Whoopi Goldberg claimed on Thursday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to give monetary bonuses to members of the military was effectively a bribe to ensure that they&#8217;d obey the president&#8217;s orders even if they were not necessarily lawful.
Goldberg, during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; first questioned whether or not troops would actually ever see that money — and then immediately insinuated that if they did see it, it would be solely because Trump was using it to buy their loyalty.
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Whoopi doubts Trump is going to pay the troops his announced $1,776 bonus, but then claims it&#8217;s a bribe for them to back his plots: 
&#8220;What he&#8217;s doing is, he&#8217;s thinking, &#8216;if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need they&#8217;ll back me and what I want, see?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/DBmKx6IfEN">pic.twitter.com/DBmKx6IfEN</a>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin began by saying she&#8217;d actually like to give Trump credit for offering bonuses — &#8220;warrior dividends&#8221; — to troops, but Goldberg quickly interrupted.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s see if they get the — I want to see them get it first,&#8221; Goldberg said.
Griffin went on to say that she&#8217;d prefer to see &#8220;smart policies&#8221; rather than &#8220;handouts,&#8221; and argued that it was unfair for money to only go to members of the military — particularly if the money was, as Trump said, coming from tariff revenue — that all Americans were hurting and in need of assistance.
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Goldberg then pivoted to suggest that the reason Trump was singling out members of the armed forces had nothing to do with the notion that they&#8217;d earned it in service to the country, but rather because she believed they&#8217;d be more likely to do anything Trump wanted if he greased the wheels with a Christmas bonus.
&#8220;What he&#8217;s doing is, he&#8217;s thinking, &#8216;If I make sure that the soldiers have what they need, they&#8217;ll back me in what I want, see?'&#8221; she said.

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One of the dumbest things we can do is flatten all ideologies and pretend all human beings think the same way.
Every time someone does this, you end up with the worst possible policy.
If you say, for example, all human beings have a yearning in their human heart for freedom in the same exact way, that can very easily lead you to the policies pursued by the George W. Bush administration, in which the president declared that the goal of the United States was to end tyranny on planet Earth.
Of course, that is not a sustainable goal, because it assumes that everyone has the same priorities that you have.
In the same way, when you suggest that all acts of violence are equivalent, when you abstract terrible things happening to the level of the general, when you say, “Okay, there&#8217;s a specific terror act directed at whites or Jews or blacks” — instead of looking at the specific cause that is being pursued, instead of looking at the specific ideological matrix used to justify and foment violence, you simply say “Violence is bad, and all human beings should just know that violence is bad,” you are preventing the actual solutions to those problems.
That’s because if you refuse to face up to the fact that certain ideas are worse than other ideas, certain cultures are worse than other cultures, certain ideological frameworks are worse than other ideological frameworks, you&#8217;re missing the motivating factor in human action.
Instead, what you end up with is a blunderbuss foreign policy that differentially strikes groups in an unfair and stupid way. 
The other day, Sunny Hostin of The View did a signal version of this. She was commenting on the mass shooting in Bondi Beach in Sydney against Jews by two Islamists.
Here is what she had to say:
<blockquote>I used to think that gun violence was just an American phenomenon. And now we see this sort of anti-Semitic attack in Australia on the first day of Hanukkah, which is so disgusting and disturbing. And then, you know, kids going to college at Brown in the middle of finals getting murdered. What those families went through? Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world? </blockquote>
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The View is a purveyor of hate. Now, after the tragic weekend, they wonder why there&#8217;s so much hate. 
&#8220;Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world? Not just in this country,&#8221; Sunny Hostin, one of the most hate-fueled people on TV. <a href="https://t.co/ox73cTuPq6">pic.twitter.com/ox73cTuPq6</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2000599580283420709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world?” That’s fine on the level of a two-year-old.
But let&#8217;s be very clear. Different ideological groups commit different types of crimes. Some commit no crimes. Some actually promote peace. Some ideologies promote vast terror attacks, such as radical Islamism.
But when you reduce everything to “It&#8217;s just an act of violence,” or to the tool, such as a gun; when you look at the Brown University shooting, where we still don&#8217;t know the motive, and then you look at what happened in Sydney, Australia, where you absolutely know the motive and you flatten that out and pretend they are both the same, you&#8217;re preventing the implementation of policies that would actually prevent shootings.
That’s because there actually are ways to target radical Islam in, for example, Sydney, Australia: Don&#8217;t import more radical Muslims. Surveil radical mosques. Create a better security apparatus. Have a government that does not grant credibility to radical Islamists and their arguments.
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There are many ways to fight particular ideologies or particular ideas.
But when you flatten that all out to the idea that it&#8217;s all just “gun violence,” you are preventing a solution.
That is often the core of the debate between the Right and the Left, the traditional Right and Left.
I always have to clarify this because there are people who exist on the so-called political Right who are not in any real way conservative; they just don&#8217;t like some of the elements of the Left.
But traditional conservative thinking suggests that human beings are motivated by the ideas and ideologies they carry, and also that human beings are deeply flawed. They&#8217;re not inherently good; human beings have the capacity for greatness and also the capacity for sin.
All of this is embedded in Federalist 51, in which James Madison argues that if human beings were angels, you wouldn&#8217;t need a government in order to govern them because they would be angels.
Once you recognize the reality of human flaws and nature, once you recognize that people change their behavior based on the ideologies that they hold, then it makes it possible to look at the outgrowth of particular ideologies and then fight those ideas.
Otherwise, what you end up with is a very bad and stupid public policy.

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The newest episode of Taylor Sheridan’s show “Landman” includes a dig mocking “The View,” which is getting a lot of attention on social media.
During Episode 5 of the second season, which is titled “The Pirate Dinner,” Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) suggests that his father, T.L. (Sam Elliott), should waste time at home by watching a TV show. Tommy suggests “The View” as an option of what to put on.
T.L. responds that he’s not familiar with the program, prompting Tommy to give a brief synopsis.
“A bunch of p****ed-off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their a** about. It’s pretty funny,” he says.
T.L. responds, “Don’t sound funny.”
“Well, it ain’t joke funny, it’s like ‘fart in church’ funny, you know what I mean?” Tommy answers.
T.L. replies, “That don’t sound funny, either,” to which Tommy quips, “Well, it depends on your proximity to the fart.”
Some commenters noted it was an interesting scene because “Landman” doesn’t usually include references to real-life pop culture. They also pointed out how Thornton was on “The View” in 2024 to promote the series.
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“The world is healing,” one response <a href="https://x.com/Variety/status/2000285952544325992">said</a>.
“Couldn’t have put it better,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/WilliCaroline/status/2000315650074726541">agreed</a>.
“Think he summed it up pretty well,” <a href="https://x.com/Variety/status/2000285952544325992">echoed</a> a third.
The Paramount Plus show “Landman” follows Tommy, a crisis manager in West Texas, as he navigates the world of the oil and gas industry and the conflicts that arise from it. Sheridan is great at making hit shows, as evidenced in part by the enormously popular “Yellowstone” and subsequent spinoffs.
While plenty of fans attempted to prove “Yellowstone” promoted conservative values, Sheridan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-laughs-at-the-idea-of-series-being-a-red-state-show">pushed back</a>, saying that was never his intention.
“They refer to it as ‘the conservative show’ or ‘the Republican show’ or ‘the red-state Game of Thrones,’ ” Sheridan said of “Yellowstone” in 2022.
“And I just sit back laughing. I’m like, ‘Really?’ The show’s talking about the displacement of Native Americans and the way Native American women were treated and about corporate greed and the gentrification of the West, and land-grabbing. That’s a red-state show?”

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Whoopi Goldberg claimed on Monday that if any American service members were charged with &#8220;war crimes&#8221; in relation to drug boat strikes, it would be because War Secretary Pete Hegseth had &#8220;set them up&#8221; to take the fall.
Goldberg and her cohosts on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; insisted that the strikes were illegal and argued that in ordering them, Secretary Hegseth was putting the service members who executed those orders at risk of prosecution.
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The View wants American service members put in prison.
Admitting their speaking about something they&#8217;re totally ignorant about, The View accuses War Secretary Pete Hegseth of a setting up soldiers to be charged for war crimes:
SUNNY HOSTIN: I can&#8217;t speak to the law of it, I&#8217;m… <a href="https://t.co/Ocvbb6Mes2">pic.twitter.com/Ocvbb6Mes2</a>
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&#8220;I can&#8217;t speak to the law of it, I&#8217;m not a geopolitical expert, but in terms of the law of it, you&#8217;re right, Sara, that is why those Army vets explained do not follow — you do not have to follow illegal orders,&#8221; Sunny Hostin said.
&#8220;You know why? Because if this is deemed to have been war crimes, which by all accounts right now there are seven sources that said Pete Hegseth did say &#8216;kill them all,&#8217; even after there were two survivors,&#8221; Hostin continued. &#8220;What you are supposed to do under international law, you are supposed to take those fighters as war criminals, prisoners of war, and you are supposed to give them refuge and you&#8217;re supposed to take care of them and then you are supposed to put them into a court of law. Instead, they killed them.&#8221;
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Hostin went on to say that there could be legal consequences for those who gave the orders and for those who carried them out.
&#8220;That means the person who gave the order can be held accountable and put in prison, and that means the person that conducted — the people who conducted the orders, that pulled the trigger are also responsible and can be held accountable,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, now you have people that are serving their countries, that are serving this country as patriots, perhaps following an illegal order and then themselves can be court-martialed. Imagine that.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, what he has done is he&#8217;s set them up,&#8221; Goldberg declared. &#8220;He has set them up.&#8221;
Hostin echoed comments made on Sunday by Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mark-kelly-encourages-active-military-to-question-orders-in-real-time">Mark Kelly</a> (D-AZ), who told &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker that he worried some service members would only learn that they had carried out illegal orders after the fact, when it was too late for them to do anything about it.

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Sunny Hostin spent part of Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; scolding Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) for voting with Republicans to bring the longest government shutdown in history to an end — and he pushed right back.
Hostin&#8217;s cohosts — most of whom have been pushing for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer&#8217;s (D-NY) ouster since he &#8220;caved&#8221; and voted to avert the last potential government shutdown in March — began by pressing Fetterman on whether or not he believed Schumer was still the right person to lead the Senate under the current circumstances.
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&#8220;Senator Bernie Sanders said the vote was a horrific mistake. Governor Gavin Newsom called it pathetic and a surrender. Poll after poll found… <a href="https://t.co/nqI0soObtR">pic.twitter.com/nqI0soObtR</a>
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&#8220;Senator Bernie Sanders said the vote was a horrific mistake. Governor Gavin Newsom called it pathetic and a surrender. Poll after poll found Americans on both sides of the aisle blaming Republicans,&#8221; Hostin said. &#8220;Even Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed the GOP. As you mentioned, Democrats had big wins last week, so you had momentum. Why give in now? Why bring a butter knife to a gun fight?!&#8221;
Hostin went on to argue that Fetterman was taking a major risk in trusting Republicans to follow through on promises to hold a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies and deliver back pay to furloughed federal workers, saying, &#8220;I believe you are wrong!&#8221;
&#8220;Well, first of all, MTG is quite literally the last person in America that I’m going to take advice [from] or to get their kinds of leadership and values from,&#8221; Fetterman shot back.
He went on to note that he had voted to keep the government open from the start, largely because he knew how a shutdown would impact people in his home state.
&#8220;I promise you, this isn’t a political game. It is viewed [that way] by many of us, but the reality is, 42 million Americans now [are] not sure where their next meal is going to come from because we vote like that. Or people that haven’t been paid for five weeks now and that kinds of chaos. Those kinds of workers have to borrow more than half a billion dollars from their credit union just to pay the bills,&#8221; he said.

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Sunny Hostin used her time on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; to blame Republicans for the government shutdown — which was caused by Democrats who refused to vote for a clean Continuing Resolution (CR) — and trash Democrats for voting to reopen the government.
Hostin joined her cohosts on the ABC midday talk show, where she complained about the fact that eight Democrats had voted to reopen the government and called for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to be replaced as a party leader.
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg, earlier in the conversation, conceded that Democrats were using the shutdown to force Republicans into submission — but she also admitted that it had not worked. She then attempted to stir up panic by claiming that people who were due back pay when the shutdown officially ends might not get it.
&#8220;So surprise me and show me that this is really that people are going to get their money. That people are going to get the money that they are entitled to,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Federal workers and reinstate snap benefits but a 50-50 chance of extending the subsidies, I don&#8217;t believe it.&#8221;
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Desperate to cling to a narrative that was just shattered, Sunny Hostin is still insisting that Republicans were the ones who shut down the government and RAGES at Democrats for giving in:
&#8220;This was a choice by Republicans to cut SNAP benefits! This was a choice by Republicans… <a href="https://t.co/q3DtEjLOKd">pic.twitter.com/q3DtEjLOKd</a>
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Hostin followed that by dismissing the facts outright and replacing them with her own personal assessment of the way things had gone down.
&#8220;Look, let&#8217;s be clear. Republicans run the House, the Republicans run the Senate, the Republicans run the White House, the Republicans run the Supreme Court as far as I&#8217;m concerned,&#8221; Hostin said, failing to note that to pass the Senate, Republicans needed 60 votes and could not get that without Democrats. &#8220;This was a choice by Republicans to cut SNAP benefits! This was a choice by Republicans to cut ACA subsidies! This was a choice by the Republicans to gut the federal government and federal employment! Democrats had nothing to do with it! I want an opposition party! I think the Democrats caved! I think the Democrats let down the American people!&#8221;
&#8220;So, the bottom line is the Democrats went into this after a blue wave, the American people saying we do want the opposition. The working people want the Democratic Party to fight for them. And now they just caved and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer, his days are over. If he cannot keep his caucus together, he needs to go! He needs to be replaced!&#8221; she complained.

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Cheryl Hines is calling out the hosts of “The View” for using her entire time on the show to ask about her husband, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., rather than to discuss her life or ask about her book.
The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress shared her thoughts during a Tuesday episode of Billy Bush’s “Hot Mics” podcast.
&#8220;Were they what you expected? The women of ‘The View?’&#8221; Bush asked Hines, prompting her to say, &#8220;Mhmm&#8221; with tight smile.
“You know, I was actually hoping that it was going to be more personal on ‘The View,’ but it was what it was. They just wanted to grill me about Bobby,” Hines continued. “I mean, I don’t think the ladies on ‘The View’ asked me one question about my book. But, you know, that’s OK.”
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Hines had initially joined the host of “The View” to promote her memoir, “Cheryl Hines Unscripted,” but host Sunny Hostin used the time to criticize comments RFK Jr. made and policies he promoted.
“Respectfully, your husband is the least qualified Department of Health and Human Services head that we’ve had in history. I think that’s very, very dangerous,” Hostin opened with. 
“Why is he less qualified than an economist? How is that possible?” Hines replied, referencing former President Barack Obama’s choice for the position, economist Sylvia Burwell.
“I think he is less qualified,” Hostin insisted, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sunny-hostin-scolds-rfk-jrs-wife-during-heated-segment-your-husband-is-the-least-qualified?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Sunny+Hostin+Scolds+RFK+Jr%E2%80%99s+Wife+During+Heated+Segment%3A+%E2%80%98Your+Husband+Is+The+Least+Qualified%E2%80%99">reported</a>.
“He has spent his career studying toxins, studying people’s health, fighting for one guy who was using Roundup for his job,” Hines defended her husband.
“He has also spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion. And I think it’s just a very dangerous thing,” Hostin said before claiming, “I say it with the utmost respect.”
“Some of it’s good and some of it is not. That’s the point,” Joy Behar interrupted.
“Listen, we all have different views here. Yes. And when you say misinformation, disinformation, we could go back to COVID when —” Hines said. 
“He’s connecting circumcision to autism,” Hostin interrupted.
“May I finish?” Hines asked.
“Please,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg chimed in.
“When people, Fauci, people were saying when you get the vaccine, you cannot transmit COVID, it will stop COVID. And that was disinformation, misinformation,” Hines reminded the panelists.
At the end of the interview, Goldberg said it was important to have guests with different viewpoints and invited Hines to come back. 
“We don’t often get people on this show who we can ask these questions to, and I appreciate that you came on,” Goldberg said. “Because you know what, if we can have the discussion back and forth, it then becomes people’s — then they can decide what they believe, and they don’t just hear one side.”

Cheryl Hines

Cheryl Hines Unloads On ‘The View’ Hosts: They ‘Just Wanted to Grill Me’ On RFK Jr.

Cheryl Hines Unloads On 'The View' Hosts: They 'Just Wanted to Grill Me' On RFK Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

After months of defending former President Joe Biden from criticisms — about his age, frailty, and obvious cognitive impairment — &#8220;The View&#8221; host Ana Navarro tore into President Donald Trump and claimed that he was beginning to show his age.
Navarro, a self-described Republican who supported Biden and even spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, weighed in on a conversation with her cohosts about whether or not Trump would attempt to run for a third term as President of the United States.
Sunny Hostin claimed that Trump was clearly laying the groundwork to make himself a dictator for life, arguing that he would not be renovating anything at the White House — like so many previous presidents have — unless he planned to refuse to vacate the residence at the end of his term.
&#8220;I have come to the conclusion that he is most definitely going to try to remain in power, because remember, that East Wing, it&#8217;s going to take a long time to build that. He is hooking up the White House because he doesn&#8217;t plan on leaving it! I don&#8217;t think he plans on leaving!&#8221; she insisted.
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Ana Navarro who defended Biden&#8217;s cognitive now has an issue with Trump&#8217;s hands and ankles. 
She also claims Trump &#8220;has got authoritarian envy&#8221; because &#8220;he wants to be an emperor, he wants to be an authoritarian.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/hga3blAwfn">pic.twitter.com/hga3blAwfn</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1982837902749892793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Navarro followed that by agreeing, &#8220;He wants to be an emperor, he wants to be an authoritarian&#8221; — and then argued that he would be too old to do the job by then anyway.
&#8220;The ironic thing though, is there were a lot of people who thought Joe Biden was too old to run,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Donald Trump is already the oldest president ever elected in history, he would be 82 in 2028. We&#8217;ve all seen the swollen ankles, we&#8217;ve all seen the bruises on his hands, you know, this is a man who is showing his age and the health issues that often come along with being elderly.&#8221;
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Trump, who has previously hinted at the possibility of running for a third term, told NBC News anchor Kristen Welker in early May that he would not do so. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be an eight-year president, I&#8217;ll be a two-term president. I always thought that was very important,&#8221; he said.

Day Two Of The 2024 Democratic National Convention

‘Republican’ Who Defended Biden And Spoke At DNC Says Trump ‘Showing His Age’

'Republican' Who Defended Biden And Spoke At DNC Says Trump Is 'Showing His Age'

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Joe Biden

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attempted to tie President Abraham Lincoln — America&#8217;s first Republican president — to Democratic socialism based on one line from his famed Gettysburg Address.
Sanders joined the hosts of ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; where the cohosts pressed him on everything from the ongoing government shutdown to his recent campaign stops with New York City&#8217;s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist.
Cohost Sara Haines asked about the shutdown, and Sanders brushed off the idea of a standalone vote on Affordable Care Act subsidies — one of the main sticking points for Democrats as the shutdown drags on — despite a promise from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to hold such a vote.
Sanders claimed that he wanted to end the shutdown &#8220;tomorrow,&#8221; but that he couldn&#8217;t vote to reopen the government as long as Republicans refused to undo the parts of the Big Beautiful Bill that he didn&#8217;t like.
&#8220;50,000 people will die unnecessarily every single year,&#8221; Sanders insisted, waving his hands to punctuate his point. &#8220;50,000 of our fellow Americans.&#8221;
He then claimed that Trump and Republicans were taking away health insurance from the poor in order to &#8220;pay for&#8221; a tax break for the wealthy.
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Sunny Hostin praises Sanders for campaigning far-left extremist Zohran Mamdani and tees him up to call on Democrats to move further to the left:
&#8220;Senator, you&#8217;ve been campaigning with the front-runner in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race: democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. He&#8217;s… <a href="https://t.co/YvTduTORrg">pic.twitter.com/YvTduTORrg</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1980301961707544997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin pivoted to ask about Mamdani, saying, &#8220;Senator, you&#8217;ve been campaigning with the front-runner in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race: Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani. He&#8217;s leading by double digits. He probably will be the next mayor of New York. Now, a recent Gallup poll showed that over half of Democratic voters prefer socialist aligned figures like yourself, like AOC, like Mamdani, to more establishment, centrist politicians. Is this the direction the Democratic Party needs to go?&#8221;
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&#8220;You know what? People are saying here&#8217;s a radical idea,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;This is what Democratic Socialism basically means: let&#8217;s have a government that works for all the people, not just the billionaire class. Let&#8217;s end a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires in both political parties to determine who wins elections.&#8221;
Sanders concluded by suggesting that Lincoln was actually talking about the same goal when he gave the Gettysburg Address: &#8220;Let&#8217;s try to create the kind of democracy that Lincoln talked about way back when, when he said &#8216;a government of the people, by the people, for the people.'&#8221;

Senate Holds Confirmation Hearings For HHS Secretary Nominee Robert Kennedy

Bernie Sanders Suggests Abraham Lincoln Was Actually A Democratic Socialist

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Bernie Sanders

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Zohran Mamdani

&#8220;The View&#8221; host Sunny Hostin used some of her time during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast to scold guest Cheryl Hines about how &#8220;unqualified&#8221; her husband — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — is for the job he holds in President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration.
Hines had initially joined the ABC midday program to promote her own memoir, &#8220;Cheryl Hines Unscripted,&#8221; but Hostin quickly dropped all pretense as she unloaded on Hines, criticizing comments made and policies promoted by her husband.
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Cheryl Hines put Sunny Hostin in her place on The View after she attacked her husband RFK Jr.
Hostin used her airtime to smear Kennedy, claiming he was spreading “misinformation”, but Hines exposed how those labels were weaponized against him, even when he was right.
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&#8220;Respectfully, your husband is the least qualified Department of Health and Human Services head that we’ve had in history. I think that’s very, very dangerous,&#8221; Hostin came out of the gate swinging.
&#8220;Why is he less qualified than an economist? How is that possible?&#8221; Hines referenced former President Barack Obama&#8217;s choice for that post, economist Sylvia Burwell.
&#8220;I think he is less qualified,&#8221; Hostin protested.
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&#8220;He has spent his career studying toxins, studying people’s health, fighting for one guy who was using Roundup for his job,&#8221; Hines defended her husband.
&#8220;He has also spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion. And I think it’s just a very dangerous thing,&#8221; Hostin said before claiming, &#8220;I say it with the utmost respect.&#8221;
&#8220;Some of it’s good and some of it is not. That’s the point,&#8221; Joy Behar interrupted.
&#8220;Listen, we all have different views here. Yes. And when you say misinformation, disinformation, we could go back to COVID when —&#8221; Hines attempted to bring the conversation back to reality.
&#8220;He’s connecting circumcision to autism,&#8221; Hostin interrupted.
&#8220;May I finish?&#8221; Hines asked.
&#8220;Please,&#8221; cohost Whoopi Goldberg encouraged Hines to continue.
&#8220;When people, Fauci, people were saying when you get the vaccine, you cannot transmit COVID, it will stop COVID. And that was disinformation, misinformation,&#8221; Hines reminded them.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin attempted damage control, saying, &#8220;We were also still learning about it. It was a novel virus we’ve never encountered before. Because now the doctors will acknowledge that it can.&#8221;
&#8220;And Dr. Fauci has a medical degree,&#8221; Hostin interjected.
But Hines was not finished: &#8220;At the time, they were censoring Bobby, because Bobby said, where’s the science to show us this? And there wasn’t any. But people attacked him and said, you’re wrong. So it’s like, let’s take a step back. I know that’s your opinion, and that’s okay.&#8221;

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Sunny Hostin Scolds RFK Jr’s Wife During Heated Segment: ‘Your Husband Is The Least Qualified’

The hosts of ABC’s “The View” suggested on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was allowing the government shutdown to persist because he was afraid that if members of Congress returned from recess, they would eventually vote to release the Epstein files.
Regular host Joy Behar raised the possibility on the midday talk show, arguing that Trump and Republicans did not want to swear in Democratic Arizona Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva — who has said that she would vote to release the files — and the ongoing government shutdown gave them cover while they refused to do so.
“Well, tell them why they&#8217;re at recess – somebody — you tell them why,” Behar began.
“Why don&#8217;t you tell them, Joy?” Sunny Hostin pressed.
“Because I can&#8217;t remember the woman&#8217;s name,” Behar admitted.
“Oh, Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Hostin guessed.
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“No, not her,” Behar replied. “The one who&#8217;s – the one who will vote to expose the Epstein files — they don&#8217;t want her to be confirmed &#8230;”
“Oh, the — Arizona,” Sara Haines said. “They don&#8217;t want to swear her in, although earlier in the year they did swear in two Republicans during recess, so it can be done.”
“So you think this is all about the Epstein files?” Hostin asked.
“A lot of it, yeah,” Behar replied. “It could be the thing that brings the whole thing down.”
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ABC &#8220;News&#8221; claims that under Trump, the airports will get so bad that it will take &#8220;24 hours&#8221; to fly from Tampa to Miami. <a href="https://t.co/kbfiJFFXRb">pic.twitter.com/kbfiJFFXRb</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1978121609266208940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Behar continued to raise wild theories during the following segment, asserting that air travel was going to get much worse if the shutdown continued.
“You know what I think? The airports – everybody — everybody&#8217;s flying, everybody&#8217;s flying,” she said. “People who have a lot of money are flying, people who are middle class are flying, a lot of people are flying. And when they start sitting – when they have to go from, you know, Tampa to Miami, and it takes 24 hours, they&#8217;re not going to be happy.”

ABC’s “The View” – Season 25

‘The View’ Hosts Claim Trump Is Keeping Shutdown Going To Avoid Releasing Epstein Files

'The View' Hosts Claim Trump Is Keeping Shutdown Going To Avoid Releasing Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein

Joy Behar

When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told a room filled with top military leaders that it was time to raise their standards, “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin was “befuddled,” as she said later.
All across the country, conservatives and other normies were thrilled to finally imagine our military adhering to the standards that make us the most formidable and respected superpower in the world.
Hegseth said combat troops will be held to “the highest male standard.”
“This job is life or death,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-are-done-with-that-sht-trump-hegseth-demand-excellence-from-military-brass">emphasized</a>. “Standards must be met … it’s common sense and core to who we are and what we do.”
But liberals, they don’t understand that concept. Rather than seeing Hegseth’s speech as a call to excellence, Hostin assumed the speech indicated some sort of punishment.
“I don’t understand how that was supposed to be an uplifting message for our military,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-hosts-cant-deduce-why-military-leaders-might-need-to-be-in-top-physical-shape">said</a> on “The View.”
That reaction says it all. Progressives and conservatives aren’t just on different sides of the political spectrum. They’re often speaking entirely different languages.
For Hostin, a word like “uplifting” means constant affirmation. It means telling people they’re perfect just as they are, just like it means telling men that they can become women and that losers are really winners.
Conservatives, on the other hand, understand that real encouragement isn’t about coddling feelings. It’s about calling people to something greater. To truly uplift someone is to tell them they are capable of raising higher, getting better, and being stronger. Challenge isn’t a dirty word; it’s a call to action.
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