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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Joy Behar trashed billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View,&#8221; claiming that he was a &#8220;foreign agent&#8221; and was &#8220;pro-apartheid&#8221; and asserting that he was effectively running the federal government while President Donald Trump took &#8220;a nap.&#8221;
Behar and her cohosts on the ABC News talk show have been critical of both Trump and Musk since before the inauguration — often suggesting that the latter is actually the one in charge and directing things from the sidelines — but on Thursday&#8217;s show, Behar took things a step further.
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&#8220;Elon Musk kisses [Trump&#8217;s] butt and strokes his tiny ego, or big ego, whatever it is,&#8221; Behar began, prompting a smattering of laughter from the audience. &#8220;And he doesn&#8217;t get to do — he can take a nap while the guy, who was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa, so has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it —&#8221;
&#8220;He is a naturalized citizen,&#8221; cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out.
&#8220;He&#8217;s a naturalized citizen,&#8221; Behar repeated. &#8220;Oh, how did he do that? Did he come over the border legally?&#8221;
Griffin said she believed he&#8217;d come to the United States on an H1B Visa, and cohost Sunny Hostin jumped in then to claim that he&#8217;d overstayed that visa, suggesting that made him an illegal immigrant.
&#8220;This is just perfectly wonderful for Trump,&#8221; Behar pivoted back to her original point. &#8220;He can take a nap and let this foreigner, foreign agent, you know, an enemy of the United States, do his job.&#8221;
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg asked whether anyone else wanted to address the topic, and there was a brief pause before Griffin suggested that maybe they should &#8220;give him a little bit of time&#8221; before labeling Musk &#8220;an enemy of the United States.&#8221;
Fox News commentator Guy Benson pushed back on Behar&#8217;s comments, saying, &#8220;When it’s illegal immigrants, they chant that we are a nation of immigrants. When it’s a naturalized citizen they don’t like, this ugly nativism rears its head.&#8221;
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When it’s illegal immigrants, they chant that we are a nation of immigrants. When it’s a naturalized citizen they don’t like, this ugly nativism rears its head. <a href="https://t.co/EguyN7B2jG">https://t.co/EguyN7B2jG</a>
&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1895193546929643781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;At some point, @ABC is going to get sued for something these morons say. This may be it,&#8221; Pradheep Shanker added.
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At some point, <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC</a> is going to get sued for something these morons say. 
This may be it. <a href="https://t.co/UJrWLlizR7">https://t.co/UJrWLlizR7</a>
&mdash; Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) <a href="https://twitter.com/neoavatara/status/1895159635633492137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Perhaps with an eye toward just such a lawsuit, Behar scrambled to water down her claims when the show returned from a commercial break.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t really know for sure if he was [pro-apartheid]. He grew up in that time when [it] was in full blown &#8230; He was around at that time. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn&#8217;t &#8230; don&#8217;t be suing me, okay, Elon?&#8221; Behar <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1895150442725679361" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

Joy Behar Trashes ‘Foreign Agent’ Elon Musk, Claims He’s ‘Pro-Apartheid’

Joy Behar Trashes 'Foreign Agent' Elon Musk, Claims He's 'Pro-Apartheid'

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Sunny Hostin claimed on Monday that it was &#8220;un-Godly&#8221; and &#8220;not Christian&#8221; to oppose woke culture, arguing that people who did so only proved that they did not care about their neighbors.
Hostin and &#8220;The View&#8221; cohost Whoopi Goldberg discussed their own personal histories, saying that because they had always been around people who were fighting for things like Civil Rights and other issues, they had &#8220;never been asleep.&#8221;
&#8220;I thought about the conversations that you and I have had, Whoopi, so many times about the co-opting of the word &#8216;woke,'&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;And the fact that the right somehow has made it a dirty word.&#8221;
&#8220;To be woke is a word that came out of the African American community and it was about being — acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging people&#8217;s suffering,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it.&#8221;
&#8220;And so Whoopi will often tell me, &#8216;I&#8217;ve never been asleep,'&#8221; she added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s how I feel &#8230; so it angers me when people are like, &#8216;This woke stuff gotta go.&#8217; That&#8217;s telling me that you don&#8217;t care about my lived experience, you don&#8217;t care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community, you don&#8217;t care about the oppression of the disabled, you don&#8217;t care about the oppression of immigrants, you don&#8217;t care about your fellow neighbors — and that is un-Godly, that is not Christian.&#8221;
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Fake Republican suggests Christians are hypocrites for not being &quot;woke.&quot; &quot;They don&#39;t care about it while wearing big, fat crosses around their necks,&quot; she chides. Whoopi claims Being woke &quot;will make you a better person.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3QCbEzPxMY">pic.twitter.com/3QCbEzPxMY</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1894070442580730266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You know what the most ironic thing is?&#8221; Ana Navarro asked. &#8220;They don&#8217;t care about it, and they don&#8217;t care about it while wearing big, fat crosses around their necks.&#8221;
Goldberg weighed in as well, saying that being exposed to &#8220;woke&#8221; was what actually made people better and arguing that positive change could really only be made by making people uncomfortable.

Sunny Hostin: It’s ‘Un-Godly, Not Christian’ To Criticize ‘Woke’ Culture

Sunny Hostin: It's 'Un-Godly, Not Christian' To Criticize 'Woke' Culture

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Whoopi Goldberg took a page from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;basket of deplorables&#8221; playbook, admitting during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; that she can&#8217;t even talk to people who support President Donald Trump.
Goldberg still refuses to say Trump&#8217;s name aloud on the show — instead opting for terms like &#8220;the man in the White House&#8221; or &#8220;you know who&#8221; — and she made it clear on Monday that her disdain extended to half of the American people who voted for him.
The conversation began with cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, who noted that Trump had spent his time away from the White House between terms working on building out his agenda and planning how he could implement it — efforts that have been paying off during his first month in office.
&#8220;One of the things he is excellent at, and the media takes the bait often, is he writes himself into every story,&#8221; Griffin said. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t just do the Super Bowl interview, he attended the Super Bowl &#8230; he is working in a 21st century media environment that is outpacing traditional media but also the opposition. I think Dems are kind of playing on a 1990s playbook of, like, if I go speak on the Senate floor if I go on &#8216;Meet the Press,&#8217; it&#8217;s going to stop him.&#8221;
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Seemingly ignorant of how to properly address former presidents, Alyssa Farah Griffin huffs about people calling Trump &quot;Mr. President&quot; when he was out of office. She frets: &quot;Dems are kind of playing on a 1990s playbook of, like, if I go speak on the Senate floor if I go on Meet… <a href="https://t.co/YosnUKkcje">pic.twitter.com/YosnUKkcje</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1891523174350594091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Ana Navarro complained that the &#8220;resistance&#8221; against Trump was not materializing in the ways she believed it should, arguing that Democrats were struggling with &#8220;reaching people&#8221; to organize. &#8220;We all need to come together and show them that we&#8217;re mad as hell.&#8221;
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Farah Griffin says they need to talk to Trump voters if they want to persuade people. Whoopi says she doesn&#39;t like talking to Trump supporters and writes them off: &quot;It&#39;s hard to talk to people who support people who think you don&#39;t matter in the country&#8230;When you support THAT… <a href="https://t.co/GIp3Lg0f0A">pic.twitter.com/GIp3Lg0f0A</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1891527003821466094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Griffin noted that to be successful, they would have to &#8220;go into uncomfortable spaces&#8221; and include Trump voters in their efforts to bring more people in, and Goldberg balked.
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&#8220;I think this is beyond Democrats and Republicans,&#8221; Goldberg said. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to talk to people who support people who think you don&#8217;t matter in the country &#8230; When you support THAT person &#8230; when we find the stuff that we agree on, that&#8217;s what we do. When we find the stuff that is disagreeable to the majority, now, I didn&#8217;t find anything of interest for me in Project 2025. I didn&#8217;t feel like this is geared to us as a nation, I felt it was geared to very specific folks and that bothered the poo out of me.&#8221;
&#8220;I understand what you&#8217;re saying, and we do have to talk to each other,&#8221; she finally conceded.

Whoopi Goes Full ‘Basket Of Deplorables,’ Says She Can’t Even Talk To Trump Supporters

Whoopi Goes Full 'Basket Of Deplorables,' Says She Can't Even Talk To Trump Supporters

&#8220;The View&#8221; host Sunny Hostin claimed on Thursday that President Donald Trump wanted to gut the Department of Education because his end goal was to foster the growth of a &#8220;permanent underclass&#8221; of uneducated laborers.
Hostin made the comments during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC News midday talk show — even as Linda McMahon, Trump&#8217;s choice to serve as Secretary of Education, sat on Capitol Hill taking questions about how she planned to lead the department if confirmed.
Responding to Trump&#8217;s assertions that he would prefer to ultimately dismantle the federal Department of Education — turning the power over to the states — Hostin argued that he&#8217;d gotten the idea from Project 2025 despite his repeated insistence that he&#8217;d never even read it.
&#8220;You know, getting rid of the Department of Education is actually the first goal listed in the education section of Project 2025 &#8230; We warned everybody,&#8221; she said. &#8220;She also argued that the Department of Education wouldn&#8217;t actually save very much money because it was small compared to other government agencies.
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Sunny Hostin, an ABC News host, cooks up a conspiracy they that &quot;They&quot; want to cut the Department of Education because they to &quot;create in the United States a permanent underclass, a permanent cheap workforce, because educated workers cost more.&quot; &quot;That is the bottom-line and that… <a href="https://t.co/OIelJ8IbI5">pic.twitter.com/OIelJ8IbI5</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1890079870505386144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin followed that with her claim that the real reason Trump planned to ax the department was to reduce the number of American children who are provided a good education.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not really about saving money,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think there&#8217;s a much more nefarious reason for it.&#8221;
&#8220;Which is?&#8221; cohost Joy Behar asked.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s because they — without education, you get cheaper labor,&#8221; Hostin insisted. &#8220;I think what they want to do is to create in the United States a permanent underclass, a permanent cheap workforce, because educated workers cost more. That is the bottom line and that is what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;
McMahon addressed that point during her hearing, saying that she believed — as she said Trump also did — that &#8220;the best education is closest to the child.&#8221;
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Linda McMahon: &quot;I&#39;m really all for the President&#39;s mission, which is to return education to the states.
The best education is closest to the child.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/SacoBcC9T7">pic.twitter.com/SacoBcC9T7</a>
&mdash; Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1890063186675851335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘The View’ Host Floats Bizarre Theory Why Trump Would Ax Education Dept

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