In the wake of far-left radical Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) again mocking Republican Governor Greg Abbott (TX) because of his wheelchair, the loony liberal ladies of ABC’s The View did their best to clean up the mess. On Wednesday, the cast tried to argue that Crockett was taken out of context, that it was only a “mistake,” and she only needed to apologize. But according to ABC News co-host Joy Behar, Abbott’s disability deserved to be mocked because he supported President Trump.
At the top of the segment, moderator Whoopi Goldberg parroted Crockett’s ridiculous excuse for calling the wheelchair-bound Governor “Governor Hot Wheels”: “Now, Congresswoman Crockett denies she was mocking Abbott's disability. She says she was referring to his use of train, planes, and automobiles to transfer migrants around the country.”
Behar immediately jumped in and defended Crockett and scoff at the fact that there was genuine outrage at her. She argued that Abbott’s disability deserved to be mocked because he supported Trump and Trump once mocked a reporter:
BEHAR: Where was the outrage from Abbott when Trump was doing this?
[Cuts to video]
TRUMP: Written by a nice reporter. Now the poor guy, you got to see this guy, “Oh, I don't know what I said. I don't remember.” He's going like, I don't remember. Maybe that's what I said.
[Cuts back to live]
BEHAR: Well, that was about a reporter named Serge Kovaleski that suffers from a condition that restricts joint movement. And he had interviewed Trump many times in the 80s. So, he was basically making fun of the guy's disability and I didn't hear the “OUTRAGE” then! [Used air quotes]
“Not that [Crockett]'s right or wrong,” Behar proclaimed, proceeding to further downplay Crockett’s use of “Governor Hot Wheels” to mock Abbott. “I mean, the thing about her, she was looking for a way to say ‘hot mess’ and ‘hot wheels’ and, you know, you should leave that stuff to the comedians,” she said.
Behar later tried to suggest that the reporting about Crockett mocking Abbott’s disability was just “another lie.” But co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out that there were several examples of Crockett mocking Abbott’s disability dating back years:
BEHAR: How about sometimes we have a headline about Whoopi and Joy, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh and when you read the article ‘they love each other. They love each other.’ So, that's another lie.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I should note though, she’d made a joke before about him, hot wheels numerous times.
BEHAR: And what did she say that time?
FARAH GRIFFIN: There was like three or four examples. Referred to him as “Governor Hot Wheels,” said he was ‘rolling up to the White House.’
Our friend Peter Hasson at The Washington Free Beacon, broke a story on Tuesday exposing the fact Crockett was liking Facebook posts calling Abbott “Governor Hot Wheels” dating back to 2021.
Much of the rest of The View cast wanted this scandal to go away as quickly as possible and lamented that Crockett had to go through this. Pretend independent Sara Haines praised Crockett as “a very talented politician” and “a very talented communicator” to whom which “people gravitate towards.”
Haines used it as an opportunity to attack a GOP congresswoman: “This was beneath her, because Marjorie Taylor Greene, we expect that. That's the only way she can get a headline is by saying crazy stuff and then everyone looks. Representative Crockett is so much better than this.”
It was another example of hypocrisy from Haines. During an interview with Crockett back in February, Haines lauded her guest for insulting Rep. Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) body and looks. “Well Congresswoman, you’ve earned a reputation for calling out certain Republican antics. We all remember the ‘bleach blonde bad built butch body’ moment with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene,” she touted.
Haines herself also once attacked Abbott for his wheelchair. Following the Uvalde School Shooting, Haines went after the Governor for sitting during the press conference. “Many people can't even peel themselves off the floor in grief in those communities and yet he's sitting there holding some kind of press conference,” she chided.
Co-host Sunny Hostin said she “admire[s] Jasmine Crockett” because “she is an effective messenger.” Hostin tried to downplay the comments as a “mistake” and advised Crockett to “own it.” “You have to do that because it gives you a lot more credibility when you do that,” she added.
Hostin also claimed she was only just finding out that Abbott was in a wheelchair, but noted that, as a representative from Texas, Crockett had likely known about it:
I did not know that governor Abbott was a paraplegic. I had no idea that he went around -- the people in the audience are also shaking their heads. I didn’t know that. I didn't know a tree fell on him when he was 26. A lot of his photos are taken from the waist up. But she is the representative from Texas, so she very much so must have known that he is in a wheelchair. And so, I hope that she does the right thing.
For her part, Goldberg suggested that maybe people were misinterpreting what Crockett meant by calling the wheelchair-bound Governor “Governor Hot Wheels”:
You have to be so careful with what you say because your intentions may have been absolutely what you said. But once people hear you say something, it is not about what you said, it’s about what they think your intentions are. So, everybody has got to be really careful.
Goldberg and Hostin teamed up to denounce calls from Republicans to censure Crockett. Seemingly under the impression that the GOP and Congress had to do whatever she personally ordered them to, Goldberg decreed: “[S]he made a mistake, and we're going to move on. We're not censuring people. We’re not going to do it. We're going to say to people, just don't do it.”
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
March 26, 2025
11:16:09 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Now, Congresswoman Crockett denies she was mocking Abbott's disability. She says she was referring to his use of train, planes, and automobiles to transfer migrants around the country. She should not have made the comment at all, but, Joy.
JOY BEHAR: Well, I was just thinking when I saw this about – Where was the outrage from Abbott when Trump was doing this?
[Cuts to video]
DONALD TRUMP: Written by a nice reporter. Now the poor guy, you got to see this guy, “Oh, I don't know what I said. I don't remember.” He's going like, I don't remember. Maybe that's what I said.
[Cuts back to live]
BEHAR: Well, that was about a reporter named Serge Kovaleski that suffers from a condition that restricts joint movement. And he had interviewed Trump many times in the 80s. So, he was basically making fun of the guy's disability and I didn't hear the “OUTRAGE” then! Not that she's right or wrong. I mean, the thing about her, she was looking for a way to say hot mess and hot wheels and, you know, you should leave that stuff to the comedians.
SARA HAINES: I think she should just own it because Jasmine Crockett is a very talented politician. Crockett, sorry. Is a very talented communicator, politician, she's effective, people gravitate towards her.
This was beneath her, because Marjorie Taylor Greene, we expect that. That's the only way she can get a headline is by saying crazy stuff and then everyone looks. Representative Crockett is so much better than this.
So, I think it would have been really relatable because the rest of that speech, if you watch it, she's really impassioned. She says, ‘I'm going off script.’ What I love a politician to do, is say, “I said that, I shouldn't have said that” and then move on because then everyone would move on with her. She's just too good for this.
(…)
11:18:49 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: You have to be so careful with what you say because your intentions may have been absolutely what you said. But once people hear you say something, it is not about what you said, it's about what they think your intentions are. So, everybody has got to be really careful. I'm sorry.
BEHAR: How about sometimes we have a headline about Whoopi and Joy, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh and when you read the article ‘they love each other. They love each other.’ So, that's another lie.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I should note though, she’d made a joke before about him, hot wheels numerous times.
BEHAR: And what did she say that time?
FARAH GRIFFIN: There was like three or four examples. Referred to him as “Governor Hot Wheels,” said he was ‘rolling up to the White House.’ Said -- it's --
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think -- I think that.
BEHAR: Not a good idea.
HOSTIN: You just don't mock people with disabilities.
GOLDBERG: You don't mock people.
HOSTIN: You don't mock people. I was just going to say, you don't mock people at all.
And I admire Jasmine Crockett. I do think she is an effective messenger. I think this was a mistake and I think when you make a mistake you have to own it. You have to do that because it gives you a lot more credibility when you do that.
I did not know that governor Abbott was a paraplegic. I had no idea that he went around -- the people in the audience are also shaking their heads. I didn’t know that. I didn't know a tree fell on him when he was 26. A lot of his photos are taken from the waist up. But she is the representative from Texas, so she very much so must have known that he is in a wheelchair. And so, I hope that she does the right thing -- they want to censure her for it.
[Crosstalk]
HOSTIN: That's not appropriate but it is appropriate for her to apologize.
GOLDBERG: You can't – If you want me to take everything you say when he talks about different people – You said, ‘No, no, he was just joking.’ Okay, then let's all do that right now and say, she made a mistake, and we're going to move on. We're not censuring people. We’re not going to do it. We're going to say to people, just don't do it. Don't make jokes. As Joy says – what is it?
BEHAR: Leave it to the comedians.
GOLDBERG: That's right. We'll be right back.
