Joy Behar: Trump Incited Threats With ‘Traitor’ Chide, But She Used It Against Him

The liberal loons of ABC News’s The View were once again up in arms against President Trump, during Monday’s episode. This time they were upset that Trump had substituted in “Traitor” as a nickname when condemning Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). They suggested that Trump was inciting violence by invoking the term, but the kicker was that The View had previously accused Trump and Republican senators of being “traitors” to America.

At the top of the segment, fill-in moderator Joy Behar whined that Trump “has been tearing into her on social media, calling her Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene and even used her recent appearance on The View as proof she has gone far left.”

“He called me a traitor, and that is -- that is so extremely wrong, and those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger,” Greene said in a soundbite they shared from CNN.

Behar clutched her pearls and suggested he was responsible for what people purportedly could possibly send her: “He likes to say things like that and putting the fear of God in her is not a very nice thing at all. I mean. Now, because people on his team are now sending her threats, it is really disgraceful. Oh, my God.”

 

 

Co-host Sunny Hostin agreed and said they were victims of it too:

HOSTIN: I'm surprised he is saying nobody cares about her because I'm pretty sure his base is sending her the death threats and the nasty letters.

BEHAR: Well, who else?

HOSTIN: Same things that many of us have been subjected to.

Later in the segment, Behar insisted that Trump had Greene scared for her life. “She’s scared of him and for good reason!” she proclaimed. “But she just said that when he called her ‘Marjorie Traitor Greene’ she started getting death threats, so she’s scared of him.”

 

 

If Behar thought the use of “traitor” to mock Greene had incited threats, then she was guilty of the same thing.

In October of 2024, after the two assassination attempts on Trump, Behar accused Trump along with then-Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Lindsey Graham of being “traitors”:

And by the way, the Kremlin has confirmed that he sent the COVID tests to the Kremlin when Americans were in need of the COVID tests. Now, that is – I believe – that is the definition of a traitor. Am I wrong?

(…)

He wants Trump to win, that's why. That’s why a lot of stuff you see online is coming from Russia. By the way, does this make Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio at least step up to the plate and say maybe we're dealing with a traitor and maybe that makes us traitors?

 

 

Back on Monday, fake Republican co-host Ana Navarro backed up Behar’s suggestion that Greene had reason to fear for her life. “I can attest to this. When Donald Trump attacks you, it’s like the Gates of Hell open up and every little demon goes through them and comes at you,” she lashed out at her critics.

In other uses of rhetoric from The View that could incite violence, Behar claimed Trump was thinking like Mussolini and could end up “hung” like him. Behar said Trump was a “menace to the planet” and it’s future. Usual moderator Whoopi Goldberg demanded viewers not think of Trump as human.

Collectively, they’ve claimed three times (so far) this year that Trump stole the 2024 presidential election, and repeatedly insisted he’s going to steal every upcoming election and use the National Guard to do it.

The View has long been a home for inciting rhetoric, including an open call for the “murder” of pro-lifers.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
November 17, 2025
11:19:04 a.m. Eastern

JOY BEHAR: Marjorie Taylor Greene. She was here the other – last week. Anyway, she’s in the middle of a very public breakup with Trump. He has been tearing into her on social media, calling her Marjorie “Traitor” Greene and even used her recent appearance on The View as proof she has gone far left. Yesterday she told CNN the impact it has been having on her. Watch.

[Cuts to video]

REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): He called me a traitor, and that is -- that is so extremely wrong, and those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.

(…)

11:20:08 a.m. Eastern

BEHAR: He likes to say things like that and putting the fear of God in her is not a very nice thing at all. I mean. Now, because people on his team are now sending her threats, it is really disgraceful. Oh, my God.

SUNNY HOSTIN: I'm surprised he is saying nobody cares about her because I'm pretty sure his base is sending her the death threats and the nasty letters.

BEHAR: Well, who else?

HOSTIN: Same things that many of us have been subjected to.

(…)

11:21:29 a.m. Eastern

SARA HAINES:  Big moment in life can change you, I would say. And on the heels of, she mentions Charlie Kirk and the assassination. I never watched that. One, it is terrible enough not having seen the video but a lot of people did. And she said seeing this and knowing what time we are living in, it’s time to go back, you know, to not that level of rhetoric. I miss the good old days. The bottom line is no one in this country hates this country. No one is trying to destroy it or – At the end the day these people --

BEHAR: How do you know that?

HAINES: Because I would argue that the people doing it actually have their own mission and a different way of getting there. I don't think people are sitting --

HOSTIN: You’re not referring to domestic terrorists or anything like that?

HAINES: Extreme things to everything, but I’m saying just because someone falls on the other side of the political spectrum does not mean they're trying to burn down the house down. They actually believe in what they’re saying and have a different way of getting there. With exceptions.

HOSTIN: We also don't know these are Trump's people, right, that are attacking her. She could be getting attacked from all over the place.

HAINES: We have seen Pelosi attacked, but we’ve seen the right get attacked. But my point here is: you should be able to have a beer with someone you disagree with at the end of is day.

BEHAR: But those days are – that ship has sailed.

HAISNE: I believe that it has to come back.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But I’d also remind people. When Marjorie Taylor Greene sat at this table, she still referred to President Trump as her favorite president of her lifetime.

HOSTIN: She sure did.

[Crosstalk]

BEHAR: She’s scared of him and for good reason!

FARAH GRIFFIN: I don’t think that’s true.

BEHAR: Oh come on.

FARAH GRIFFIN: I think she is with him with the majority of his policies, but I believe her fundamentally on two things. I think that she genuinely cares about the Epstein issue. I think that, for her, it wasn’t just about getting elected and getting retweets. She wants justice for women. And I believe for her on healthcare because her family and her constituents personally saw their premiums skyrocket.

BEHAR: But she just said that when he called her “Marjorie Traitor Greene” she started getting death threats, so she’s scared of him.

FARAH GRIFFIN: Oh, I agree. But I do think she still supports him on most things. That’s my point though.

[Crosstalk]

BEHAR: And if she doesn’t it just gets worse.

ANA NAVARRO: Yeah. But listen, the fact that – and it is absolutely true. You know, I can attest to this. When Donald Trump attacks you, it’s like the Gates of Hell open up and every little demon goes through them and comes at you. So yeah, that part is true.

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