people who have entered the United States illegally.
&#8220;That saying that people are illegal, illegal aliens. That really matters,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We haven&#8217;t used that term for so long. Now it&#8217;s back in vogue. You are not illegal as a human being just because you&#8217;re undocumented, and so that for me, that felt dehumanizing to our immigrant population.&#8221;
Hostin then recalled a conversation from the day before — when Behar argued that Democrats should boycott the speech entirely to avoid giving Trump the appearance of legitimacy — and said that although she&#8217;d disagreed at the time, watching the president speak had changed her mind.
&#8220;Someone like Ilhan Omar, who fiercely is protective of Minnesotans and Somalians in particular, she gave him that moment that he wanted when the Democrats wouldn&#8217;t stand because he was calling people illegal aliens, they didn&#8217;t stand, and he called them crazy. They gave him all these moments,&#8221; Hostin complained. &#8220;They were used as props. It was disgusting.&#8221;

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WATCH: The Day After Trump’s SOTU Address, ‘The View’ Hosts Are Mad At Democrats

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Whoopi Goldberg floated a bizarre theory during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; on ABC, suggesting that FBI Director Kash Patel had been sent to Italy to watch Team USA&#8217;s first Olympic hockey gold medal in 46 years because the rank and file wanted him out of the way.
Goldberg and her cohosts began the segment by bashing Patel for going to the championship game between fierce rivals, the United States and Canada, because that meant he was not present to handle other major issues in which the FBI has been deeply involved.
Cohost Ana Navarro mentioned the videos that showed Patel partying with Team USA in the locker room after their overtime win, and complained that he was behaving like &#8220;a member of &#8216;Animal House,'&#8221; and claimed she had no idea what he was even doing there.
Sara Haines argued that she personally would rather have a law enforcement leader who was &#8220;serious and borderline boring,&#8221; complaining that he was partying instead of dealing with real issues like the upheaval in Mexico and the Secret Service-involved shooting at Mar-a-Lago.
&#8220;Right now the world doesn&#8217;t feel settled or stable, and you&#8217;ve got the head of the FBI, and the visual of chugging a beer in a locker room,&#8221; she added, arguing that he was not helping the administration to appear more &#8220;competent&#8221; and that the whole scenario was &#8220;a bit of an insult to the American people.&#8221;
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Whoopi suggests the rest of the FBI told Patel to get out of the office to get their &#8220;incompetent&#8221; boss out of their hair so they could do their jobs: 
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to put a positive spin on it. Maybe the folks in the FBI say, &#8216;yeah, Kash, go do that&#8217; so they don&#8217;t have to deal with… <a href="https://t.co/Fjof0tBmGn">pic.twitter.com/Fjof0tBmGn</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2025970450304524565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg then pivoted to suggest that maybe the move had come at the behest of some in the FBI who felt that they would be better able to do their jobs if Patel was off doing something else.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to put a positive spin on it. Maybe the folks in the FBI say, &#8216;yeah, Kash, go do that&#8217; so they don&#8217;t have to deal with him, because they know he doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They know that he is incompetent. They know that he is just — he is a joke and he is a joke in the rest of the world. And because for most of the people working in the FBI it is not a joke. They are the ones whose eyes are on the ball.&#8221;
Patel himself <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kash-patel-owns-partying-with-usa-hockey-team-yes-i-love-america">addressed the media</a> scrutiny in a post to X, saying that he&#8217;d been invited to celebrate with Team USA after their gold-medal win and had chosen to do so.
&#8220;For the very concerned media — yes, I love America and was extremely humbled when my friends, the newly minted Gold Medal winners on Team USA, invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment with the boys,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Greatest country on earth and greatest sport on earth.&#8221;

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Whoopi Floats Wild FBI Theory Tying Kash Patel To Team USA’s Gold Medal Moment

Whoopi Thinks The FBI Sent Kash Patel To USA Hockey Game To Get Rid Of Him

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; elevated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to &#8220;MENSA&#8221; status during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast, drawing a bizarre comparison between the Democratic socialist darling and President Donald Trump.
Led by Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, the ABC midday talk show&#8217;s hosts argued that Trump&#8217;s occasional verbal gaffes — including one recent instance in which he mentioned Iceland in place of Greenland — stand as incontrovertible evidence that Ocasio-Cortez is a certifiable genius by comparison.
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After playing soundbites of Trump mispronouncing words, Joy Behar tries to claim AOC&#8217;s rambling answer on Taiwan was &#8220;Mensa&#8221; material. 
Savannah Chrisley immediately counters: &#8220;Mispronouncing a word is totally different than not knowing your position on Taiwan.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/702X6SOJNY">pic.twitter.com/702X6SOJNY</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2024155209220464949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The hyperbolic comparison came after the Bronx congresswoman made several statements over the weekend that spotlighted her ignorance of both world history and current U.S. foreign policy. The first was a statement she made criticizing Secretary of State Marco Rubio for claiming that horses and the idea of American &#8220;cowboys&#8221; were originally brought to the United States by Spanish explorers and conquistadors. Of course, Rubio was correct. And the second was a rambling, incoherent response to a question about whether or not American troops should defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.
Goldberg responded to the brouhaha regarding Ocasio-Cortez by playing a brief clip of Trump clearly saying &#8220;Iceland&#8221; when he meant to say &#8220;Greenland.&#8221;
&#8220;So, clearly &#8230;&#8221; she said, letting her voice trail off.
&#8220;My mother used to say, &#8216;Don&#8217;t spit up in the air, it comes back in your face,'&#8221; Behar added. &#8220;Okay? Check him out before you start attacking AOC, who, by the way, it sounded a little &#8216;homina, homina, homina,&#8217; but you know, compared to him it&#8217;s like MENSA.&#8221;
Guest Savannah Chrisley stepped in to defend the president, saying that his &#8220;mispronouncing a word&#8221; was a far cry from having no idea what a policy was or how to articulate it.
&#8220;[It&#8217;s] totally different than not knowing your position on Taiwan,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And what&#8217;s important is how you recover from something.&#8221;
Trump followed his gaffe by meeting with world leaders and discussing global affairs and American interests, while Ocasio-Cortez went to The New York Times to complain that conservatives were sharing unflattering clips of her saying exactly what she&#8217;d said.
&#8220;The recovery is what mattered, and AOC just didn&#8217;t have a recovery,&#8221; Chrisley said.
&#8220;But he does it over and over again,&#8221; Behar complained. &#8220;How about the quantity of times?&#8221;
Goldberg then interrupted to point out that Trump is the current president, which obviously made his verbal gaffes a bigger deal than AOC&#8217;s, but made no effort to explain why she&#8217;d been silent while former President Joe Biden — while in office — was often unable to complete a sentence without mumbling something unintelligible or saying something staffers would have to clean up later.
&#8220;My point is, I can take &#8216;homina, homina&#8217; from congresspeople and stuff, you don&#8217;t have your stuff together, that&#8217;s on you,&#8221; Goldberg declared. &#8220;Can&#8217;t take it from the guy who says he&#8217;s the leader of the free world.&#8221;

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‘The View’ Elevates AOC To ‘MENSA’ Status In Bizarre Trump Comparison

‘The View’ Elevates AOC To 'MENSA' Status In Bizarre Trump Comparison

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg attempted to shrug off her own appearance in recently-released documents related to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, claiming during a Tuesday broadcast that she was &#8220;too old&#8221; for his tastes.
Goldberg, who reportedly reached out to the disgraced financier with a request to borrow his jet, argued on Tuesday that she &#8220;wasn&#8217;t his friend&#8221; and complained that people were making claims linking her to Epstein without first getting all the facts.
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After two weeks of silence, The View finally addresses Whoopi Goldberg being in the Epstein files and seemingly requesting to borrow his jet.
JOY BEHAR: Anybody can be on this list.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Anybody. Well, this is my point. Because, I&#8217;m telling you when I tell you… <a href="https://t.co/7vBqpKFTHD">pic.twitter.com/7vBqpKFTHD</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2023796105427759321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Now, in the name of transparency &#8230; my name is in the files,&#8221; Goldberg said, beginning the segment by showing an email that linked her to Epstein. &#8220;Yes! And what does it say? It says, &#8216;Whoopi needs a plane to get to Monaco.'&#8221;
She explained that she&#8217;d been trying to get to a charity event and had simply needed to find transportation.
&#8220;So, in other words, anybody can be on this list,&#8221; co-host Joy Behar said.
&#8220;Anybody — well, this is my point. Because I&#8217;m telling you when I tell you people are trying to turn me into — I wasn&#8217;t his girlfriend. I wasn&#8217;t his friend,&#8221; Goldberg said.
&#8220;You were too old for him,&#8221; co-host Sara Haines joked.
&#8220;I was not only too old, but it was at a time, you know, where this is just not — you used to have to have facts before you said stuff,&#8221; Goldberg — who was suspended for saying that the Holocaust was &#8220;not about race&#8221; and suggested Dr. (Ed.) Jill Biden would be an excellent Surgeon General — complained.
Behar quickly flipped the conversation to attack President Donald Trump, adding, &#8220;But Trump is on the list 38,000 times. Come on!&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I can&#8217;t speak to him, but I&#8217;m speaking about me because I&#8217;m getting dragged,&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;People actually believe that I was with him. It&#8217;s like, honey, come on.&#8221;
Haines suggested that people were just looking for scapegoats in the list of names recently connected to Epstein — some of whom, such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, were already dead.
&#8220;They dropped like 300 names and it&#8217;s like flood the zone because when you look in there, there&#8217;s people like Marilyn Monroe, who was dead &#8230; because a lot of the reasons your name can be mentioned are news articles, third party emails, contacts, again, wealthy, famous people often cross in professional and social circles, so that&#8217;s not the surprising part,&#8221; she said.
Despite defending Goldberg&#8217;s connection to Epstein as simply the result of &#8220;wealthy, famous people&#8221; traveling in similar orbits, it did not appear to occur to anyone at the table that Trump — who also qualifies as a &#8220;wealthy, famous&#8221; person — might be able to explain his own appearance in the Epstein documents the same way.

Whoopi Responds After Name Surfaces In Epstein Docs — See How She Explains It

Whoopi Shrugs Off Appearance In Epstein Docs, Claims She Was 'Too Old' For Him

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested on Tuesday that her decision to attend the star-studded 2026 Grammy Awards was really just her way of getting &#8220;out into the community&#8221; while the Court was on hiatus.
Jackson joined the cohosts on ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; where she was primarily promoting the young adult version of her memoir, but the conversation turned to her appearance at the awards show and Republicans who&#8217;d criticized her for attending.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson defends her appearance at the Grammys after a GOP senator called for an investigation: &#8220;When the justices are on recess, which is what we are doing right now, we really have an opportunity to go out into the community in various different ways.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/kVUMxIEoIK">pic.twitter.com/kVUMxIEoIK</a>
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&#8220;Some Republicans have criticized the fact that you were even there, given the sort of hot potato political thing with Bad Bunny, et cetera,&#8221; cohost Joy Behar pointed out. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t think you should be there. In fact, Senator Blackburn, Marsha Blackburn, has called for an investigation into your impartiality. So — do you have any response to that?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I mean, when you are in public life, criticism, you know, is part of the job. I&#8217;m sure all of you have faced it,&#8221; Jackson replied, prompting laughter from everyone around the table.
&#8220;Another part of the job, actually, my job, is public outreach and education,&#8221; Jackson continued. &#8220;When the justices are on recess, which is what we are doing right now, we really have an opportunity to go out into the community in various different ways.&#8221;
Jackson went on to explain that she&#8217;d been in Los Angeles for a moot court — an educational simulation of the appellate court process — &#8220;and it just so happened that I got nominated for this Grammy, and I was already going to be there, and I thought this is great opportunity to highlight my work in this way and to see what&#8217;s happening at the Grammys.&#8221;
Jackson was nominated in the Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording category for her memoir “Lovely One,&#8221; but ultimately lost to the Dalai Lama.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Suggests Attending Grammys Was Basically Community Outreach

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Joy Behar strained the imagination with her latest comparison, claiming on &#8220;The View&#8221; that ousted CNN anchor Don Lemon was just like the late World War II General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Behar recalled Eisenhower&#8217;s efforts to document the atrocities of the concentration camps — and then claimed that when Lemon shadowed protesters as they stormed a church in Minneapolis, he was simply making a similar effort to preserve history.
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Joy Behar equates Don Lemon going into that St. Paul church to Eisenhower bringing in journalists to witness concentration camps:
JOY BEHAR: So, i mean, all I can say is its in the Constitution, the right to protest; and he wasn&#8217;t even there protesting. He was there as a… <a href="https://t.co/ZMKoLS2980">pic.twitter.com/ZMKoLS2980</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2018738088642531537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So, I mean, all I can say is it&#8217;s in the Constitution, the right to protest,&#8221; Behar began, making no mention of the rights of the churchgoers to practice their religion without fear of intimidation and threats. She then pivoted to argue that Lemon — who was captured on video discussing the protest plans with one of the organizers before entering the church — was not there to protest anyway.
&#8220;And he wasn&#8217;t even there protesting. He was there as a journalist,&#8221; she insisted.
&#8220;Correct,&#8221; cohost Sunny Hostin agreed.
&#8220;And I think they want to use him as some kind of an example to intimidate other journalists,&#8221; Behar added, parroting the exact claim made by Lemon after he was arrested in connection with the protest.
&#8220;But, you know, I was reading something the other day about World War II, when the Americans liberated Dachau, after World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower said take pictures of these concentration camps because years will go by and people will not believe this happened,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;So, this administration does not really like somebody like Don Lemon who has a camera, who has a position like we do in a way to speak to the people and tell them what really is going on.&#8221;
But Behar did not explain how Lemon&#8217;s video of protesters disrupting a church service aligned with the photos taken of Jewish Holocaust victims at Eisenhower&#8217;s behest.
&#8220;So, you know, God bless Dwight D. Eisenhower and Don Lemon,&#8221; she concluded.
Critics were not impressed with Behar&#8217;s conclusion, however.
&#8220;In one of the most tortured Holocaust metaphors in modern history, @ABC News&#8217; employee Joy Behar suggests that Don Lemon breaking up a church service is like Eisenhower sending in journalists to witness concentration camps. In her metaphor, church attendees &#8230; are the Nazis,&#8221; Matt Whitlock <a href="https://x.com/MattWhitlock/status/2019063576883761276">observed</a>.
&#8220;The hottest take yet is that Cities Church in St. Paul is basically another Dachau,&#8221; Jerry Dunleavy <a href="https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/2019080949057663303">added</a>.
And <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/2019084337619099840">from</a> Chuck Ross, &#8220;ABC&#8217;s Joy Behar literally comparing Nazi concentration camps to a church where an ICE employee serves as an associate pastor.&#8221;
&#8220;What exactly does Joy Behar think was going on inside Cities Church?!&#8221; Jorge Bonilla <a href="https://x.com/BonillaJL/status/2018750802223935841">said</a>.

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‘The View’ Host Makes Bizarre Connection Between Don Lemon And Dwight Eisenhower

'The View' Host Makes Bizarre Connection Between Don Lemon And Dwight Eisenhower

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Ana Navarro suggested on Monday that President Donald Trump and his administration had effectively cooked the books in their efforts to arrest former CNN host Don Lemon in connection with a protest that disrupted a Minneapolis church service a week earlier.
Navarro and her cohosts on ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; discussed Lemon&#8217;s arrest, and their conversation covered the entire spectrum, from Navarro and Sunny Hostin insisting that the case had no merit and would be dismissed to Whoopi Goldberg wringing her hands and warning that the Trump administration could arrest anyone the president didn&#8217;t like.
Navarro began by claiming that an appellate court&#8217;s refusal to compel a lower court judge to sign off on Lemon&#8217;s arrest warrant amounted to judges laughing the DOJ out of their courtrooms. She did not mention the fact that one of the judges concerned said that he agreed there was probable cause to arrest Lemon.
&#8220;So, they basically did it themselves,&#8221; she asserted. &#8220;Make no mistake about it. This was about gaslighting, this was about going against Don lemon and other journalists. By the way, all of whom happen to be black. Happy Black History Month. And I think it&#8217;s to send a chilling message to anybody who is covering facts.&#8221;
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Despite the grand jury indictment, Sunny Hostin (who&#8217;s friends with Lemon) proclaims &#8220;this case will be thrown out.&#8221; While not going over any of the facts of the case, Hosting declares: &#8220;[H]e was getting the story and nothing should have gotten in the way of that. He had a… <a href="https://t.co/B3uvC56BQR">pic.twitter.com/B3uvC56BQR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2018362490866860216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Hostin, also ignoring that fact that Lemon was indicted by a federal grand jury, claimed that the former CNN host was only acting as a journalist covering the protest as it unfolded — despite video appearing to show that he was privy to the plans prior to the group storming into the church while parishioners attempted to hold a worship service.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin also defended Lemon, claiming that he had acted only as a journalist.
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Whoopi seems to suggests what happened with Lemon will happen to everyone on the left: 
&#8220;Listen, what I said to you before, you see what&#8217;s happening, you know what&#8217;s happening. If it&#8217;s happening like this for someone who is out and clearly doing his job, what do you think will… <a href="https://t.co/39028c42wV">pic.twitter.com/39028c42wV</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2018364076322169131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg hit the panic button, however, and fretted about how easy it might be for the Justice Department to arrest anyone if Lemon was fair game.
&#8220;Listen, what I said to you before, you see what&#8217;s happening, you know what&#8217;s happening. If it&#8217;s happening like this for someone who is out and clearly doing his job, what do you think will happen to us?&#8221;
Since the protest just over a week earlier, several disturbing reports have come out detailing the behavior of the protesters — who reportedly harassed and terrified members of the congregation — while inside the church.

Day Two Of The 2024 Democratic National Convention

Ana Navarro Says Trump Admin Cooked The Books On Don Lemon Arrest

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Joy Behar complained on Tuesday that it was time to &#8220;do something&#8221; about President Donald Trump — and she argued that just getting out in the streets to protest and even voting were not cutting it anymore.
Behar claimed that it was time for Trump to go, saying that Americans were just going to have to &#8220;step up&#8221; and make that happen, although she was largely unclear as to how that would work, logistically speaking.
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&#8220;I think this is the end of it now for [President Trump]. It has to be. And Americans need to step up now. It&#8217;s not enough to go into the streets. It&#8217;s not enough to vote,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I believe that people need to start calling their congressmen and their Senators.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, he has eroded civil rights at this point, he&#8217;s erasing history &#8230; he&#8217;s wrecking the economy, it&#8217;ll be decades before we get back to where we&#8217;re supposed to be, and he&#8217;s alienating us from our friends in NATO,&#8221; Behar claimed, as the cohosts voiced their agreement. &#8220;And all because he&#8217;s not getting his award.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, the shrinks call that a narcissistic injury,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;And that is what will get us into World War III because his ego is involved. And the only thing that Americans can do, including us, I mean, we have a forum here and we speak out.&#8221;
Behar went on to claim that people loved &#8220;The View&#8221; for exactly that reason — and she called on the audience to call their representatives and say, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to do something about this guy, because he&#8217;s leading us into World War III.&#8221;
Sunny Hostin followed Behar, claiming that Trump was only after Greenland because he wanted the rare earth minerals — and that people should take him seriously when he postured about taking the island nation by force.
Behar interrupted then, claiming that she blamed Congress because she believed the president was not well and held them responsible for failing to do something about it. The 25th Amendment was mentioned, but as Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out, that would have to come from the president&#8217;s own cabinet.

Joy Behar Says It’s Time To ‘Do Something About Trump,’ Complains Protests And Voting Aren’t Enough

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Whoopi Goldberg immediately backpedaled after claiming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were &#8220;violent criminals,&#8221; saying that she was using &#8220;nuance&#8221; when she made that particular statement.
Goldberg joined her cohosts on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; where they discussed the fatal confrontation between anti-ICE activist Renee Good and the ICE agent who shot and killed her when she accelerated toward him, striking him with her vehicle. Goldberg&#8217;s overall assessment of the situation was that ICE agents were more violent than the people they were apprehending in major cities like Minneapolis.
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After calling all ICE agents &#8220;violent criminals&#8221; before the commercial break, Whoopi comes back and claims that&#8217;s not what she did and whines about people calling her out: 
&#8220;Welcome back. Before we go on, I &#8212; before folks gather around and say, &#8216;oh, she&#8217;s accusing all of the… <a href="https://t.co/eCQK46pPPl">pic.twitter.com/eCQK46pPPl</a>
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Goldberg began by complaining that the Department of Homeland Security had promised to pick up the worst of the worst and the most “violent criminals” — and reports detailing who ICE agents have arrested since the surge in Minneapolis began indicate they have followed through on that promise.
But Goldberg disagreed with DHS and said that, as far as she was concerned, it appeared that the “violent criminals” were inside ICE.
“This is the thing, you said you were going after the bad guys. That&#8217;s what you said, the violent criminals. And what does it turn out? The violent criminals seem to be in the agency,” she said.
The show cut to a commercial break then, and by the time they returned to air, she was already trying to un-ring the bell.
“Welcome back. Before we go on, I — before folks gather around and say, &#8216;oh, she&#8217;s accusing all of the folks at ICE of being criminals,’ that is not what I&#8217;m doing. And just so I&#8217;m clear, it feels sometimes that there is no one watching the henhouse. Okay? So before y&#8217;all start blowing it into all kinds of other stuff, just know that it&#8217;s nuance speaking,” she said.

Whoopi Claims ICE Agents Are Violent Criminals, Then Scrambles To Backpedal: ‘It’s Nuance Speaking’

Whoopi Claims ICE Agents Are Violent Criminals, Then Scrambles To Backpedal: 'It's Nuance Speaking'

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Jenny McCarthy gave a definitive answer to the question of whether she’d consider returning to her spot on “The View.”
The 53-year-old celebrity was a co-host of the show from 2013 to 2014 during season 17. She discussed that experience, as well as her current feelings about the show, on a Tuesday episode of  “The Katie Miller Podcast.”
&#8220;The reason why they wanted to bring me on [originally] is because they, quote, said it was too polarizing. They thought it was too polarizing back then, you guys,&#8221; McCarthy told the podcast host. She said her inclusion was meant to add “light and fluffy and fun” content to balance out more serious topics.
&#8220;Well, that lasted a week. That lasted a whole week,&#8221; McCarthy continued. &#8220;And back then, I didn&#8217;t consider myself to be a political person, which is why I thought I was perfect for the job. After a week, when they said they wanted to get political, I was like, &#8216;Oh my God, what am I going to do?'&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re like, &#8216;Today we’re going to be discussing the hostage situation and whether the United States government should pay the ransom or not. And I was like, &#8216;What?'&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I just know who won Dancing with the Stars.&#8217; So getting through that year was really difficult.&#8221;
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The “Masked Singer” judge said that she is &#8220;much more political in terms of having opinions&#8221; now than she was back then, adding that &#8220;our latest administration has helped so much.&#8221; 
&#8220;But, back then? Ooh, I would not, I would never even,&#8221; McCarthy added. &#8220;They’ve asked me to come back for, like, reunion shows. I was like, over my dead body would I ever step foot in that place.&#8221;
The celeb also said Hollywood gets “everything wrong” about “real America,” pointing to Bill Maher as someone who isn’t afraid to pop the “woke bubble” that Hollywood elites exist inside.
McCarthy, a huge supporter of the MAHA movement, is extremely skeptical of vaccines and supports HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “There are more conservatives than you would know hiding out in Hollywood,” she <a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jenny-mccarthy-hollywood-conservatives-hiding-maha-1236612761/">said</a> in December.

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‘Over My Dead Body’: Jenny McCarthy Says She Will Never Return To ‘The View’

Jenny McCarthy Says She'd Never Return To 'The View': 'Over My Dead Body'

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Whoopi Goldberg practically begged a foreign power — any foreign power — to come in and extradite President Donald Trump, complaining on Wednesday that the United States does not &#8220;have a government&#8221; with him in the White House.
Goldberg raised the issue on Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; on ABC, where she and her cohosts were continuing their discussion of the Trump administration&#8217;s weekend actions in Venezuela, including the arrest and extradition of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Cohost Sara Haines suggested that Trump&#8217;s voters were not educated enough to understand &#8220;the chess game of the geopolitics&#8221; and didn&#8217;t actually vote for what was happening — and claimed again that Trump&#8217;s actions were &#8220;illegal.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Whoopi Goldberg claims America doesn&#8217;t have a government and wants NATO to intervene to save America from Trump and &#8220;get him out&#8221;:
&#8220;Where is everybody? Where is everybody else? We come to everybody&#8217;s aid. We help everybody. NATO, they came and helped us after 9/11. Where is… <a href="https://t.co/SR1xmL2lU6">pic.twitter.com/SR1xmL2lU6</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2008938420920316276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg then suggested that because she also agreed Trump&#8217;s actions had been &#8220;illegal,&#8221; maybe it was time for some other foreign power — and she did not specify which — should look at the United States and consider intervening.
&#8220;Let me just say this,&#8221; Goldberg began. &#8220;Here&#8217;s my question: Where is everybody? Where is everybody else? We come to everybody&#8217;s aid. We help everybody. NATO, they came and helped us after 9/11. Where is everybody? Because we&#8217;re all — But where is the government? Do you realize we don&#8217;t have a government?! We don&#8217;t have a — and this is a huge, and should be, our biggest b*tch right now. That should be — because all of this is happening because no one is doing checks and balances.&#8221;
&#8220;Where is the government? Why aren&#8217;t they doing their job?&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;He hinted yesterday that maybe there won&#8217;t be any midterms. He said he was joking &#8230; This is — we&#8217;re in it already &#8230; We really need to be paying attention to who we&#8217;ve given power to.&#8221;

‘Where Is Everybody?’ Whoopi Practically Begs Any Foreign Power To Extradite Trump

'Where Is Everybody?' Whoopi Practically Begs Any Foreign Power To Extradite Trump

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) made a direct comparison between President Donald Trump and the recently-extradited Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, saying that both had attempted to seize &#8220;illegitimate&#8221; power, but that Maduro had been &#8220;successful.&#8221;
Crockett made the <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2008587925471023456">comments</a> during a Tuesday appearance on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; where she claimed that the Trump administration&#8217;s move to arrest and extradite Maduro had been &#8220;illegal&#8221; and claimed the president did not care about what happened to the Venezuelan people.
&#8220;When he went in to get Maduro, he killed even more Venezuelans – this ain&#8217;t about Venezuelans! I get that there are people that don&#8217;t like the leader. But guess what, there are a lot of people that don&#8217;t like our leader! And — and — regardless, somebody coming into the United States and grabbing our leader in the middle of the night and killing people in this country, I&#8217;m sure everybody would be outraged at them doing it that way.&#8221;
&#8220;But nobody stops [Trump],&#8221; Joy Behar complained.
&#8220;I&#8217;m trying, Joy,&#8221; Crockett said.
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Crockett doubles down and says Trump wants to be the Maduro of the United States: 
&#8220;Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6th, I do want to be clear, somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to… <a href="https://t.co/zQHjBICTkg">pic.twitter.com/zQHjBICTkg</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2008588619074658433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I do want to just say this,&#8221; Crockett continued. &#8220;Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6th, I do want to be clear, somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful.&#8221;
Crockett then claimed that Trump&#8217;s support of redistricting in states like Texas — where duly-elected representatives of the people had voted to adopt new maps — was concrete proof that the president &#8220;doesn&#8217;t believe in free and fair elections.&#8221;

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