After taking a few days to take in the historic ceasefire President Trump negotiated between Israel and Hamas and bringing the hostages home, ABC’s The View finally decided to talk about it on Monday. Out of the five cast members (six total) that were on the set that day, only two of them credited Trump or noted his role in any way. The rest spoke in bland platitudes or questioned why the war even had to happen at all. One’s reaction was so cliché that she even quoted “give peace a chance.”
As moderator Whoopi Goldberg led into the show’s opening segment, she played videos of the hostages being reunited with their loved ones. She bizarrely cued up a video of Trump speaking before the Knesset, but refused to say his name. Instead she told viewers, “And this was the scene at the Israeli parliament just a few hours ago. Take a look.”
Faux conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin was the first to give her reaction to the historic event and made sure to give Trump and the administration credit:
I think everyone should be able to celebrate it. And Listen, whether you like Trump or not, I think he, I think Steve Witkoff, and I think Jared Kushner do deserve credit for this deal. They actually personally met with Hamas.
I used to be of the mind we don't negotiate with terrorists but sometimes the only way to get peace is to sit down with some of the most evil people and try to come up with what we can do to end the bloodshed. So thank God, I pray that this peace holds.
Pretend independent co-host Sara Haines touted that the deal put pressure on both sides. “And knowing that Hamas has no power. One thing they kept sticking on every time the ceasefires didn't work is they did not want to cede power,” she said. “But I think the speech we saw today is going to hold to account also Prime Minister Netanyahu because Donald Trump went on record saying there are things that Israel now needs to do as well. So, this deal was a compromise.”
None of the rest of the cast present on the set, nor the audience, voiced any agreement with Farah Griffin. The only cast member absent was Joy Behar, who typically has Mondays off.
Bitter never-Trumper Ana Navarro refused to mention Trump in anyway. “You know, I'm cautiously optimistic because we've been here before and then it's gone wrong and I pray that this time it's different,” she proclaimed.
Navarro went on to lament about the war by seemingly not understanding why Israel had to bomb Gaza and ended her reaction with a cliché:
And you think of all the suffering, just two plus years of relentless, unending, unimaginable suffering. The families suffering, the victims suffering, the hostages suffering, the people who had to flee Gaza, the innocent ones suffering, and for what? For what purpose were these two years of such pain? So, you know, honestly let me just quote John Lennon, ‘can we please just try to give peace a chance?’
Up next was Sunny Hostin, a very staunch hater of the Jewish state of Israel and staunch supporter of their opponents. Despite being very outspoken and spending two years calling on Israel to accept Hamas’s ceasefires, Hostin didn’t have much to say now; only four sentences:
I think we've said it all. It's just, as a faithful person, it has been my daily prayer that there be peace there. And I remain a faithful person that this truly is the dawn of peace in the Middle East. I truly hope that this is what -- this will be a lasting, lasting peace there.
Before quickly pivoting to spending the rest of the pre-commercial break time on remembering actress Diane Keaton, Goldberg chimed in with misinformation trying to distance the Palestinian people from the terrorist government they knowingly elected to control them. “And also it's good to be able to say to people, remember the Palestinians are separate from Hamas. Remember they were not able to vote. They could not do anything. They had no rights in their country,” she argued.
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ABC’s The View
October 13, 2025
11:04:30 a.m. Eastern(…)
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think everyone should be able to celebrate it. And Listen, whether you like Trump or not, I think he, I think Steve Witkoff, and I think Jared Kushner do deserve credit for this deal. They actually personally met with Hamas.
I used to be of the mind we don't negotiate with terrorists but sometimes the only way to get peace is to sit down with some of the most evil people and try to come up with what we can do to end the bloodshed. So thank God, I pray that this peace holds.
SARA HAINES: And knowing that Hamas has no power. One thing they kept sticking on every time the ceasefires didn't work is they did not want to cede power; because they had their tunnel system and they were using their citizens as human shields and the devastation, they did not want to hand it over and then they were destroyed. They really had no choice.
But I think the speech we saw today is going to hold to account also Prime Minister Netanyahu because Donald Trump went on record saying there are things that Israel now needs to do as well. So, this deal was a compromise. Neither side got everything they wanted, but most importantly those hostages are home, aid is flooding into Gaza and Hamas has no power ever again in that area.
ANA NAVARRO: You know, I'm cautiously optimistic because we've been here before and then it's gone wrong and I pray that this time it's different. I stayed up last night until, I don't know, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning watching the first batch of hostages as they were released and I love that there was a split screen that was showing the joy of the hostages being released, but also the throngs of people from Gaza walking back, a sea of people walking back into that city that's rubble.
And you think of all the suffering, just two plus years of relentless, unending, unimaginable suffering. The families suffering, the victims suffering, the hostages suffering, the people who had to flee Gaza, the innocent ones suffering, and for what? For what purpose were these two years of such pain? So, you know, honestly let me just quote John Lennon, ‘can we please just try to give peace a chance?’
[Applause]
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think -- I think we've said it all. It's just – as a faithful person, it has been my daily prayer that there be peace there. And I remain a faithful person that this truly is the dawn of peace in the Middle East. I truly hope that this is what -- this will be a lasting, lasting peace there.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And also it's good to be able to say to people, remember the Palestinians are separate from Hamas. Remember they were not able to vote. They could not do anything. They had no rights in their country.
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