The ABC News co-hosts of Disney’s The View were channeling their friend Jane Fonda on Wednesday as they took to viciously bashing America’s services members as Nazis. According to the gaggle of liberal extremists, the ICE agents as well as the soldiers with the National Guard and the Marines in Los Angeles, California echoed “1938” Germany and the Nazis who were “just following orders.” Even the purported “conservative” on the panel took shots at them.
As spewed by staunchly racist co-host Sunny Hostin, the soldiers and Marines in L.A. were there to be part of President Trump’s dictatorial “power grab” and “suppress peoples’ rights.” She demanded that Americans “wake up” to her “truth”:
I think Trump is not doing this just for optics. I think that this is a test case so that he can dismantle some of our institutions. I think it's a power grab. I think he is trying to use the might have the military to suppress peoples’ rights. I think that is very clear. When you use the military against your own citizens, that is a sign of fascism. That is just the truth. We've seen it in history over and over and over again. People have to wake up to that!
Minutes prior, Hostin blamed the violence in L.A. on ICE for carrying out their duty to deport illegal immigrants. “Let's all be very clear, what's happening in L.A. is a direct result of what ICE is doing in California. It is a direct result of that. This was created by ICE. Everything that we're seeing,” she bitterly sneered.
Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin pleaded with them to “not take the bait” and “start demonizing those individuals as opposed to a president.” “No one is demonizing them. We're saying this is the result of ICE,” Hostin hypocritically pushed back.
Despite also claiming she wasn’t demonizing the National Guard or Marines, ABC moderator Whoopi Goldberg (with help from co-host Joy Behar) invoked the Nazis and how they were “just following orders”:
FARAH GRIFFIN: Correct, but I think it's very important to remember it's a commander-in-chief that’s made these decisions. They're following the orders.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. Think back, y'all. Where have you heard that before?
BEHAR: 1938!
GOLDBERG: “I’m just following orders.” By my commander-in-chief.
“We don't want to be what they were!” Goldberg shouted at Farah Griffin. Later adding: "We do have to be careful, because when we say things like, 'just following orders,' it leads to that."
While Farah Griffin was trying to get them to not demonize American service members, she herself denounced their very presence.
Despite repeatedly bragging about how she served in the Pentagon’s press shop, she bloviated about how Americans supposedly hated seeing the National Guard and Marines. “It's seen as societal disruption, it's seen as incredibly volatile, and it reminds us of our worst moments in history: after 9/11, after January 6, after the Rodney King Riots, BLM. Times when things were so volatile and society felt like it was really on the brink, that's when you had to deploy U.S. troops,” she decried them.
Americans see the National Guard as heroes. They’re the ones who come to their rescue when natural disasters strike; they’re the angels who swoop down from heaven in helicopters to pluck them off their rooftops during flooding and amid the flames of wildfires, and do the literal heavy lifting during relief and recovery efforts.
Americans love the troops. The View despises them.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 11, 2025
11:05:53 a.m. Eastern(…)
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: On that note, I was trying to kind of get into the head of Donald Trump on what he's doing around this and I think most of this is driven by politic. What I think he's doing is he is baiting liberals and liberal governors like Gavin Newsom into taking the bait and adopting rhetoric that he thinks will be divisive and damaging ahead of the midterms.
So, what he wants to happen is he wants Newsom and Democrats to start chanting things like “defund ICE” and “defund the police.” Cause we know that that hurt Kamala Harris, we know it hurt Tim Walz. They had to run away from those previous positions. And he’s trying to create that sort of stand off right now.
But here’s the problem, most Americans oppose rioting. That's just across the board. They may generally be like, if there's violence, if police officers are getting hurt, they don't like this.
JOY BEHAR: But they’re very much for protests. Americans.
FARAH GRIFFIN: They’re for peaceful assembly as enshrined in the First Amendment. But what I think Trump is missing here is seeing U.S. troops on U.S. soil is not a sign of safety and strength. That is not how the American spirit interprets it.
BEHAR: You think?
FARAH GRIFFIN: It's seen as societal disruption, it's seen as incredibly volatile, and it reminds us of our worst moments in history: after 9/11, after January 6, after the Rodney King Riots –
BEHAR: Kent State.
FARAH GRIFFIN: BLM. Times when things were so volatile and society felt like it was really on the brink, that's when you had to deploy U.S. troops.
BEHAR: But he's creating it!
FARAH GRIFFIN: But that’s what I’m saying.
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFIN: He’s misreading how it's going to be interpreted.
SUNNY HOSTIN: That's what I was going to say. You know. Let's all be very clear, what's happening in L.A. is a direct result of what ICE is doing in California. It is a direct result of that. This was created by ICE Everything that we're seeing --
FARAH GRIFFIN: By the direction of the U.S. president though. They’re following orders by the way.
HOSTIN: By the direction of the United States and Stephen Miller.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: But keep in mind, Gavin Newsom did not ask for them. He did not ask for them to come.
HOSTIN: That is usually the protocol.
GOLDBERG: That’s the protocol.
HOSITN: That's the protocol.
GOLDBERG: Okay.
(…)
11:08:18 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: I think Trump is not doing this just for optics. I think that this is a test case so that he can dismantle some of our institutions. I think it's a power grab. I think he is trying to use the might have the military to suppress peoples’ rights. I think that is very clear. When you use the military against your own citizens, that is a sign of fascism. That is just the truth. We've seen it in history over and over and over again. People have to wake up to that!
FARAH GRIFFIN: But I want us to be very careful and not take the bait. The National Guard --
HOSTIN: I don’t think its bait.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I haven't made my point yet. The ICE agents, those are nonpartisan actors for the most part who signed up for jobs, have served under multiple administrations, they did not necessarily sign up to be doing this, and they’re following an order of the commander-in-chief. And we could say they could all, I guess, resign in mass tomorrow –
HOSTIN: But what is the bait? What is the bait?
FARAH GRIFFIN: To start demonizing those individuals as opposed to a president.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: No, nobody is demonizing –
HOSTIN: No one is demonizing them. We're saying this is the result of ICE.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Correct, but I think it's very important to remember it's a commander-in-chief that’s made these decisions. They're following the orders.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. Think back, y'all. Where have you heard that before?
BEHAR: 1938!
GOLDBERG: “I’m just following orders.” By my commander-in-chief.
FARAH GRIFFIN: But again, can I just say. I want to finish.
GOLDBERG: No, no, because this is my point, we don't want to be what they were!
(…)
11:10:13 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: We do have to be careful, because when we say things like, “just following orders,” it leads to that.
(…)
