ABC’s The View might be the most popular day-time talk show, but they definitely don’t have the kind of influence moderator Whoopi Goldberg was trying to exercise on Thursday’s show when announced that former President Trump and Republicans were banned from the black community after his contentious sit-down with the National Association of Black Journalists.
“Listen, he did exactly what often Republicans bitch about, ‘you don't invite me, you don't want to listen.’ Well, we invited you and we heard you. And you can't come back!” Goldberg proclaimed as the capstone to their reaction to the event. “And you blew it,” co-host Joy Behar agreed.
Responding to Trump’s comments about Vice President Harris playing different race cards depending on the situation, staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) played her biracial card and seemingly suggested that the KKK was trying to round her up:
HOSTIN: And I think when -- I'm a biracial person, right? I have a black father and a white mother. And the KKK is going to find me and round me up with every other black person. And so, I think the -- you know, this is my lived experience, and it's her lived experience and I think to question someone's racial identity --
GOLDBERG: Especially him.
HOSTIN: Especially him, the bar has fallen so low.
So, here’s the thing about relying on someone telling us about their “lived experience,” there are paranoid schizophrenics out there that have very livid lived experiences that never actually happened.
Hostin went on to decry the efforts of “white-led” businesses trying to help the black community:
He worked with Tim Scott, you know, his -- the only black Republican senator on opportunity zones. And if anybody knows anything about opportunity zones, what happens is, white-led huge corporations build things in black communities and black people usually don't even get jobs in those jobs. So, opportunity zones don't help black communities. So, he was trying, I think, to woo someone and maybe the only person he wooed was maybe Harris Faulkner, I don't know.
For Behar’s take, she suggested the whole thing was away for trump to appeal to his supposedly racist base. “My point is he was really working for his base right now,” she suggested without evidence. “It was like an opportunity to say to all the racists out there, ‘see, see what I'm saying here. See what I did there?’”
“I think that's what his motive was and also he's too stupid to realize what he's even doing,” she declared.
Adding: “But then he gets so threatened by a black woman asking him questions that he is petrified of Kamala in the debate. He's petrified. So, you are watching a very scared orange person.”
Excuse me Joy, that’s POC or person of citrus.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
August 1, 2024
11:05:54 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: And I think when -- I'm a biracial person, right? I have a black father and a white mother. And the KKK is going to find me and round me up with every other black person. And so, I think the -- you know, this is my lived experience, and it's her lived experience and I think to question someone's racial identity --
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Especially him.
HOSTIN: Especially him, the bar has fallen so low.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: That's the thing that is despicable and if you didn't know who he was he's saying it very loudly. I do want to give kudos to ABC's Rachel Scott who is just amazing, and Kadia Goba did an excellent job holding his feet to the fire. And there is something about when women challenge him that he unravels.
(…)
11:08:34 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: This did not win any votes!
JOY BEHAR: Exactly my point.
HAINES: This did not expand anyone. It probably lost people.
BEHAR: My point is he was really working for his base right now. That was to signal his base --
HAINES: No, he brags about black – he wants black.
GOLDBERG (interrupting Haines): Go ahead. Go ahead. Let her go. Say it.
BEHAR: I believe that's what his motive was. It was like an opportunity to say to all the racists out there, “see, see what I'm saying here. See what I did there?” I think that's what his motive was and also he's too stupid to realize what he's even doing. But then he gets so threatened by a black woman asking him questions that he is petrified of Kamala in the debate. He's petrified. So, you are watching a very scared orange person.
(…)
11:10:25 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: He worked with Tim Scott, you know, his -- the only black Republican senator on opportunity zones. And if anybody knows anything about opportunity zones, what happens is, white-led huge corporations build things in black communities and black people usually don't even get jobs in those jobs. So, opportunity zones don't help black communities. So, he was trying, I think, to woo someone and maybe the only person he wooed was maybe Harris Faulkner, I don't know.
GOLDBERG: Listen, he did exactly what often Republicans bitch about, ‘you don't invite me, you don't want to listen.’ Well, we invited you and we heard you.
BEHAR: And you blew it.
GOLDBERG: And you can't come back! We'll be right back.
