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

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Former White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin argued on Wednesday that President Donald Trump absolutely “has a plan” for the ongoing government shutdown and how to best use it to his advantage, saying that Democrats were unlikely to enjoy the eventual outcome.
The ABC midday talk show opened with a discussion between Griffin and the other co-hosts about the shutdown that Senate Democrats triggered on Tuesday — and who was more likely to be blamed if the parties were unable to quickly reach an agreement and get things reopened.
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WHICH PARTY WILL BE BLAMED FOR SHUTDOWN? &#8216;The View&#8217; co-hosts weigh in after the American government shut down at midnight Tuesday following a last-ditch funding vote failing in the Senate. <a href="https://t.co/PjRuL2Kb4J">pic.twitter.com/PjRuL2Kb4J</a>
— The View (@TheView) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1973427689626157486?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Griffin cited polling that suggested Democrats were likely to feel the brunt of the public’s anger, saying, “There’s polling out there that says, well, 4% will blame Republicans and 23% are going to blame Dems. Another 34% of Americans blame both sides.”
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“Even on the Obamacare subsidies, you could pass it as a stand-alone bill,” she added, referencing one of the key sticking-point issues. “It does not need to be tied to shutting down the government. What I constantly hear is Donald Trump has too much power. The White House, the executive branch, has too much power. By shutting down the federal government, Congress, you’ve given up spending power.”
Griffin went on to insist that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would surely have “figured it out.”
“Well, yeah, she did figure it out,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg agreed, and then complained that the real problem was that Republicans weren’t bending to the whims of holdout Democrats.
“We just need a better person to compromise with. We need somebody who is willing to compromise,” Goldberg continued. “[Trump said] that he’ll go to work on Democrats during the shutdown. It’s like, why are you going to work on us? We’re trying to work with you. He wouldn’t meet with them.”
“But that’s my warning to Democrats. Donald Trump wants the shutdown. You guys shouldn’t have given what he wanted because it means he’s got a plan and I don’t think you’re going to like the outcome,” Griffin concluded.

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

‘The View’ Host Warns Trump Will Absolutely Use A Shutdown To His Advantage: ‘He’s Got A Plan’

'The View' Host Warns Trump Will Absolutely Use A Shutdown To His Advantage: 'He's Got A Plan'

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The hosts of ABC’s “The View” appeared baffled as to why the leaders of the United States military might need to be in peak physical condition, and spent much of Tuesday’s broadcast complaining that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was demanding physical fitness from his troops.
The cohosts were responding to the unprecedented meeting held in Quantico on Tuesday morning, during which Hegseth spoke directly to hundreds of the military’s top brass — all of whom had been directed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-will-attend-militarys-unprecedented-all-hands-meeting">attend that meeting</a> in person.
Complaining that Hegseth’s remarks described a “very retro vision for our armed forces,” cohost Joy Behar demanded to know why Hegseth was “obsessed with fat?”
“And fitness?” cohost Sunny Hostin added.
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Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin is confused why Hegseth and Republicans want the US military be physically fit and ready to go to war if the need was required: 
&#8220;I&#8217;m very lost on the fact that it seems like it&#8217;s become a Republican Party position out of nowhere that the… <a href="https://t.co/Rx4WlJY5zB">pic.twitter.com/Rx4WlJY5zB</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1973044316789445090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin suggested that the changes weren’t needed because the military was already in great shape — despite data indicating that more than two-thirds of current active military members are considered overweight, and 22% are considered “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fit-not-fat-pete-hegseth-promises-standard-overhaul-after-unacceptable-troop-fitness-report">obese.</a>”
“I’m very lost on the fact that it seems like it’s become a Republican Party position out of nowhere that the U.S. Military is weak. We’re the greatest fighting force in the history of mankind,” she claimed.
Griffin later suggested that Hegseth was critical of generals like former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley because he wanted to make himself feel better about his own service.
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Behar delves into conspiracy theories by suggesting there&#8217;s an &#8220;ulterior motive for all their crazy stuff.&#8221; 
Sara Haines answers by falsely suggesting recruitment numbers are down for the military. She also claims the meeting is putting the United States in jeopardy. She whines… <a href="https://t.co/kVP1alGITg">pic.twitter.com/kVP1alGITg</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1973047385321292101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines claimed there was a “recruiting lull” despite record-breaking recruitment numbers coming from every branch of service, and then complained that the security of the military was at risk because the meeting was held in person. She also whined about the cost of bringing them in for the meeting, and then complained that they’d done it just to tell the generals to shave and go back to “hazing” trainees.
Hostin was “befuddled” by the move to “toughen physical standards” and complained about Hegseth’s plan to reinstate higher standards.
“I don’t understand how that was supposed to be an uplifting message for our military,” she said.
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Joy Behar spew inciting rhetoric by claiming America will not survive Trump: 
&#8220;If you guys think we can survive another 3 1/2 years of this, I think you&#8217;re delusional. Every day there&#8217;s some nihilist thing&#8230; very day this guy is undoing something in this country that we value.… <a href="https://t.co/S0PtNHFPjh">pic.twitter.com/S0PtNHFPjh</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1973052155641692490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Behar pivoted back to Trump, adding, “If you guys think we can survive another 3 1/2 years of this, I think you’re delusional &#8230; every day this guy is undoing something in this country that we value.”
During his remarks, Hegseth declared that all military members — from new privates to four-star generals – would be expected to meet the prescribed height and weight standards and pass physical training (PT) tests on a regular basis. He also stated that “fat troops” in formations and “fat generals at the Pentagon” were a thing of the past and would no longer be tolerated: “It’s a bad look.”

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‘The View’ Hosts Can’t Deduce Why Military Leaders Might Need To Be In Top Physical Shape

'The View' Hosts Can't Deduce Why Military Leaders Might Need To Be In Top Physical Shape

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Joy Behar claimed on Friday that democracy had simply stopped &#8220;working&#8221; when President Donald Trump took office after winning the 2024 presidential election.
Citing a poll that said a majority of Americans believed democracy &#8220;wasn&#8217;t working,&#8221; Behar insisted that everything had been fine when former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden had been in the Oval Office, and that everything had obviously gone sideways because of Trump.
&#8220;So if you&#8217;re worried about where the country is heading, you&#8217;re not alone,&#8221; Behar began. &#8220;Seventy-nine percent of American voters think that the U.S. is in a state of political crisis, and more than half think democracy isn&#8217;t working.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s funny, under Obama and Biden it was working. All of a sudden it&#8217;s not working. Gee, what happened?!&#8221; she asked.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back, saying she didn&#8217;t think that was what the poll was really saying.
&#8220;I know but I&#8217;m saying it! I&#8217;m saying that!&#8221; Behar protested.
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Ana Navarro whines that stupid Americans &#8220;had forgotten&#8221; how much of an &#8220;authoritarian&#8221; Trump is. <a href="https://t.co/XfRRb1u1Xm">pic.twitter.com/XfRRb1u1Xm</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1971596104652173721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Ana Navarro claimed that Trump had only gotten reelected in 2024 because he&#8217;d been out of office for four years, and in that time, people &#8220;had forgotten how bad Trump was. I think it meant a lot to people in 2020 when Joe Biden was first running because we were just surviving that first Trump term.&#8221;
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&#8220;I think if someone was running now against Trump when people have been painfully reminded of what an authoritarian he is, it would be very different,&#8221; she claimed, arguing that the entire system of checks and balances had also stopped working — and that the American people were starting to see that. She voiced her disappointment in the fact that the federal district courts issuing orders against Trump did not &#8220;have the teeth&#8221; to more effectively enforce those rulings.

Joy Behar: Democracy Suddenly Stopped ‘Working’ When Trump Took Office

Joy Behar: Democracy Suddenly Stopped 'Working’ When Trump Took Office

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Sunny Hostin admitted on Tuesday that she had known in real time that her question — about what she might have done differently than then-President Joe Biden — could cost then Vice President Kamala Harris the 2024 presidential election.
Harris joined the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; for their midday broadcast, where they discussed her upcoming memoir titled &#8220;107 Days&#8221; — which details the short-lived and ill-fated campaign upon which she embarked just hours after Biden announced his plan to withdraw from the race.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin raised the question about the overall mood of the country at the time, asking whether Harris and her team might have missed signs indicating that Americans were desperate for a seismic shift away from Biden — and already viewed her, his vice president, as an extension of his presidency.
&#8220;Understanding that many people saw you as an extension of Joe Biden, were there glaring warning signs that, when there&#8217;s only two options to vote on, that you missed going into election day?&#8221; Griffin asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m a loyal person, and I didn&#8217;t fully appreciate how much people wanted to know there was a difference between me and president Biden,&#8221; Harris replied. &#8220;I thought it was obvious, and I didn&#8217;t want to offer a difference in a way that would be received or suggested to be a criticism, and, you know, in the campaign full-time I was pointing out the differences.&#8221;
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Looking for absolution, Sunny Hostin laments asking Kamala the infamous question that sunk her campaign.&#8221;You write you had no idea you just pulled the pin on a hand grenade. In the moment, I knew. The Trump campaign weaponized your answer against you; my question,&#8221; she whined.… <a href="https://t.co/efxlvwqZDy">pic.twitter.com/efxlvwqZDy</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1970517973375881439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin, who initially asked Harris the question heard around the world — what might Harris have done differently from Biden — said that she had understood the weight of the vice president&#8217;s non-answer in the moment.
&#8220;You write you had no idea you just pulled the pin on a hand grenade. In the moment, I knew,&#8221; Hostin said, and then argued that the real problem wasn&#8217;t Harris and her inability to answer the question, but the way that Trump&#8217;s campaign had made use of it. &#8220;The Trump campaign weaponized your answer against you; my question.&#8221;
Hostin asked Harris whether she felt like that question — and her answer — had tipped the election.
&#8220;Because Sunny doesn&#8217;t want to take the blame,&#8221; Joy Behar quipped.
&#8220;I absolve you,&#8221; Harris said to Hostin, but also said that she didn&#8217;t believe that one moment had cost her the presidency.

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‘The View’ Host Admits She ‘Knew It’: Her Question Torpedoed Kamala’s White House Bid

'The View' Host Admits She 'Knew It': Her Question Torpedoed Kamala's White House Bid

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris compared her 2024 presidential election rout to the loss of her mother, saying that she grieved her loss to President Donald Trump in a way she hadn&#8217;t grieved anything since her mother passed away.
Harris joined the cohosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; to talk about the election and her upcoming memoir, titled &#8220;107 Days,&#8221; which details the abbreviated and ill-fated presidential campaign upon which she&#8217;d embarked after former President Joe Biden bowed out of the race.
After the introductions, cohost Sara Haines kicked things off by complaining that everything had seemed to be on the upswing for Democrats once Biden dropped out of the race in late July, nearly one month after his disastrous televised debate against Trump.
&#8220;There seemed to be so much momentum after President Biden stepped aside. There was a renewed sense of hope for Democrats, honestly for everyone. It felt like there was this great option,&#8221; Haines said of Harris. &#8220;Money was pouring in to the tune of a billion dollars. There were huge crowds at your events and then election night came, and it was 2016 all over again.&#8221;
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Joy Behar and Kamala agree Election Night 2024 was &#8220;traumatic.&#8221; 
Kamala compares losing the election to the death of her mother: 
&#8220;But that night, I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died&#8230;And it was &#8212; I was &#8212; the pain was &#8212; it was not at all about losing a race,… <a href="https://t.co/H5Yz7wVeLJ">pic.twitter.com/H5Yz7wVeLJ</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1970511286350823535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Harris admitted then that she and her husband, former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, had not talked about election night — because it had been so &#8220;traumatic&#8221; — before she sat down to write about it in her book.
&#8220;That night, I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died &#8230; And it was — I was — the pain was — it was not at all about losing a race, I knew what it was going to mean for the country. I was going to say for the family, and that&#8217;s how I felt for the country,&#8221; she said arguing that her grief was primarily for the country under President Trump&#8217;s leadership. &#8220;And all I could say over and over again is my God, my God, my God.&#8221;

Kamala Compares 2024 Election Rout To Losing Her Mother

The women of “The View” are known for delusional takes, but when it came to discussing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, they displayed a remarkable amount of restraint and introspection, for once.
Panelist Whoopi Goldberg began by calling the shooting “beyond devastating.”
“Our hearts, of course, go out to the family of Charlie Kirk,” she added, praising “politicians from both sides of the aisle” who spoke out “against the violence” and “urged Americans to come together” in the wake of the tragedy.
“Isn’t a fundamental part of being an American is that we’re able to express our opinions to each other without fear and this kind of horror happening?” Goldberg went on. “It seems to be something we’ve been seeing more and more of. It’s not even Left or Right. It’s just people being taken out because of their beliefs or their thoughts.”
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Some of what The View had to say about Charlie Kirk&#8217;s assassination:
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I hope it doesn&#8217;t have a chilling effect whether you&#8217;re left or right on your ability to speak your mind. I know the one thing we all agree about on this table, we all share our… <a href="https://t.co/i7eNIuMfx7">pic.twitter.com/i7eNIuMfx7</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1966168993850446087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Regardless of your politics, we’ve got to get to a place in this country where we see people we disagree with not as our enemies, but as fellow Americans with different viewpoints that we need to engage,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in.
She said Kirk was an “incredibly influential young activist on the Right” and that his death “is going to hit young Republicans really hard because he made them feel like when they were the lone conservative voice on campus, one of the only Republicans, that it was okay to speak up and say their viewpoints.”
Sarah Haines said, &#8220;He&#8217;d talk to people openly, who disagreed. So the irony of being violently killed while saying those words of what we need more of in this country, I know all of us agree on that part. There&#8217;s never a place for political violence.&#8221;
The tone of all the panelists was somber as they discussed the assassination.
“I can’t believe that someone would kill another person because they were speaking their beliefs. This is antithetical to who we are as Americans. The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason. We should be able to voice whatever opinions we have,” Sunny Hostin chimed in.
Goldberg ended the segment with instructions for viewers going forward. 
“All the things we’ve seen — the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the aggressiveness when they went after Paul Pelosi, the couple in Minnesota — this is not the way we do it,” she said. “We say this every time, but, somehow, it’s not resonating, and I hope that young Republicans never forget that they have voice. They have a voice. We all have voices. We should never ever be afraid. It’s beyond, beyond. And Charlie Kirk’s assassin is still at large.”

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‘The View’ Reacts To Charlie Kirk Assassination: ‘Antithetical To Who We Are As Americans’

'The View' Reacts To Charlie Kirk Assassination: 'Antithetical To Who We Are As Americans'

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; on Wednesday discussed the horrific stabbing that took place on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, in late August, and quickly concluded that President Donald Trump was actually to blame for it.
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the discussion by noting the seriousness of the situation. &#8220;Look, a young woman is dead,&#8221; she said before criticizing those who would bring politics into the conversation. &#8220;A man who should have been behind bars was loose and out &#8230; he was a schizophrenic man. His mother begged them to take him and put him away. So stop politicizing this! This is not political! This has to do with how we take care of our sick Americans when they are in need.&#8221;
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Joy Behar blames Trump and Republicans for Iryna Zaruska&#8217;s murder: 
&#8220;But that&#8217;s why it is political. That&#8217;s why it is exactly why it is a political situation because in the first 40 days of the Trump administration, this one, they terminated 128 grants from the National Institute… <a href="https://t.co/mhlkPER2QD">pic.twitter.com/mhlkPER2QD</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1965800590711181647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Joy Behar responded by immediately politicizing the tragedy, claiming, &#8220;That&#8217;s why it is exactly why it is a political situation because in the first 40 days of the Trump administration, this one, they terminated 128 grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. In May they cut $1 billion in federal grants for mental health services.&#8221;
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, billed as the lone Republican on the panel despite a 2024 vote for Kamala Harris, tried to dial back the politics slightly. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think most Americans hear a tragedy and see that video footage and think is this the Democrat or Republicans fault? They think what went wrong and what could the solution be?&#8221;
She then identified bail reform as a problem, but failed to connect it to the Democratic policies that it so often accompanies.
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Sara Haines calls for &#8220;something between prison and walking free that keeps everyone safe.&#8221; 
Adding: &#8220;If you refuse medical treatment and are this sort of risk you should never be out and about when the red flags were raised.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/2wEAyhEu0g">pic.twitter.com/2wEAyhEu0g</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1965802000269881484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Sara Haines made the case for a sort of halfway house, but was not clear on how to make sure the people who should be kept off the streets could be made to go there.
Saying that what was truly needed was &#8220;something between prison and walking free that keeps everyone safe,&#8221; she added, &#8220;If you refuse medical treatment and are this sort of risk you should never be out and about when the red flags were raised.&#8221;
&#8220;We need to take care of people that are mentally ill,&#8221; Sunny Hostin declared. &#8220;It is a pandemic at this point. It is a pandemic at this point.&#8221;
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Whoopi demands &#8220;stop trying to place blood on people&#8217;s hands&#8221; by pointing out the failing of Democratic crime politics. 
She chides Republicans for pointing fingers at Democrats because the right is really to blame: 
&#8220;Every time you blame somebody for this it makes people say,… <a href="https://t.co/hpC9l6Ubc7">pic.twitter.com/hpC9l6Ubc7</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1965804342713155880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg wrapped up the conversation by once again scolding Republicans for calling out the Democratic policies that have encouraged crime in nearly every major city nationwide. Instead, she blamed Republicans: &#8220;Every time you blame somebody for this it makes people say, &#8216;well, you let it happen because you made these cuts &#8230; you got to be a help and not a hindrance!'&#8221;
The murder took place on August 22, when 14-time repeat offender Decarlos Johnson Jr. — who was reportedly aboard the train without a ticket — stood up and stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who had been sitting quietly in front of him and looking at her phone. While she bled out in her seat, Johnson stood up and walked to the door, calmly removing his sweatshirt as her blood dripped onto the floor.
Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, after giving <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlotte-mayor-uses-brutal-train-murder-to-lecture-about-mental-health-resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lip service</a> to the victim and her family, went on a lengthy rant about the state of mental health care and resources in North Carolina. She failed to mention that Johnson had already seen 14 court cases in Mecklenburg County alone and had been released on his own recognizance at his last court appearance. She also did not mention that the Charlotte District Attorney&#8217;s Office was under-resourced, with only 85 active prosecutors and a backlog of three hundred homicide cases.

‘The View’ Tries To Pin Horrific Train Murder On President Trump

'The View' Hosts Know Exactly Who's To Blame For Horrific Train Murder: TRUMP!

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Whoopi Goldberg is once again claiming that one reason she won’t retire from hosting “The View” is that she doesn’t have enough money.
The 69-year-old comedian discussed the situation during a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight. When asked if she was ready to slow down and enjoy her life, Goldberg replied, “Yeah, but who can afford to do that? You know if you don’t marry well, you gotta keep working.”
The interviewer pressed on that point, saying Goldberg may be someone who could afford to retire. “No, not by now. Not yet,” the “Sister Act” star insisted.
At another point, Goldberg said, “I’ve got to keep paying those bills, baby.”
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This isn’t the first time the host of “The View” indicated that she hadn’t earned enough money to step back from her career. 
In November 2024, Goldberg indicated she was “working class” because she was still working.
“I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too, I work for a living,” Goldberg said at the time, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-goldberg-says-shes-a-working-person-would-leave-the-view-if-she-had-more-money?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Whoopi+Goldberg+Says+She%E2%80%99s+A+%E2%80%98Working+Person%2C%E2%80%99+Would+Leave+%E2%80%98The+View%E2%80%99+If+She+Had+More+Money">reported</a>. “If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here. OK? So, I’m a working person, and my kid has to feed her family, and my great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family.”
According to CelebrityNetWorth, Goldberg has a net worth of $60 million and an annual salary of $8 million.
Goldberg and the other panelists on “The View” have been mocked for years for their stridently partisan opinions. They are currently in full meltdown mode over Trump’s second presidency, criticizing him for his stance on almost everything. 
Joy Behar, 83, also spoke with Entertainment Tonight, saying she wasn’t planning to retire either. She said it had to do with creativity, not finances.
“I just really like to write and create stuff,” she said. “Creative people don’t retire, they don’t resign, they just keep going,” she added.

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&#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; host Tony Dokoupil offered a different take than most of his colleagues — and even some at other legacy media networks — when he conceded on Tuesday that the decision to oust Stephen Colbert and cancel &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; might have been about politics, but not in the way they all thought.
Amid a virtual firestorm of complaints that Colbert&#8217;s cancellation was political — specifically, he&#8217;d been too <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-melts-down-over-colbert-king-trump-is-coming-for-the-court-jesters">vocally opposed to President Donald Trump</a> on a network that was staring down the barrel of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-and-important-win-trump-crows-over-settlement-in-cbs-paramount-lawsuit">multi-million dollar lawsuit</a> — Dokoupil argued that the &#8220;one-sided&#8221; nature of Colbert&#8217;s commentary may have put off more people than just Trump.
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WATCH: ‘CBS Mornings’ co-host Tony Dokoupil brings a much-needed reality check to the table of liberal journalists fawning over ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’. His co-hosts dismissed all this, proving his point:
“I don’t have an MBA, but I don’t — [Jon Stewart] is not… <a href="https://t.co/qR5R74g2vY">pic.twitter.com/qR5R74g2vY</a>
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Co-host Vladimir Duthiers complained that, regardless of the expense to produce shows like Colbert&#8217;s, they were &#8220;part of the cultural zeitgeist and they have been part of television since the beginning of television. So that’s why people are reacting the way that they are.&#8221;
Over several objections from his co-hosts, Dokoupil laid out his point — and also argued that comedian Jon Stewart was wrong when he suggested that Paramount had felt threatened by Colbert&#8217;s show as the merger progressed: &#8220;No, I understand the emotional views. I don’t have an MBA, but [Stewart is] not right that the merger, the $8 billion, is based on reruns of a comedy show, no. People are buying the movies and the sitcoms, and the sports. They’re not based on reruns of us either, so I think it’s wrong.”
&#8220;And what no one seems to acknowledge is that the politics also changed,&#8221; Dokoupil continued. &#8220;The business changed, and so did the politics. And it got way more one-sided than anything Johnny Carson was ever doing. I think we should reflect on those changes as well. It’s been a big shift culturally in that regard, also for sure.&#8221;
&#8220;People will miss those shows when they&#8217;re gone, that&#8217;s the bottom line,&#8221; Duthiers insisted.

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Joy Behar claimed on Tuesday that late-night comedian Stephen Colbert had his show canceled because &#8220;King&#8221; President Donald Trump was &#8220;coming for the comedians&#8221; and not allowing the &#8220;court jesters&#8221; to do their jobs.
Referencing medieval tradition — specifically, the notion that only the court jester was allowed to mock the king and for that reason had an obligation to do so — Behar suggested that Colbert&#8217;s show was getting the axe because Trump did not like being mocked.
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Ignoring how he lost $40 million, Joy Behar falsely claims Stephen Colbert lost his job (in 10 months) because &#8220;King&#8221; Trump is coming for &#8220;the court jester[s].&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/TUS5ZQgdQX">pic.twitter.com/TUS5ZQgdQX</a>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin complained that Colbert&#8217;s dismissal — which appears to have been based on net losses due to insufficient ad revenue — amounted to &#8220;the dismantling of our democracy, This is the dismantling of our Constitution.&#8221;
&#8220;If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled,&#8221; Hostin continued, ignoring the financial issues in play and suggesting that Colbert had been canceled solely because he was vocally opposed to Trump. &#8220;What are we going to do as a country? We must protect our Constitution and we must protect our democracy. This is bigger than just the cancellation of a television show.&#8221;
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Sara Haines admits that &#8220;linier TV&#8221; is on a downward slope and advertisers are not dropping the same type of money they used to as they move to digital platforms. 
She wonders: &#8220;Even when you take Stephen Colbert out of the 20 million [salary] where do you come up with the other… <a href="https://t.co/kJAh0rSgMh">pic.twitter.com/kJAh0rSgMh</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1947679867698327574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines conceded that there could be financial reasons for the decision, noting that advertisers were not putting up the same kind of cash they used to as streaming platforms have taken up some of the bandwidth.
Hostin pushed back, saying that Colbert had raked in some $60 million in ad buys — but left out the fact that his show cost around $100 million to produce, resulting in a $40 million loss.
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Whoopi says The View supports Colbert and they have his back. 
Despite the fact it was announced that The Late Show would be no more, she insists that &#8220;I&#8217;m not seeing that the Late Show is gone. I don&#8217;t feel like it&#8217;s gone.&#8221; 
She refused to say why she thought that, proclaiming… <a href="https://t.co/puZW9V37d4">pic.twitter.com/puZW9V37d4</a>
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Whoopi Goldberg weighed in then, saying that no matter what happened, she would stand with Colbert. &#8220;I&#8217;m not seeing that the Late Show is gone. I don&#8217;t feel like it&#8217;s gone.&#8221;

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‘The View’ Melts Down Over Colbert: ‘King’ Trump Is ‘Coming For' The Court Jesters

Whoopi Goldberg unleashed on businessman Mark Cuban on Tuesday, complaining that he was getting things wrong when he said that simply complaining that &#8220;Trump sucks&#8221; did not seem to be working effectively as a message for the Democrats going forward.
Goldberg, from her platform on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; suggested the Cuban was aiming his criticism the wrong people and argued that Democrat voters had been out protesting Trump from the very beginning of his first term. She did not, however, offer any evidence that they had presented a more cohesive message beyond simply complaining that Trump was bad.
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Whoopi RAGES over Mark Cuban saying Dems need to have a better message than just &#8220;Trump sucks.&#8221; 
After playing a clip of Cuban, she starts shouting: 
&#8220;Okay. Yeah, okay. So, let me remind everybody who was out on the front lines marching when we had the giant marches that went on,… <a href="https://t.co/73RIbjMPDH">pic.twitter.com/73RIbjMPDH</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1945143393153163471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cuban broke down several of the issues he believes are facing the Democratic Party during a recent appearance on the &#8220;Pod Save America&#8221; podcast — where he also suggested that former Vice President Kamala Harris had been kept from doing the &#8220;bro podcasts&#8221; because her campaign leadership &#8220;didn&#8217;t trust her&#8221; — and the topic turned to messaging.
&#8220;Trump says, you know, &#8216;the sky is blue,&#8217; Trump sucks,&#8221; Cuban said, commenting on the Democrats&#8217; almost reflexive habit of contradicting every statement President Donald Trump makes. &#8220;You can&#8217;t — that&#8217;s not the way to win. It&#8217;s just not, because it&#8217;s not about Trump, it&#8217;s about the people of the United States of America and what&#8217;s good for them — and how you get them to a place where they&#8217;re in a better position.&#8221;
Goldberg, responding to Cuban&#8217;s comment, unloaded: &#8220;Okay. Yeah, okay. So, let me remind everybody who was out on the front lines marching when we had the giant marches that went on, it was the people, the people went out! They were not navel gazing.&#8221;
&#8220;It was older people who were saying, &#8216;why are you touching my Social Security?&#8217; It was not people whining,&#8221; she continued, arguing — without explaining which rights she was referring to — that it was about people objecting to Trump &#8220;taking away rights.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrats have been angry at what this man tried to do the last time. They&#8217;ve been angry this time. So, I — with much due respect to you both, I believe you are pointing the finger at the wrong person when you say Democrats! &#8230; Our messaging has not been bad,&#8221; she insisted, saying that a line should be drawn between elected Democrats and voters.

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Whoopi Attacks Mark Cuban For Realizing That ‘Trump Sucks’ Isn’t Good Messaging

Whoopi Attacks Mark Cuban For Realizing That 'Trump Sucks' Isn't Good Messaging

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