The body of conservative activist Charlie Kirk wasn’t even in the ground yet when ABC co-host Joy Behar decided to go back to spewing inciting rhetoric against President Trump and conservatives. During Wednesday’s episode of The View, Behar proclaimed that America was “screwed” and moderator Whoopi Goldberg proclaimed that she didn’t know how long the Constitution would last. And not a single person on set seemed to reflect on their hyperbolic doomsaying given recent events.
An exasperated Behar interjected during their conversation about the Senate hearing of FBI Director Kash Patal to fret about the future of the country:
BEHAR: You know. I'm sorry, I feel as though--
GOLDBERG: Take a breath. Take a deep breath. Take a breath, Joy, take a breath and tell us.
BEHAR: I feel like we're trapped in a bad movie, like you've got these incompetent people running the government and we're like a bunch of sitting ducks. You've got the puppy killer. You've got the signal cake guy, what's his name, Hegseth.
“I mean, there's no end to the incompetency that we are experiencing as Americans!” she shouted. “So, I can almost not even talk about individual situations like this, because the overall picture and the elephant in the room is that we're screwed!”
Goldberg tried to talk Behar off the ledge by arguing that “it takes a lot to ruin a country” but Behar wasn’t having it:
GOLDBERG: No, we're not screwed because –
BEHAR: I know you say that every day but I feel like we are.
GOLDBERG: I say it every day, and yet we are still standing.
BEHAR: Just barely.
GOLDBERG: Yeah, but we're up. We’ve been – Listen, lots of us have be down. We know where down is. It takes a lot to ruin a country. It takes a lot to ruin a country. Because people wake up and they start to go, ‘You know what? I don't like what I'm seeing.’
BEHAR: Well Whoopi, it's only since January!
GOLDBERG: Yes.
BEHAR: I mean he's got another three years to go.
Goldberg proceeded to go on a bizarre rant about how people were giving up on libraries and were barrowing books from their neighbors if they needed information. “People are making changes and adapting in a situation that is meant for us to give up…It is put out there; they are doing things to grind us down,” she decried.
She also expressed relief that the Constitution seemed to holding up against Trump, but expressed concern that she didn’t know for how much longer:
And I see people bending but I don't see anybody breaking. I don't see people breaking and that is what gives me the strength to keep standing, because, you know, they come for us all the time. But we're standing and we're still here and God bless the Constitution. She's holding. I don't know for how long. But she has not broken yet.
Goldberg hinted at an ominous “alternative” for if the situation in America became untenable in her eyes:
GOLDBERG: So that's why -- that's why I remain – Because if I make a decision that says this is not handleable, what’s the alternative?
SARA HAINES: What's the alternative?
GOLDBERG: What is the alternative?
A dark and disgusting proposition given a leftist extremist just assassinated a conservative activist and other liberals were celebrating it and urging for more.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 17, 2025
11:07:43 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: You know. I'm sorry, I feel as though--
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Take a breath. Take a deep breath. Take a breath, Joy, take a breath and tell us.
BEHAR: I feel like we're trapped in a bad movie, like you've got these incompetent people running the government and we're like a bunch of sitting ducks. You've got the puppy killer. You've got the signal cake guy, what's his name, Hegseth.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Noem.
BEHAR: You've got the brain worm. You’ve got – I mean, there's no end to the incompetency that we are experiencing as Americans! So, I can almost not even talk about individual situations like this, because the overall picture and the elephant in the room is that we're screwed!
[Applause]
SARA HAINES: Well, Alyssa --
GOLDBERG: No, we're not screwed because –
BEHAR: I know you say that every day but I feel like we are.
GOLDBERG: I say it every day, and yet we are still standing.
BEHAR: Just barely.
GOLDBERG: Yeah, but we're up. We’ve been – Listen, lots of us have be down. We know where down is. It takes a lot to ruin a country. It takes a lot to ruin a country. Because people wake up and they start to go, ‘You know what? I don't like what I'm seeing.’
BEHAR: Well Whoopi, it's only since January!
GOLDBERG: Yes.
BEHAR: I mean he's got another three years to go.
GOLDBERG: Well, I don't know what we've got, except that I'm pretty sure that the people are taking care of the business at hand for them. If they're in need of something, they're going to neighbors. If they want books or they want information, they don't have to go to the library, they can go to next-door neighbors and get the information.
People are making changes and adapting in a situation that is meant for us to give up. It's meant -- it's put out there. It is put out there; they are doing things to grind us down. And I see people bending but I don't see anybody breaking. I don't see people breaking and that is what gives me the strength to keep standing, because, you know, they come for us all the time. But we're standing and we're still here and God bless the Constitution. She's holding. I don't know for how long.
HOSTIN: I don't know for how long.
GOLDBERG: But she has not broken yet.
HAINES: Yes.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: So that's why -- that's why I remain – Because if I make a decision that says this is not handleable, what’s the alternative?
HAINES: What's the alternative?
GOLDBERG: What is the alternative?
(…)
