In a moment that recalled former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s frustrated exclamation during the Benghazi hearings, &#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at everyone who has been questioning former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive and physical fitness for the job he held until January 20.
&#8220;Why is this important to know now?&#8221; she demanded to know during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast — the same day that &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; the book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s obvious decline, hit bookstores everywhere.
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Whoopi decries the American people learning Democrats lied to them about Biden&#8217;s health: 
&#8220;Why is this important to know now?!&#8221; 
Joy Behar tries to distract from the fact she and the cast took part in the coverup by manically ranting about &#8220;Trump&#8217;s atrocities.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/VLhiOV2Oa7">pic.twitter.com/VLhiOV2Oa7</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924847259490943363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Golberg began by attacking the authors&#8217; reliance on &#8220;anonymous sources&#8221; to write the book — and wondered why those people, if they were willing to provide such damning information after the fact, had not been willing to speak up earlier.
&#8220;But my question is, why is this important to know now?&#8221; Goldberg asked — sounding much like Clinton, who during the Benghazi hearings had asked, &#8220;What difference, at this point, does it make?&#8221;
&#8220;It just seems to me, you know, we got a lot of stuff to be concerned about at the moment,&#8221; she continued, suggesting that it no longer mattered that Biden&#8217;s decline was hidden from the American people even thought many of the people responsible for hiding it were still in positions of influence and power.
Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back on the rest of her cohosts, saying that if they wanted to claim they were supportive of a free press, they couldn&#8217;t attack the press when it reported things they didn&#8217;t like.
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Sara Haines actually acknowledges the audio of Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden where he forgets major moments of his life. 
Whoopi defends, arguing that sure he&#8217;s &#8220;83 and &#8220;a little stumbly, a little rumbly&#8221; but &#8220;I can&#8217;t point to anything that he&#8217;s done as president [that&#8217;s evidence of… <a href="https://t.co/mkLQ6aa8j0">pic.twitter.com/mkLQ6aa8j0</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924853941956673744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines mentioned the recently-released audio from former Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden, acknowledging how damaging that was to Biden — but Goldberg pushed back and dismissed Biden&#8217;s failure to recall important events as him being just &#8220;a little stumble, a little rumbly.&#8221;

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

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

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

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; joined a number of other media personalities in claiming that President Donald Trump was only allowing 59 Afrikaners to claim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spare-me-scott-jennings-scorches-dems-for-sudden-about-face-on-refugees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refugee status</a> because they are white — while also claiming that because the Afrikaners are white, they are not &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221;
Sunny Hostin addressed the issue during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast, complaining that the Trump administration had limited refugee status for Afghans and Haitians, to whom she referred as &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221; Hostin also took a swing at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying she found it to be an &#8220;insult&#8221; that the former South Dakota Governor holds that position.
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Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin denouncing President Trump granting refugee status to 59 white South Africans. She demands the status for Haitians, who are &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221; 
JOY BEHAR: They&#8217;re not white people. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want them here. 
SUNNY HOSTIN: She said it, I… <a href="https://t.co/3iBDrey1VO">pic.twitter.com/3iBDrey1VO</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1923052595846774839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;For me, you know, I think one thing — having Kristi Noem be in charge of Homeland Security, in and of itself, is an insult, it&#8217;s just an insult,&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;And I think something that we&#8217;re not talking about — enough about — is what Donald Trump did on Monday: the Trump administration allowed in 59 white South African refugees into this country, claiming that they were fleeing racial discrimination and land appropriation.&#8221;
Hostin went on to claim that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had disputed reports of land appropriation and racially motivated discrimination — despite the fact that Ramaphosa himself signed a bill into law in late January that allows the government to expropriate private property for reasons up to and including &#8220;to promote inclusivity and access to natural resources.&#8221;
The Afrikaners, according to Hostin, did not qualify as refugees. Instead, she referenced refugees from Afghanistan and falsely claimed that the program in place to grant protected status to Afghans &#8220;who helped us&#8221; during the war had been ended. In fact, the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghans-deportation-protections-ending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> Afghan Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program is entirely separate from the more permanent Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program exclusively for Afghans who were allies during the war.
&#8220;And so the fact that Afghan refugees — people who helped us during the Afghanistan war — who helped us and protected our troops, that program has been dismissed. The fact that Haitians that are truly refugees, they have been denied protected status.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re not white people. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want them here,&#8221; cohost Joy Behar suggested.
&#8220;She said it, I didn&#8217;t,&#8221; Hostin agreed.

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

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

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; complained about President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Americans — but as Whoopi Goldberg laid out her objections, it appeared as though her main objection was the fact that Trump was doing what Democrats had not been able to do thus far.
Goldberg started off the conversation during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast by asserting that Trump&#8217;s plan was bad because he had not yet specified which drugs he was talking about, nor had he explained which health insurance plans might be impacted by any new policies.
&#8220;Well, again, he didn&#8217;t specify which drugs he was going to target — or which insurance programs would be impacted,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;Because you see, if you&#8217;re going to lower the price of the drugs, you gotta first fix the broken insurance company,&#8221; Goldberg laughed. &#8220;Because they are — it doesn&#8217;t make any sense.&#8221;
&#8220;You know what though, I would think that you have to take money out of politics, too, because a lot of these guys in Congress, don&#8217;t they take money from pharmaceutical lobbyists?&#8221; Joy Behar asked. &#8220;I mean —&#8221;
&#8220;But there are lobbyists in other countries, too,&#8221; cohost Sara Haines pushed back.
Behar pivoted then to attack Trump&#8217;s appearance and weight, saying, &#8220;The guy has 153 rooms in the White House. He can&#8217;t have one mirror to look into? He&#8217;s always criticizing, &#8216;This one&#8217;s not a 10, this one&#8217;s a six, this one&#8217;s fat, this one&#8217;s — he said the friend is &#8216;highly neurotic.&#8217; Hello? Look in the mirror &#8230;&#8221;
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Alyssa Farah Griffin bursts their bubble by pointing out that some of their favorite progressives in Congress, Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders, have a bill that does exactly what Trump wants to do. 
Whoopi RAGES anyway and claims socialism is not socialism. <a href="https://t.co/EDA3DwcMGh">pic.twitter.com/EDA3DwcMGh</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1922322025089040541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out the fact that Trump&#8217;s plan was actually supported by some of the progressives in Congress — including Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) because some parts of it mirrored a bill they were already working on to lower drug costs.
Griffin then said that her main issue with the plan was the potential for enforcement of lowered prices, which she said veered too close to Soviet-style price controls for her tastes.
Goldberg then responded by arguing that the infusion of socialism into the health care system — the raising of taxes on everyone to make sure that the government could absorb the costs of drugs so that those who needed medication were able to afford it — was not actually socialism.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not socialism,&#8221; she insisted. &#8220;It&#8217;s best for the country if everyone can afford their health care!&#8221;

‘The View’ Panics Over Trump’s Plan To Lower Drug Costs, Mainly Because Dems Failed To Do It First

'The View' Panics Over Trump's Plan To Lower Drug Costs, Mainly Because Dems Failed To Do It First

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

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

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

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Former President Joe Biden claimed on Thursday that he could have once again bested President Donald Trump if he had not opted to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election in late July.
Biden joined the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; — with former first lady Jill Biden at his side — and the conversation turned to the 2024 campaign as the cohosts asked about his decision to exit the race and whether or not he regretted dropping out.
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Sara Haines commends Biden for his &#8220;selfless and very difficult decision&#8221; to get out of the race, but wanted to know what he thought was the reason for Harris&#8217;s defeat. 
Biden seems to blame it on Americans being sexist: &#8220;I was surprised because they went the route of the sexist… <a href="https://t.co/IRgS19rfim">pic.twitter.com/IRgS19rfim</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1920497211906970096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines praised Biden for taking the &#8220;selfless&#8221; route and stepping aside, saying that Democrats hd been shocked when former Vice President Kamala Harris had then been unable to close the deal. &#8220;It was like 2016 all over again,&#8221; she complained, and then asked Biden why he thought Harris had not been able to beat Trump.
&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t surprised, not because I didn&#8217;t think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She&#8217;s qualified to be President of the United States of America. I was surprised — I was surprised because they went the route of — the sexist route, the whole route,&#8221; Biden said, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen quite a successful and consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn&#8217;t lead the country — and a woman of mixed race.&#8221;
Biden also told Haines that he&#8217;d spoken to Harris just a day earlier, although he would not say what they discussed.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin asks if Biden still thought he could have beaten Trump. 
He does: &#8220;Yes. He still got 7 million fewer votes.&#8221; 
Biden also dismisses Trump winning all the swing states. 
He thanks The View for not focusing on poll numbers. <a href="https://t.co/eBrACmqJdR">pic.twitter.com/eBrACmqJdR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1920499382840865168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Biden — whose exit came on the heels of a disastrous televised debate with President Trump in late June — whether he believed he could have won if he had remained on the ballot through the end of the campaign, and he said that he did.
Griffin noted that Trump had won all of the battleground states and had increased his support in almost every demographic, but Biden was not deterred.
&#8220;Yes, he still got less — it wasn&#8217;t a slam dunk,&#8221; Biden claimed, suggesting that because Trump won the 2024 election with fewer votes than Biden got in 2020, he would have won if he&#8217;d stayed in the race.

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Former President Joe Biden got only one question about his obvious cognitive decline when he made an appearance on Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; — and former first lady Jill Biden had to jump in and help him with his response.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, who typically identifies herself as a Republican despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-host-of-the-view-admits-to-fawning-cohosts-she-voted-kamala" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supporting</a> former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, took the most indirect route possible to the obvious question. Rather than basing it on hours and hours of speeches and public appearance where Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doocy-corners-karine-jean-pierre-who-ordered-white-house-officials-to-cover-up-bidens-decline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cognitive abilities</a> were clearly lacking, Griffin instead framed it around the numerous books that are now being written by insiders revealing what they knew and when they knew it.
&#8220;Since you left office, there have been a number of books that have come out, deeply sourced from Democratic sources that claim in your final year there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities, in the final year of your presidency,&#8221; Griffin said. &#8220;What is your response to these allegations and are these sources wrong?&#8221;
&#8220;They are wrong. There&#8217;s nothing to sustain that, um, number one,&#8221; Biden began, before pivoting to give a rambling response that in no way addressed the point of Griffin&#8217;s question. &#8220;Number two, you know, think of what we were left with, we were left with a circumstance where we — uh — we had an insurrection? When I started, we — not since the Civil War.&#8221;
Biden then appeared to blame the pandemic — and one million dead Americans — on President Donald Trump, adding, &#8220;We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we — uh — well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, a million people dying. And we&#8217;re also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues and, uh, which I won&#8217;t go into here in the interest of time &#8230; and so we went to work and we got it done, and you know one of the things that, well, that —&#8221;
The former president appeared to lose his train of thought then, prompting Jill Biden to jump in and answer the question for him — and she tried to suggest that the authors of the books did not know what they were talking about.
&#8220;You know, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;And they didn&#8217;t see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean, he&#8217;d get up, he&#8217;d put in a full day, and then at night he&#8217;d — I&#8217;d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings, working with staff &#8230; I think he was a great president.&#8221;
She concluded with a jab at President Trump, saying, &#8220;If you look at things today, give me Joe Biden any time.&#8221;
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Farah Griffin notes that Biden was pushed out by Democratic Party insiders and donors, including personal friends. &#8220;Can I ask what your relationship is with President Obama and how you address those concerns that they raised?&#8221; 
Biden claims: &#8220;The only reason I got out of the race… <a href="https://t.co/Wtbjwp9UOY">pic.twitter.com/Wtbjwp9UOY</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1920512176164323747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Griffin pushed back lightly, noting that Biden ultimately left the 2024 presidential race after some prodding from members of his own party — including former President Barack Obama, with whom he had served as vice president for eight years.
&#8220;Can I ask what your relationship is with President Obama and how you address those concerns that they raised?&#8221; she asked.
Biden insisted that the only reason he&#8217;d left the presidential race was to avoid further division within the Democratic Party.

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Joe Biden Gets One Question About His Cognitive Decline. Jill Has To Help Him Answer It.

Whoopi Goldberg launched into a tirade against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, complaining that his recently-announced tariff on films made outside the United States amounted to an attempt to control the kind of movies that could be made.
Goldberg and her cohosts mocked Trump&#8217;s latest tariff announcement — a 100% tariff on movies made outside the United States — and kicked off the conversation by saying that Trump should deal with the egg prices (which have come down considerably since they peaked in March) before he worries about Hollywood.
&#8220;Okay, look,&#8221; Goldberg began. &#8220;You can&#8217;t do that because what that equates to is you&#8217;re going to tell me how to write the story I want to write if it happens in Europe, you&#8217;re telling me that if my book comes out and I want to write it, you&#8217;re telling me how to write it. You&#8217;re telling me you&#8217;re going to charge me for that.&#8221;
&#8220;What – you know, I — could you, look, ughhhhhh. Could you please lower the price of eggs before you start this?!&#8221; she continued.
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Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin mocks the idea of making some movie in America &#8220;Will it be Emily in Paris, Texas?&#8221; 
Sara Haines notes that Trump&#8217;s tariff threat has already caused California to want to increase incentives to film there. 
Whoopi continued to rage: &#8220;[I]f you… <a href="https://t.co/UGP6c2jMUE">pic.twitter.com/UGP6c2jMUE</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1919777666154045620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that some states were already competing to bring in filmmakers, noting that Georgia had effectively become &#8220;the Hollywood of the southeast because they make it cheaper to make movies there.&#8221; She then pivoted to mock the idea anyway, asking whether &#8220;Emily in Paris&#8221; would be remade as &#8220;Emily in Paris, Texas&#8221; — &#8220;or like &#8216;White Lotus: Mar-a-Lago Edition.&#8217; Movies will be very limited if you can only shoot here.&#8221;
Sara Haines noted that Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) had already moved to increase incentives for filmmakers to practice their craft in California, arguing that Trump&#8217;s plan could potentially bring about a positive outcome.
Goldberg pushed back, arguing that it would ultimately hurt movies if the tariff remained in place. &#8220;You can&#8217;t shoot &#8216;Gladiator&#8217; without going to Rome!&#8221;

WHOOPI GOLDBERG

‘You Can’t Do That!’: Whoopi Trashes Trump Over Hollywood Tariff, Claims He’s Controlling Movie Plots

'You Can't Do That!' Whoopi Trashes Trump Over Hollywood Tariff, Claims He's Controlling Movie Plots

Hollywood

Movies

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Actress Eva Longoria told &#8220;The View&#8221; co-hosts on Tuesday that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is &#8220;good for business&#8221; and remains a priority for her.
Co-host Joy Behar asked Longoria about her production company as DEI initiatives are being &#8220;stripped away&#8221; by President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration. The former &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; actress said DEI is both a smart business practice and a “moral” way to push back against &#8220;historical exclusion.&#8221;
&#8220;We have to remember why DEI was created and it was to correct historical exclusion which was not just about Latino or black, it&#8217;s women, it&#8217;s disabled, LGBTQ+, it&#8217;s a lot of marginalized communities that never get to tell their stories,&#8221; Longoria said.
When Behar asked why DEI was being phased out, the actress replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, because it&#8217;s bad business. It&#8217;s not just a moral imperative, like I do it because it&#8217;s morally right, I want authentic storytelling, I want the people who have lived these stories to tell them. But we are creating programming for the most diverse audience ever in the history of the world and so it&#8217;s not just a moral imperative, it&#8217;s just good business.&#8221;
Longoria concluded, &#8220;At the end of the day, I&#8217;m a businesswoman, so why wouldn&#8217;t you want to create for the growing market, not the shrinking market?&#8221;
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg chimed in, saying, &#8220;Also, you know, you can say it&#8217;s going away. We&#8217;re not going anywhere. So we&#8217;re gonna keep making the movies we wanna make and telling the stories.&#8221;
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Eva Longoria claims DEI isn&#39;t just a &quot;moral imperative&quot; but it&#39;s &quot;good business.&quot;
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Despite Longoria’s claims, DEI initiatives have led to several huge flops for the companies pushing the concept the hardest, with the latest example being Disney’s new progressive version of the 1937 animated classic “Snow White.” 
The film has so far <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6208148/">earned</a> $84.9 million domestically and $109.5 million worldwide, meaning it hasn’t recouped its estimated $410 million production and promotional budget. Disney is expected to lose about <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/snow-white-flop-much-money-075548439.html">$115 million</a> on the project. 
Several factors likely contributed to the remake’s abysmal results. First, the actress playing the film’s titular star, Rachel Zegler, is not white but of mixed heritage and part Latina. She also made controversial statements about politics and current events, including saying she hoped Trump supporters “never know peace.” She also mocked the source material for the movie she was starring in, calling Prince Charming a “stalker” and saying the new version of “Snow White” wouldn’t resemble the original. 
“We have a different approach to, what I’m sure a lot of people will assume is a love story,” Zegler said in part. “[Snow White is] not going to be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love,” she continued. “She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.”

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Eva Longoria Insists DEI Is A ‘Moral Imperative’ And ‘Just Good Business’

Eva Longoria Insists DEI Is A 'Moral Imperative' And 'Just Good Business'

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Whoopi Goldberg appeared to stun her cohosts into silence when she put a positive — even passionate — spin on President Donald Trump&#8217;s stated goal of eventually dismantling the federal Department of Education.
During Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, Goldberg — who still refuses to even say Trump&#8217;s name aloud on the air — said that getting rid of the Department of Education could be a net positive if it served as a catalyst to get more people involved and engaged at the local level to make sure kids were getting what they needed.
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&#8220;What we have to always do, regardless of who you voted for, you still got to pay your rent, you still got to take care of your kids, you still got to take care of your business,&#8221; Goldberg began, adding, &#8220;And maybe some of what&#8217;s happening, like you know, they&#8217;re trying to take apart the Department of Education —&#8221;
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; her cohosts agreed, but then Goldberg threw them a curve and they all went quiet.
&#8220;Maybe that is a good thing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Because maybe it will force us to make sure that our kids actually get what they need. Maybe it will force us to go to our states and say, &#8216;Listen, I want to make sure since you&#8217;re taking all this money from my taxes, I want to make sure that my kids get exactly what they need.'&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to wait for the government to do it, we can do it!&#8221; she declared, effectively making the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/linda-mcmahon-crashes-dem-press-conference-outside-education-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservative argument</a> for returning control of education to the states and local school boards. &#8220;This is now in our hands. This is in our hands, and it&#8217;s going to be tough and nobody wants to do it because it&#8217;s a b****, but you know what? If it comes down to your survival, this is what you gotta do, you gotta take care of what you gotta take care of.&#8221;
Her cohosts remained silent as Goldberg wrapped up her thought, then pivoted quickly to announce that producers were telling her it was time for a commercial break.

‘The View’ Hosts Shocked Into Silence As Whoopi Argues In Favor Of Trump Policy

'The View' Hosts Shocked Into Silence As Whoopi Argues In Favor Of Trump Policy

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

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

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

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Regular MSNBC guest and justice correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal claimed on Tuesday that virtually all laws passed prior to 1965 should be considered &#8220;presumptively unconstitutional.&#8221;
Mystal made the assertion during a conversation on the ABC midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; while discussing his new book, &#8220;Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America&#8221; — and he argued that any law passed prior to the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be thrown out because until that law passed, &#8220;we were an apartheid country.&#8221;
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&#8220;One of the laws you write about is playing out right now — the Immigration and Nationality Act,&#8221; cohost Sunny Hostin said. &#8220;Now, this administration is using this statute to justify the detentions and possible deportations, actually, of visa and Green-Card holders who they seek to deem a threat to U.S. foreign policy. What do you make of the administration&#8217;s use of the act, and, more broadly, is Trump really setting up a First Amendment showdown, which is what Whoopi&#8217;s been talking about?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, absolutely,&#8221; Mystal declared. &#8220;One of my premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional, right? Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived her could vote here.&#8221;
&#8220;So why should I give a **** about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s?&#8221; he asked.
Mystal followed up his appearance on &#8220;The View&#8221; with a racially-charged post on X claiming that his book &#8220;seems to have pissed off the white wing so, as usual, I&#8217;m doing something right.&#8221;
Mystal often appears on MSNBC, and even joined network host and former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele just two days prior to joining &#8220;The View.&#8221; During that appearance, he claimed that the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens and gang members amounted to &#8220;fascism.&#8221;

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Regular MSNBC Guest: All Laws Passed Before 1965 Should Be ‘Presumptively Unconstitutional’

Regular MSNBC Guest: All Laws Passed Before 1965 Should Be 'Presumptively Unconstitutional'

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