‘We’re Done Talking About It’: The View Shouts Down Talk of Trump Accounts

Nicholas Fondacaro
March 19th, 2026 2:53 PM

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The founding premise of The View was to bring women together from various backgrounds to provide relatable voices to discuss contemporary topics. The View of today had lost sight of that, with none of the co-hosts being able to relate to average Americans who didn’t make the salary of network news stars. That was the reason why none of the permanent co-hosts wanted to discuss Trump Accounts and sneered at Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) for having worked blue-collar jobs in his life.

Guest co-host and CNBC anchor Sara Eisen presented The View with the first real conversation about Trump Accounts, and how transformative they could be for average and lower-income Americans.

But, the oldest of The View crones, co-host Joy Behar repeatedly kept making random noises to drown out Eisen, before looking to moderator Whoopi Goldberg to cut her off. Behar then proceeded to seemingly complain that the accounts weren’t a good thing because they didn’t invest in solar and wind energy:

EISEN: You have to separate the character from the policies.

BEHAR: Uh-huh.

EISEN: And there are policies that this administration has done.

BEHAR: All right.

EISEN: Do you know about Trump accounts?

HAINES: Yes.

EISEN: It's really interesting -

BEHAR: You know -

EISEN: - for every baby born in this country - every baby, no matter what income level, now qualifies for a thousand dollars in the S&P that they can hold until they're 18.

GOLDBERG: Okay.

EISEN: That is a transformational policy

BEHAR (interrupting): You know, I would like to say something.

GOLDBERG: Yes. Go ahead. Go ahead. Let Joy --

EISEN: -to be part of the system.

BEHAR: What disappoints me about this entire conversation is that there's no effort put into solar energy. The sun is there.

 

 

After rambling about why President Trump was against wind power, in her mind, Behar delved into conspiracy theories about Trump and oil. “That would be one of the solutions to this problem. We depend [sic] on foreign oil then we bomb the counties that supply it. There's something crazy going on that could be solved,” she proclaimed.

Pretend independent Sara Haines jumped in to chide the accounts because, “The problem is those policies won't benefit anyone in the near term and people are really hurting.”

 

 

Goldberg, a multimillionaire, refused to acknowledge how helpful the money would for people nowhere near as well off as she was. She also seemingly tried to argue that it was a bad idea because some kids wouldn’t live to receive the money. Eisen did make a good attempt to get the information out to the viewers:

GOLDBERG: The kicker to this, as we go, I will also remind folks that, yes, it's good to put money away in a bank but if you don't take care of those kids after they're born when -- a thousand dollars in a bank account today, there's no guarantee -- people don't have the money they thought they put away.

EISEN: No, but it's a step to bringing them into the system.

GOLDBERG (talking over): But it’s not. It’s not.

EISEN: You know, the child tax credit became permanent under this president’s tax legislation.

“I'm sorry. For me and until he realizes how this affects all of us as citizens, it's not enough. But we're done talking about it,” Goldberg demanded.

 

 

Additionally, earlier in the show, Behar and co-host Sunny Hostin were disgusted that Mullin had worked blue-collar and other messy jobs before going to Congress:

HOSTIN: This man had been in Congress and so he had governmental experience. He was also a talk show host. He was a construction worker.

BEHAR: Another one?

HOSTIN: He was also a professional MMA fighter.

SARA EISEN: And a plumber, I think

HOSTIN: And a plumber.

“So with all of this, they want a plumber and a talk show host to fix this! Is that what I'm hearing!” Behar decried. “I don’t know why we don’t have the job.”

 

 

Hostin also shouted that ICE was “a lawless band of masked bandits” and Mullin was too much of a “fighter” and “aggressive” to head the Department of Homeland Security.

Of course, what they weren’t mentioning was the fact that after he took over for his father’s plumbing business, he turned it into a multimillion dollar enterprise.

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

ABC’s The View
March 19, 2026
11:06:21 a.m. Eastern

(…)

SUNNY HOSTIN: This man had been in Congress and so he had governmental experience. He was also a talk show host. He was a construction worker.

JOY BEHAR: Another one?

HOSTIN: He was also a professional MMA fighter.

SARA EISEN: And a plumber, I think

HOSTIN: And a plumber. I just don't think that even with his government experience someone with that sort of fighter mentality, who has been so aggressive should be heading a lawless band of masked bandits! I just don't think that makes a lot of sense!

[Applause]

They should’ve come up with someone better.

(…)

11:09:05 a.m. Eastern

EISEN: TSA agents should not be political pawns in the congressional fight.

BEHAR: And so with all of this --

[Crosstalk]

BEHAR: So with all of this, they want a plumber and a talk show host to fix this! Is that what I'm hearing!

HOSTIN: And an MMA fighter.

GOLDBERG: You know, what also could be helpful is since -

BEHAR: I don’t know why we don’t have the job.

(…)

11:27:13 a.m. Eastern

EISEN: You have to separate the character from the policies.

BEHAR: Uh-huh.

EISEN: And there are policies that this administration has done.

BEHAR: All right.

EISEN: Do you know about Trump accounts?

HAINES: Yes.

EISEN: It's really interesting -

BEHAR: You know -

EISEN: - for every baby born in this country - every baby, no matter what income level, now qualifies for a thousand dollars in the S&P that they can hold until they're 18.

GOLDBERG: Okay.

EISEN: That is a transformational policy

BEHAR (interrupting): You know, I would like to say something.

GOLDBERG: Yes. Go ahead. Go ahead. Let Joy --

EISEN: -to be part of the system.

BEHAR: What disappoints me about this entire conversation is that there's no effort put into solar energy. The sun is there. There's not a lot of money to be made maybe and that's why -- I mean Trump says windmills,’ I never understood wind,’ he goes.

HOSTIN: What did he say?

BEHAR: ‘I never understood wind. They're noisy.’ Windmills. ‘They kill birds. You want to see a dead -- a bird graveyard, look under a windmill.’ See, I think he's worried more about his hair than anything else here, but --

[Applause]

[Crosstalk]

BEHAR: That would be one of the solutions to this problem. We depend [sic] on foreign oil then we bomb the counties that supply it.

GOLDBERG: For the rest of the world.

BEHAR: There's something crazy going on that could be solved.

SARA HAINES: You were raising the point about it's a lack of empathy and that there are these policies he's making. The problem is those policies won't benefit anyone in the near term and people are really hurting.

I believe a government's first priority is to protect its citizens but that's not just at borders. That's also their paychecks. It's making sure they can get to work. So, I find that whereas they're hyper focused on certain parts, they're not protecting -- there's been no movement on healthcare. They were promised if the Democrats conceded and put the budget through last time that the Republicans said we're going to get to work. We're going to come up with something. It's March 15th. Nothing's coming.

HOSTIN: And those subsidies expired in December. And by the way, I think millions and millions and millions of Americans no longer have health insurance. They opted out because they couldn't afford it because their premiums doubled. That's what's happening.

[Crosstalk]

GOLDBERG: The kicker to this, as we go, I will also remind folks that, yes, it's good to put money away in a bank but if you don't take care of those kids after they're born when -- a thousand dollars in a bank account today, there's no guarantee -- people don't have the money they thought they put away.

EISEN: No, but it's a step to bringing them into the system.

GOLDBERG (talking over): But it’s not. It’s not.

EISEN: You know, the child tax credit became permanent under this president’s tax legislation.

GOLDBERG (talking over): I'm sorry. For me and until he realizes how this affects all of us as citizens, it's not enough. But we're done talking about it. We got to go. We'll be right back.

EISEN: I got a lot more.

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