ABC News should change the name of The View to “The Flag” since the liberal ladies change the direction of their outrage depending on which way the wind was blowing. Despite telling poor Americans to sit down and shut up about high prices during the election, they were suddenly up in arms Tuesday over President Trump’s post about those he dubbed “panicans,” the “new party based on weak and stupid people.”
Still juvenilely refusing to say Trump’s name, moderator Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the show by huffing:
Yesterday, you-know-who responded on social media to everyone who’s growing more concerned about this whose, you know, lives are potentially being played with by somebody who doesn't know them. And this is what he wrote, quote, “Don't be a panican,” defining as “a new party based on weak and stupid people.”
“A panican?” Hostin asked in confusion, giving Goldberg the opening to feign her outrage:
GOLDBERG: Apparently that's what panicans are. So, that means all our parents who are still living, who are living on Social Security -
HOSTIN: And 401Ks.
GOLDBERG: - and all of our children who may be going through all kind of health issues, all of our families who are trying to feed each other trying to get everything done, we're all stupid. We're all stupid.
HOSTIN: And weak also.
GOLDBERG: And weak, yeah. All right.
Further in the segment, co-host Sunny Hostin tagged in to fear monger that Trump would cause “Some people will become unhoused. Some people will not be able to feed their children.” Goldberg chimed in to add that “Some are going to die” because of Trump.
Hostin then started shouting that “We should call this the Trump slump. This is the Trump slump…Trump slump! This is all on him! All on him!”
In January of 2024, Goldberg, a multi-millionaire with her own brand of prosecco, told Americans struggling with high prices not to care about it because Trump was supposedly going to put them in a concentration camp.
“You’re worried that you can't pay your bill? Wait until the other guy becomes president, and you won’t have to worry about it because you'll be in some camp somewhere because that's his promise. His promise to us is he's going to force people to do his bidding,” she proclaimed, without evidence.
Hostin also attacked Americans by suggesting that their attitudes toward high prices were driven by racism:
‘I can't pay my electric bill. My gas bill's high. I need my food. Why is that? Why is my station in life like this? It's because that black guy got into Harvard and became president,’ or ‘it's because that immigrant is over there doing better -- driving a nicer car than I'm driving.’
In April of that same year, Goldberg lashed out at those same Americans for being angry at President Biden. Suggesting that he had no control over prices, and being profoundly ignorant of their profit margins, she told them to be angry at the grocery stores: “I think our kvetch is not with him for grocery prices. I’m mad at the grocery stores, because if all of the things have been open why are you still raising prices?”
Hostin also backed up Goldberg’s scapegoating of grocery stores. “Maybe we just need corporations like these grocery stores to be good corporate citizens and stop gouging! Stop trying to make money off of our backs!” she shouted.
While Hostin was insistent on Tuesday to call it the “Trump slump” and it’s “all on him,” in 2022, she refused to acknowledge Biden’s recession.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 8, 2025
11:02:22 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, this morning the economic roller coaster continues over tariffs imposed last week. Yesterday, you-know-who responded on social media to everyone who’s growing more concerned about this whose, you know, lives are potentially being played with by somebody who doesn't know them. And this is what he wrote, quote, “Don't be a panican,” defining as “a new party based on weak and stupid people.”
SUNNY HOSTIN: A panican?
GOLDBERG: Apparently that's what panicans are. So, that means all our parents who are still living, who are living on Social Security -
HOSTIN: And 401Ks.
GOLDBERG: - and all of our children who may be going through all kind of health issues, all of our families who are trying to feed each other trying to get everything done, we're all stupid. We're all stupid.
HOSTIN: And weak also.
GOLDBERG: And weak, yeah. All right.
(…)
11:10:12 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: Some people will become unhoused. Some people will not be able to feed their children. Some people will not be able to educate.
GOLDBERG: Some are going to die. Let's not get away from that.
HOSTIN: But I will say one last thing, we need to name what it is. Because we had someone saying this is Trump's economy. This is trump's economy. We should call this the Trump slump. This is the Trump slump.
[Applause]
This is his deal. He needs to own this. And we should not let him off the hook. Any time he says something like, ‘well, it's probably going to be good, I'm using it as a negotiation,’ as you pointed out. Trump slump! This is all on him! All on him!
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