Brittany Mahomes, former soccer player and wife to NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was the latest hate object of ABC’s The View on Wednesday as they suggested she was a racist who didn’t respect her interracial marriage nor her biracial kids. What did she do to warrant that level of vitriol? According to them, she committed the high crime of liking an Instagram post from former President Donald Trump.
The liberal ladies began taking swipes at the accomplished woman during a segment dedicated to raging at Trump for posting that he hated singer Taylor Swift.
Despite the fact that Mahomes had publically stated she was rethinking her support for Trump over the spat with her husband’s teammate’s girlfriend, Whoopi Goldberg released some hot air alluding to Mahomes being a terrible person:
Well, you know, he's politically activating her army of Swifties, and there are also rumors that her best friend Brittany Mahomes, who was hit with backlash a while back for “liking” a pro-MAGA post; she’s now rethinking her alleged support. Yeah. Yeah. And we've been really good about it. Okay. Because some could say, you know, this -- because he's mad at your best friend, now you're mad? It didn't bother you that he was being a racist and being a misogynist and -- that didn't get you going?
“But we're not going to bring that up,” she chided.
Co-host Joy Behar chimed in to argue that Goldberg shouldn’t be so hard on her because people should be given the chance to sour on Trump, like one of their cast members did. “We have so many people – and even Alyssa was a friend of his at one point but then she turned it around. And that's true of a lot of people and the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” she proclaimed.
Two and a half minutes later, staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) brought it up again. This time, calling Mahomes “problematic” and questioning her interracial marriage and the biracial kids she gave birth too:
It just seems to me that since she is in an interracial marriage, she should have known that to support a racist is problematic. Her children are biracial and her family is one of the families that in the '70s could not have lived in any of Donald Trump's buildings, so it just seems to me that maybe she's just not that politically savvy, or maybe she's just not read in, but its problematic.
Hostin has a history of calling into question the interracial marriages of people who lean to right. Justice Clarence Thomas and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) are particular hate objects for her.
Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin tried to stick up for Mahomes. “Well, granted, all we know is that she liked a Trump post. We don't know she -- she hasn't stated that she supported him but that's fair to interpret that she may have. But we don't know that she's a supporter,” she said.
“Yeah, okay,” Goldberg scoffed. “Like, you know, I'll take all of that. But I'm just saying, you know, pick your -- pick your champions, babe.”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 18, 2024
11:16:01 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, you know, he's politically activating her army of Swifties, and there are also rumors that her best friend Brittany Mahomes, who was hit with backlash a while back for “liking” a pro-MAGA post; she’s now rethinking her alleged support. Yeah. Yeah.
[Applause]
And we've been really good about it. Okay. Because some could say, you know, this -- because he's mad at your best friend, now you're mad? It didn't bother you that he was being a racist and being a misogynist and -- that didn't get you going?
[Applause]
But we're not going to bring that up.
JOY BEHAR: Well, no.
GOLDBERG: We're not going to bring that up.
BEHAR: You can bring that up. We have so many people – and even Alyssa was a friend of his at one point but then she turned it around. And that's true of a lot of people and the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Okay?
(…)
11:18:36 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: And that does make me hopeful, actually with the Swift-effect will speak to more women about the true character of Donald Trump and will turn them away. But to your initial point, I know you said we weren't going to talk about it, but I was.
It just seems to me that since she is in an interracial marriage, she should have known that to support a racist is problematic. Her children are biracial and her family is one of the families that in the '70s could not have lived in any of Donald Trump's buildings, so –
[Applause]
It just seems to me that maybe she's just not that politically savvy, or maybe she's just not read in, but its problematic.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, granted, all we know is that she liked a Trump post. We don't know she -- she hasn't stated —
HOSTIN: She has since – she has since taken it off –
FARAH GRIFFIN: --that she supported him but that's fair to interpret that she may have. But we don't know that she's a supporter.
GOLDBERG: Yeah, okay.
[Laughter]
Like, you know, I'll take all of that. But I'm just saying, you know, pick your -- pick your champions, babe.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: You know?
BEHAR: Yeah.
(…)
