Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) landed in the hot seat when he joined the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; on Tuesday, taking heat from both sides of the political aisle over his recent vote to support the Republican-led Continuing Resolution funding the federal government through September.
Schumer had previously suggested that he was willing to fight the Trump-supported stopgap bill — even if that resulted in a government shutdown — but made an 11th-hour 180-degree turn and the measure ultimately passed. In the days since, he has received sharp criticism from other Democrats in Congress and in media who believe he &#8220;caved&#8221; — and some of the &#8220;The View&#8221; cohosts agreed.
Regular cohost Whoopi Goldberg, who voiced her displeasure during Monday&#8217;s show and had promised the audience a reckoning when Schumer arrived, began by demanding that he defend his decision to tell Democrats to vote for the CR.
&#8220;I knew it was a difficult choice and I knew that I&#8217;d get a lot of criticism for my choice but I felt as a leader I had to do it. Here&#8217;s why. The CR bill was bad, no question, and it allowed a slush fund which allowed money to be pushed around,&#8221; Schumer said, but noted that on the flip side, &#8220;If we cut off government spending. It would be devastation like we have never seen.&#8221;
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Whoopi demand Chuck Schumer explain &quot;why&quot; he told Senate Dems to vote for the CR: SCHUMER: &quot;I knew it was a difficult choice and I knew that I&#39;d get a lot of criticism for my choice but I felt as a leader I had to do it. Here&#39;s why. The CR bill was bad, no question, and it… <a href="https://t.co/Hp4oAHRp9b">pic.twitter.com/Hp4oAHRp9b</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1902021802773106995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines said that she ultimately agreed it was best to avoid a government shutdown, but she attacked Schumer on another front and argued that if only a handful of Democratic senators were willing to vote with him, that did not say much for his strength as a leader.
&#8220;We aren&#8217;t seeing a clear leader of the party,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;Because even though I agree with you with your decision and I see why, but you were only able to get nine Democrats to go with you. How is that leadership?&#8221;
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Joy Behar is up in arms at Schumer because Trump &quot;congratulated&quot; him on supporting the CR. The rest of the cast had to explain to her that Trump was trolling him. <a href="https://t.co/OryuNsqkWK">pic.twitter.com/OryuNsqkWK</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1902024990267978144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Joy Behar&#8217;s main complaint was the fact that Schumer&#8217;s actions had earned praise — however sarcastic — from President Donald Trump.
Attacking on yet another front was cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, who asked Schumer whether it might be time for him to go the way that former President Joe Biden had, and step aside for younger leaders to take the helm: &#8220;There seems to be a disconnect between the younger generation and some of the newly elected Democrats and yours. Do you believe that the party has confidence in you to continue to serve as its leader, and as somebody influential in helping Biden&#8217;s decision to step aside, do you think it might be time for you too?&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin vents at Schumer: &quot;It gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends but I think you caved. I think you you and nine other Democrats caved. I don&#39;t think you showed the fight this party needs right now because you&#39;re playing by a rule book where the… <a href="https://t.co/XfNAokRDu4">pic.twitter.com/XfNAokRDu4</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1902029861151011172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin noted that Schumer was her friend, but did not hold back in her criticism of his CR vote: &#8220;It gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends but I think you caved. I think you you and nine other Democrats caved. I don&#8217;t think you showed the fight this party needs right now because you&#8217;re playing by a rule book where the other party has thrown that rule book away.&#8221;

Senate Clears Way For GOP Spending Bill As Shutdown Threat Ebbs

‘I Think You Caved’: Schumer Gets An Absolute Grilling On ‘The View’

'I Think You Caved,' 'How Is That Leadership?': Schumer Gets An Absolute Grilling On 'The View'

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The View

Whoopi Goldberg suggested on Monday that if President Donald Trump and his administration could deport terrorists and revoke the immigration status of anti-American agitators, there was no limit to who he could ultimately deport and exile from the United States.
Goldberg made the comments during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; just a week after the Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-pro-terrorist-anti-semitic-visa-holders-will-be-removed-from-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved to strip</a> a pro-Hamas agitator of his Green Card and days after more than 250 gang members — associated with violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and MS-13 — were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/these-are-the-monsters-trump-admin-deported-over-250-gang-members-to-el-salvador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deported to a mega-prison</a> in El Salvador.
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Without evidence, ABC&#39;s News moderator Whoopi Goldberg claims Trump is about to deport anyone who says something against him: &quot;If they can just come up and take somebody because they&#39;ve made a decision that you&#39;re supposed to be that person, anyone of us could find ourselves… <a href="https://t.co/mAKOHIHRCD">pic.twitter.com/mAKOHIHRCD</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1901672782548840758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You just gotta keep your eyes open, y&#8217;all,&#8221; she warned, going on to imply that even American citizens were at risk of deportation. &#8220;Because if they can just come up and take somebody because they&#8217;ve made a decision that you&#8217;re supposed to be that person, any one of us could find ourselves being deported to some country when we&#8217;ve never been there.&#8221;
&#8220;Listen, you know, it is very clear to me that if we don&#8217;t continue to say we want — listen, I understand you want to clean out all the old, some bad stuff,&#8221; Goldberg continued, pivoting in an apparent jab at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). &#8220;I get it, but why do you now have access to my personal information? I get what the things you are trying to do, I don&#8217;t understand why you&#8217;re taking my stuff. My personal — not mine personally, but each and every one of you! And your Constitutional right to free speech.&#8221;
Goldberg kept going down the rabbit hole, asserting that conservative claims of government censorship of their speech — which President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration bragged about doing and multiple social media platforms admitted to aiding in their efforts — were bogus.
&#8220;In fact, you&#8217;re doing the same thing you&#8217;re accusing everyone else of doing,&#8221; she lectured. &#8220;And you&#8217;re doing it in a way we&#8217;ve never seen before because very few people have kept you from speaking out.&#8221;

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Whoopi Claims That If Trump Can Deport Terrorists, He Can Deport ‘Any One Of Us’

Whoopi Claims That If Trump Can Deport Terrorists, He Can Deport 'Any One Of Us'

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Deportations

The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; were at their wits&#8217; end on Monday as they discussed the Republican-led Continuing Resolution that passed on Friday, ensuring that the federal government would be funded until September, complaining that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had some explaining to do.
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg led the charge, saying that she planned to have a heart-to-heart with Schumer when he comes to the set for a Tuesday appearance on the midday talk show.
&#8220;So Senator Schumer is going to be here tomorrow, so we&#8217;ll have – yeah — so we&#8217;ll have a lot to talk about,&#8221; Goldberg said, prompting a few laughs from the audience.
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The View is not happy that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) doesn&#39;t want to shut down the government. Whoopi announces that he&#39;s be on the show tomorrow and reassures the liberal audience they&#39;ll assail him over it. <a href="https://t.co/htjplnANm9">pic.twitter.com/htjplnANm9</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1901654169771217125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines defended Schumer, arguing that allowing the government to shut down would likely have ultimately hurt Democrats.
&#8220;I think that he had two awful options, and this was the one that he chose, and I actually agree. A government shutdown never looks good on the party that seems to be the one that&#8217;s asking for it,&#8221; Haines said, adding that by allowing a shutdown and inviting that criticism, Democrats would be &#8220;taking the target off their back, Trump and Elon Musk, and putting it all on the Democrats&#8221; instead.
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Ana Navarro clashes with Haines and starts yelling at her:
HAINES: This is taking off all the guardrails and let them do whatever the hell they want. NAVARRO: I think that when the Democratic base is hearing chuck Schumer say, I&#39;m going to support this funding bill is because if… <a href="https://t.co/fxlyzkNpPu">pic.twitter.com/fxlyzkNpPu</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1901658288732655801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Ana Navarro objected immediately, telling Haines, &#8220;I love you but I don&#8217;t buy that explanation from you.&#8221;
&#8220;This is just take off all the guardrails and let them do whatever the hell they want,&#8221; Haines said.
&#8220;I think that when the Democratic base is hearing Chuck Schumer say, &#8216;The reason that I&#8217;m going to support this funding bill is because if not it&#8217;s going to give Trump and Elon the power to fire federal workers and to get rid of departments,&#8221; Navarro said, adding, &#8220;They&#8217;re already doing that! So it&#8217;s, like, me saying, okay, you know what? I&#8217;m going to get out of the shower but I&#8217;m not going to go outside and stand in the rain because I&#8217;m already wet. They&#8217;re already soaking wet! They&#8217;re already fired!&#8221;
&#8220;Okay so you don&#8217;t care about —&#8221; Haines objected.
&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter what I care about it&#8217;s already happening!&#8221; Navarro shot back.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin also said it was wise for Schumer to prevent a government shutdown, but argued that the Democrats&#8217; messaging had not been the best.
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Sunny Hostin wants the government shutdown because the Republican would be responsible somehow: &quot;I think what you fight on matters too, and I think, again, that this was a fight that needed to happen, and it didn&#39;t happen because of Chuck Schumer. If you think about it,… <a href="https://t.co/JNXDYXNSte">pic.twitter.com/JNXDYXNSte</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1901663501741166918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin sided with Navarro, adding, &#8220;I think what you fight on matters too, and I think, again, that this was a fight that needed to happen, and it didn&#8217;t happen because of Chuck Schumer. If you think about it, Republicans would have had to own that government shutdown.&#8221;
Hostin claimed that because Republicans have slim majorities in the House and the Senate — even though it was only Democrats who could have forced or prevented a shutdown — they would have shouldered the blame for any ensuing shutdown.

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

‘It’s Already Happening!’: ABC’s ‘The View’ Is In Absolute Panic Mode Over Schumer Caving On CR

'It's Already Happening!': ABC's 'The View' Is In Absolute Panic Mode Over Schumer Caving On CR

Ana Navarro

There are a lot of things I&#8217;m willing to do for my podcast — a lot of sacrifices I&#8217;ve made over the years, both big and small. And usually I don&#8217;t like to draw attention to these sacrifices because no one tunes in to listen to my personal problems. But today I have to make an exception to my normal practice. And once you see the footage I&#8217;m about to share with you, you&#8217;ll see why.
I just endured what could be the single greatest trial of my podcasting career, if not my entire life on this planet. Without the assistance of any mind-altering substances or the YouTube fast-forward button or anything like that, I just listened to multiple minutes of Michelle Obama&#8217;s new podcast called &#8220;IMO.&#8221; Each episode is a full hour, and it features Michelle Obama, her brother Craig, and sometimes, if you&#8217;re lucky, a special guest.
The special guest, however, isn&#8217;t an important part of the formula. Whether the guest is there or not, you can expect to listen to approximately one hour of Michelle and her brother talking about themselves. It&#8217;s actually impressive, the degree to which the entire show is about inane, completely uninteresting details of these two people&#8217;s lives.
Here&#8217;s just a sampling of the first episode. And frankly, it&#8217;s an impressive achievement if you can even manage to get through this short montage of the most banal and uninteresting footage ever recorded. Here it is:
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When she says &#8220;blah blah blah&#8221; at the end of that clip — that was the one moment, in this entire hour-long episode, that really resonated with me on a deep level. That was when I thought she recognized that actually, people didn&#8217;t want to hear about her inferiority complex at Princeton, or her mom giving her an alarm clock as a kid, or the precise educational credentials of her husband. Maybe this would mark a pivot point in the podcast, where she starts talking about something remotely interesting. But it never happened. It never even came close to happening.
By far the best part of the first episode was the comments section, which included lines like: &#8220;This should be called “Drop the Mike” with Michelle Obama&#8221;; &#8220;Remember when this guy drowned his chef in a lovers quarrel?&#8221;; and &#8220;Joan Rivers was Right.&#8221; And then Mark Dice chimes in with, &#8220;Which one is Michelle?” — which is, credit where it’s due, one of the funnier YouTube comments I’ve read in quit some time. Then there&#8217;s a bunch of people wondering why she&#8217;s unwilling to be seen in public with her husband anymore. And then there&#8217;s this observation: &#8220;Someone here has got some serious balls, by that I mean whoever hasn&#8217;t disabled the comments yet.&#8221;
And that last person makes a particularly good point. You will not find a single positive comment anywhere on the page. As of Wednesday afternoon, a full 24 hours after this episode launched, it managed to rack up just 65,000 views. And more than half of that figure is from trolls. In the first 15 hours, it had under 20,000 views. Now everyone&#8217;s flooding in to mock it — but in the first two days it did not come close to 100 thousand views, which is the bare minimum you&#8217;d expect a podcast like this to achieve. Overnight it seems to have made it up to 160 thousand views, which means they’re almost certainly paying for views now. But all in all, this show has not resonated, to put it mildly.
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It&#8217;s actually incredible, if you think about it. Someone as famous as Michelle Obama launches a podcast that&#8217;s been so widely promoted and publicized, and yet no one&#8217;s watching it. The media tells us that Michelle is highly popular and would be a shoo-in if she ran for president. But the numbers suggest that the public isn&#8217;t all that interested in her.
Just to be sure I wasn&#8217;t missing anything, I subjected myself to the second episode of the podcast, which was also released on Wednesday. This one features an actress as a guest, but it doesn&#8217;t remotely change what they talk about, which is themselves. Watch:
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The lack of self-awareness is genuinely breathtaking, and at least a little hilarious. That last clip came at the very end of the episode, by the way. She spends the whole time talking about herself. And then she nosedives into astrology, and she claims she&#8217;s really interested in trying to understand other people. Having discussed herself for two hours across two episodes, Michelle Obama wants you to know that she&#8217;s really interested in understanding other people. That&#8217;s what this is all about. And once again, the comments are full of people asking what Big Mike did to the chef. This episode has about 75 thousand views in two days. Just for comparison sake, Joe Rogan released an episode on the same day. It has a million views.
Unfortunately for anyone hoping the misery would end here, there was one more video — a &#8220;digital exclusive&#8221; — that they uploaded along with these episodes. Picture the most cliched, trite content imaginable. And somehow this will probably exceed your expectations. Even if you managed to get through the other two clips, there&#8217;s a very good chance this will take you out. Watch:
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Whatever focus group they paid to come up with segments like this, they need to get a refund immediately. It&#8217;s like if you asked AI to generate a relatable podcast. It would come up with exactly this segment, and have everyone say exactly what these people are saying, and then it would give the podcast the name &#8220;IMO.&#8221; This is what Michelle Obama — who again, some people still pretend is major star and a potential presidential contender — is capable of producing. By the way, that video about hotdogs has 25 thousand views.
This is not just a problem that Michelle is facing. This is a broader crisis on the Left. The trans activist Dylan Mulvaney, for example, has just launched yet another effort to get himself some publicity, after falling off the face of the Earth. Specifically he released a new book that promises a &#8220;modern lens to womanhood,&#8221; even though it&#8217;s written by a man who decided he was a woman a couple of years ago. And predictably, his book launch has been a complete disaster, like everything else he&#8217;s ever been associated with. The word &#8220;flop&#8221; does not begin to describe this particular publication. It sits at number 1,081 on Amazon at the moment, just a few days after its release. A day after it’s release it had not cracked the top 500. This probably translates to maybe a few hundred books sold, at most. To go along with a rating of 2.9 stars on Amazon. So it&#8217;s an unmitigated failure.
Initially, I wasn&#8217;t even aware that Mulvaney&#8217;s book had come out. But then I saw that, like Michelle Obama&#8217;s podcast, pretty much every major media publication in the country has been covering it. CBS News, for example, had a friendly sit-down with Mulvaney. They asked him a bunch of softball questions which he somehow couldn&#8217;t answer. Getting a sit-down interview on CBS to talk about your book is the kind of promotion most authors can only dream about. Conservative authors especially. But this is the sort of assistance Mulvaney, as the great trans mascot, gets. And it has not moved the needle for him even one inch.
But maybe Mulvaney&#8217;s most embarrassing media appearance came on &#8220;The View,&#8221; when he didn&#8217;t seem capable of articulating a coherent thought. Watch:
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So &#8220;Whoopi Goldberg&#8221; begins by distancing herself from Gavin Newsom, because he dared to suggest — dishonestly — that he doesn&#8217;t think men should compete against women in sports. And then she asks Mulvaney about his thoughts on the topic, and it turns out that he has no thoughts. He can&#8217;t defend the idea of men competing against women, because it makes no sense. So instead, he defers to someone named &#8220;Schuyler&#8221; who he says is a &#8220;trans athlete.&#8221;
From what I can tell, Schuyler was a top-performing female swimmer at Harvard. Then she decided during a &#8220;gap year&#8221; that she&#8217;s really a man, so she swam with the men. And in that capacity, she went from a record-breaking swimmer to one of the worst athletes on the team. Somehow this is supposed to be proof of something, I guess. If you ask Schuyler, it&#8217;s proof that men don&#8217;t have any advantages over women in sports, even though Schuyler herself is living proof that the opposite is true.
But as the interview continued, Whoopi offered her own assessment of the situation, in an attempt to pick up the slack for Mulvaney. 
Here&#8217;s how that went:
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What Whoopi pretends not to understand is that no one&#8217;s &#8220;assuming&#8221; that women are weaker. We know that it&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s true in every relevant respect. This is why high school boys can defeat the best women&#8217;s soccer team on the planet. It&#8217;s why women don&#8217;t play in the NFL. And it&#8217;s why no one is watching &#8220;The View&#8221; anymore, or buying Dylan Mulvaney&#8217;s book, or listening to Michelle Obama&#8217;s podcast. People are tired of being lied to, in the name of a political ideology that becomes more discredited by the day.
We could add to this list the total failure of Meghan Markel’s Netflix show, and her Spotify podcast that was just canceled. These are all people — all leftists — who have been heavily promoted by the media and Hollywood. They get the kind of mainstream exposure that nobody on the Right has ever gotten or will ever get. And yet the audience doesn’t care. They can’t sell books or a podcast. The public is totally disinterested.
In fact, just about the only success the Left has had lately is with Gavin Newsom&#8217;s new podcast. That&#8217;s actually doing fairly well. But it&#8217;s only doing well because his guests are all Republicans. If Gavin Newsom were doing a solo show, or talking to other Leftists, it would do about as well as &#8220;IMO.&#8221; In other words, the Left has the same problem culturally that they have politically. 
They have no stars. No leaders in the culture or on the political scene. There&#8217;s a reason nearly all of the most popular political podcasts are right-wing. No matter how aggressively the Left tries to force demented actors and disingenuous politicians and incoherent ideologies on the public, it’s just not working. They can shove all of these people in our face, but what they’re discovering is that they can’t make us care.

IMO Live: Michelle Obama, Craig Robinson & Dr. Laurie Santos – 2025 SXSW Conference And Festival

Michelle Obama And Dylan Mulvaney Both Flop In The Same Week

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Rosie O’Donnell finally confirmed rumors that she moved out of the United States following President Donald Trump’s victory as she called out legacy media for not doing their job.
In a nearly ten-minute long video posted on Tuesday on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rosie/video/7480502460596079918">TikTok</a>, the 62-year-old TV personality/comedian and vocal supporter of the Democratic Party said on January 15, before Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, she and her 12-year-old daughter Dakota &#8212; who now goes by Clay &#8212; moved to Ireland.
“It’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming and I’m very grateful,” O’Donnell said, noting that she decided to move because it “would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child.”
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“I’m happy. Clay is happy,” she added. “I miss my other kids. I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country and when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”
“It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know,” O’Donnell continued, subtly referencing her past battles with Trump.
Without naming Trump, the former host of “The View” said the move out of the United States was something she just felt like she and her child “needed to take care of ourselves and make some hard decisions and follow through.”
O’Donnell said that the legacy media in America “has been letting us all down” and “haven’t been doing their job,” which she said they are required to do “in order to maintain a democracy.” The comedian also claimed the only place a person can get news about “protests and what not” was on TikTok, without explaining further.
“So, here’s hoping that they [media] will get better before it’s too late,” O’Donnell said. “And here’s hoping that it’s not too late already. Protect your sanity is all I can say. Protect your sanity as much as you can, and try not to swim in the chaos if possible. But I know it’s nearly impossible when you’re there in the middle of it.&#8221;
“I think about everyone every day and the United States of America,” she added. “And I am hoping that we can turn things around, counting on you, all of you, to do what’s right. And I think deep down inside, we all know what that is.”
O’Donnell has five children through adoption since 1995: Parker, 29, Chelsea, 27, Blake, 25, Vivienne, 22, and Dakota, 12, <a href="https://www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/mother-and-baby/733825/rosie-odonnell-children-what-to-know-estranged-daughter-chelsea/">Hello! magazine</a> noted.

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Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) claimed on Tuesday that the re-election of President Donald Trump was evidence that the United States was effectively going through its &#8220;angry teenage years&#8221; and argued that it was up to Democrats to get the people through that period alive.
Slotkin joined the hosts of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; to discuss the state of American politics after she&#8217;d delivered the rebuttal to President Trump&#8217;s address one week prior, and she suggested that the political &#8220;pendulum&#8221; swinging back to Trump was comparable to dealing with teens whose brains had not yet &#8220;fully formed.&#8221;
&#8220;I think there&#8217;s a feeling in the country — and I often say this — we&#8217;re about to turn 250 years old. right, we&#8217;re still pretty young for a country,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1899486028403982562" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slotkin said</a>. &#8220;These are our — like our angry teenage years, right? We are going through this push and pull where we&#8217;re happy, we&#8217;re sad, we want this, we want that.&#8221;
&#8220;And what do you do when you have a teenager threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive, so that their brain can fully form and you can come back to — kind of — what our country —&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;Are you talking about Trump?&#8221; cohost Joy Behar interrupted, prompting laughter from the audience.
Slotkin said no, she was not referencing Trump directly but rather the American people who had elected him.
&#8220;No, I&#8217;m talking about our country, we&#8217;re pendulum swinging. We&#8217;re pendulum swinging,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And so for me, there&#8217;s a — I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s a single American who feels like this is normal.&#8221;
Slotkin took a different tone over the weekend when she told NBC &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host Kristen Welker that Democrats were struggling to get a foothold, noting that President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress had them essentially &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-dem-has-no-answer-for-whos-leading-party-dems-have-been-on-their-heels-since-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on their heels</a>&#8221; since the November election.

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Whoopi Goldberg used an appearance by trans-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney on Monday to defend biological men invading women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; athletics and private spaces.
Goldberg and her cohosts on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; invited Mulvaney, a biological male who skyrocketed to Insta-fame by documenting his transition into a parody of a teenage girl, to discuss his book about becoming said parody. Mulvaney added insult to injury, invading women&#8217;s spaces once again by releasing the book on International Women&#8217;s Day.
Goldberg and her cohosts <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1899148581061251430">raved over Mulvaney anyway during Monday&#8217;s broadcast</a>.
Cohost Ana Navarro mentioned one anecdote regarding a biological woman who identified as transgender and competed against males, suggesting that somehow made the hundreds of trans-identifying males taking medals, awards, scholarships, and roster spots from women acceptable.
&#8220;Well, I think part of the problem that the trans community is facing, and it&#8217;s the same problem that women face, is if you don&#8217;t know anything about our bodies, you don&#8217;t know how it works,&#8221; Goldberg claimed, immediately affirming trans-identifying men as no different from women.
&#8220;So when you come in and say, &#8216;These men — these are men, you know, competing against women,&#8217; you&#8217;re assuming that the women are weak and just can&#8217;t do anything except be here,&#8221; she continued in mocking tones. &#8220;Have you seen female athletes? They know what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;
&#8220;So I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going on or why this is an issue. The same for me is when people say oh, you know, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know how I feel about you.&#8217; You do. God doesn&#8217;t make mistakes,&#8221; Goldberg asserted, despite the fact that the idea that people can be born the &#8220;wrong&#8221; gender is predicated on the possibility of God making mistakes.
&#8220;The challenge is not to the trans people, it&#8217;s to the people who are not trans. That&#8217;s what God is looking at to see how you treat people,&#8221; she insisted. &#8220;That&#8217;s what — that&#8217;s what is happening.&#8221;

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Joy Behar said on Thursday that while she wouldn’t cut all ties with friends if she found out that they had supported or voted for President Donald Trump, she also would not feel inclined to go out of her way to help them in a time of need.
Behar said during Thursday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC News that she would not “give them a kidney” if she learned that a friend who’d supported Trump was in need of one — and then she explained that she’d refuse to do so because the friend had made a poor moral choice.
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Joy Behar claims she&#39;s friends with a Trump supporter but adds she wouldn&#39;t give them a kidney to save their life: &quot;I won&#39;t give them a kidney but I could be friends with them&#8230;the thing about it, it&#39;s not just about politics, it&#39;s about morality, ethics, it&#39;s about cruelty,… <a href="https://t.co/TqMu3wzFXC">pic.twitter.com/TqMu3wzFXC</a>
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&#8220;I won&#8217;t give them a kidney but I could be friends with them,” Behar began. “I mean, the question — the thing about it, it&#8217;s not just about politics, it&#8217;s about morality, ethics, it&#8217;s about cruelty, it&#8217;s about discrimination. It&#8217;s about a lot of things. So, those are personal human values.&#8221;
“We’re not really just talking about fiscal conservative who pays more taxes, we’re talking about you as a human being,” she said. “So it’s hard to be friends with someone who signs on to something like that.”
Sunny Hostin agreed with Behar, saying, “Yeah, I agree with that because I think, you know, we&#8217;re in abnormal times. This is not the Republican Party of yesterday. I think it&#8217;s the Trumplican party in many respects. It&#8217;s so extreme. And if someone is supporting or voting for someone who is hurting members of my family, members of my community, our elderly, our children, gutting our government, firing people; I do have a hard time being friends with that person.”
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Sara Haines recounts growing up in Iowa where &quot;it&#39;s very common to know people that vote differently. I went from Midwest conservative life to super liberal east coast life.&quot; She and Behar blame the support for Trump on where &quot;they&#39;re getting their information from.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/m1mFn0vT6T">pic.twitter.com/m1mFn0vT6T</a>
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Cohost Sara Haines reflected on her own life, growing up in the midwest, where she said &#8220;it&#8217;s very common to know people that vote differently. I went from Midwest conservative life to super liberal east coast life.&#8221;
The consensus around the table was that the people who supported Trump must only do so because they get information from the wrong sources.

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

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Joy Behar claimed that President Donald Trump&#8217;s brief handshake with the Supreme Court&#8217;s Chief Justice John Roberts — at his address before a joint session of Congress — amounted to solid evidence that the Court was colluding with Trump.
Cohost Sunny Hostin weighed in ahead of Behar, boasting about the fact that she had not watched Trump&#8217;s remarks at all and touting counter-programming that had garnered some 200,000 viewers to the millions who watched the president.
&#8220;I know how much this present loves his ratings, so I did not turn the TV on. I turned the TV off &#8230; I watched the State of the People Summit which was counter-programming,&#8221; she said.
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Behar has a mental breakdown over Trump shaking Chief Justice John Roberts&#39; hand. She cooks up a crazy conspiracy theory and claims there&#39;s no longer any separation of powers: &quot;And there was a moment there that really stopped my heart and that was when Trump shook hands with the… <a href="https://t.co/vYXlgoMhga">pic.twitter.com/vYXlgoMhga</a>
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Behar then jumped in with her assessment of the Democrat rebuttal, delivered by freshman Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) — which she said sounded &#8220;very presidential in many ways, and she wasn&#8217;t being held hostage like the woman last year&#8221; — before pivoting to address her greatest concern about the evening.
&#8220;What I really wanted to talk about was something you just said, that we don&#8217;t have a separation of powers anymore,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;And there was a moment there that really stopped my heart and that was when Trump shook hands with the members of the Supreme Court who were there &#8230; He said to Justice Roberts, &#8216;thank you again, thank you again, won&#8217;t forget it.&#8217; Now, what do you think he was referring to?&#8221;
Behar then speculated that Trump was obviously thanking Roberts for the decision regarding presidential immunity, and her cohosts agreed. Hostin pointed out the Court&#8217;s low approval rating, suggesting the two things were somehow linked.
Behar kept at it, going on to argue that the exchange between Trump and Roberts was clearly evidence that the Supreme Court, like the Republican-led Congress, was &#8220;in the bag&#8221; for President Trump.

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg admitted during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show that she used her platform on ABC News to help spread Democratic talking points.
Goldberg and her cohosts spent a good part of the show sparring with Stephen A. Smith, who argued that Democrats so far appear to be learning all the wrong lessons from their losses in the 2024 election cycle.
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Whoopi Goldberg admits Disney and ABC News&#39;s The View is platform to promote Democrat talking points: STEPHEN A. SMITH: [Y]ou&#39;re talking about what he&#39;s doing. But before you brought that up you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I&#39;m challenging… <a href="https://t.co/XEZVbXzWTs">pic.twitter.com/XEZVbXzWTs</a>
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Smith argued that the 2024 election was not so much about President Donald Trump and the Republicans &#8220;winning&#8221; as it was about the Democrats losing because they couldn&#8217;t get a handle on a message that resonated with the American people.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not about him winning. It was an indictment against the Democratic Party and what the Democratic Party was offering the American citizens,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We might sit up here and talk about, hey, you should be a party for the working class, which the Democratic Party was once known for — they&#8217;re not known for that right now. Why? Because their message was catering towards others and towards other issues.&#8221;
&#8220;The forgot about the people that brought them there, that elevated the Democratic Party to what it was over these last few decades. That&#8217;s why they lost. He didn&#8217;t win, the Democrats lost,&#8221; Smith insisted.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s remind people what those issues were,&#8221; Goldberg replied. &#8220;Making sure that families had what they need &#8230; making sure stuff is there. Making sure that the America we all grew up in, where you could come and be whoever you were supposed to be or want to be, you still have that right.&#8221;
&#8220;All these things are the things the Democrats have always said, but now we have a guy who&#8217;s in who says you know, I&#8217;m gonna bring down the price of eggs, but first I&#8217;m gonna cut all these jobs,&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;And I&#8217;m not gonna see why they need to be cut, I&#8217;m just gonna cut them &#8230; that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re talking about what he&#8217;s doing,&#8221; Smith pushed back. &#8220;But before you brought that up, you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I&#8217;m challenging you on that. That is not what they were doing.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, yes, it was. I was here. We did it!&#8221; Goldberg exclaimed.

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The hosts of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; ganged up on guest Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday, pushing back on his claims that President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 election victory amounted to a mandate to govern in the way he had promised on the campaign trail.
The show&#8217;s hosts — including fellow guest and former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — complained that Trump&#8217;s slim margin of victory with regard to the popular vote meant that he did not really have the mandate Smith said he did.
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&#8220;He&#8217;s been going around with his cronies touting his so-called landslide and blowout win, but he won the popular vote by 1.5%. One of the smallest ever and he won the general election by less than 50%. So what kind of mandate is this?&#8221; Joy Behar began.
Smith, a sports commentator, pushed back, saying that he believed it was a mandate — and he laid out in detail the reasons he felt that way.
&#8220;It is a mandate and I&#8217;m going to explain why — and I don&#8217;t mind the question, but let me be very clear: I&#8217;m not supporter of Trump, I&#8217;m a supporter of truth,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;And here&#8217;s the facts. The man won every swing state. He increased in terms of his voter turnout in his favor from the standpoint of blacks, Latinos, and young voters. He increased his numbers in that regard from 2020. 89% of the counties shifted to the right! That&#8217;s a mandate!&#8221;
&#8220;We can sit up there and play around all we want to, in 2020 Trump didn&#8217;t win the popular vote,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t win the Electoral College vote. As a matter of fact, the Republicans haven&#8217;t won the popular vote if I remember correctly since 2004 — but they did this year. So 20 years after they last won the popular vote, they won the popular vote, they won the Electoral College vote, the man won every swing state &#8230; I don&#8217;t understand how people can look at that and say there&#8217;s no mandate. There&#8217;s a mandate.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a different definition of a mandate, I guess,&#8221; Behar protested.
Smith kept going though, arguing that the massive shift to the right was a clear directive for the Democratic Party to &#8220;find a new strategy&#8221; going forward.
As Smith left the set, Jean-Pierre was coming in — and she immediately informed him that she disagreed with his assessment.
&#8220;He won with the smallest margin of the popular vote since the 19th century,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said, brushing aside every argument Smith had made to assert that Trump did not, in fact, have any kind of mandate.

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