The two cast members of ABC’s The View old enough have protested American veterans returning from Vietnam, moderator Whoopi Goldberg (70) and Joy Behar (83) tapped into that anti-military hatred during Wednesday’s episode. While the later was adamant that the U.S. military had “accomplished” nothing in Iran, the former suggested all they were doing was dying and lectured Secretary of War Pete Hegseth about what it meant to be a soldier, without ever serving herself.
“What have they accomplished over there? Explain to me,” Behar bitterly demanded of fake Republican guest co-host Abby Huntsman, who was filling in for Alyssa Farah Griffin while she was on maternity leave.
Unfortunately, as a weak Republican, Huntsman was unable to actually articulate the achievements of America’s military over the IRGC and flailed around:
HUNTSMAN: Our military?
BEHAR: In Iran.
HUNTSMAN: I think we've got the best military in the world. I think they do what they're told -
SUNNY HOSTIN: What have they accomplished so far in Iran?
BEHAR: What have they accomplished in Iran?
HUNTSMAN: What have they accomplished?
BEHAR: In Iran.
HUNTSMAN: I think any time we can deter Iran whether it's for another year for another 10 years, I think that it's win for this country.
BEHAR: Obama had a deal in place with them though . Obama had a deal and he tore it up. Trump.
“Don't make it sound like I'm against the military. I'm not,” Behar whined as she proceeded to hide behind the military service of her relatives, since she had none of her own. “My uncles, my father, they all fought. So don't make it sound like that. I'm talking about this particular -- as he calls it excursion into Iran, what have they accomplished?!”
Joy Behar suggests the U.S. military hasn't "accomplished" anything in Iran, but insists she's not against the military:
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 25, 2026
HUNTSMAN: Like, I don't want to take away from what our men and women have been doing over there because what they've accomplished is incredible and if we can… pic.twitter.com/8pFFaMhnHY
It’s worth noting that Behar once raged about how a school girl got her fired from being a teacher after she “snitched” to school officials that she was delivering anti-military screeds about Vietnam to students.
Since Huntsman floundered, here’s just some of the military’s achievements thus far:
- Completely decapitated their leadership, and the new ayatollah was reportedly in a coma and didn’t know he was the leader.
- Shattered Iran’s ability to launch missiles, they’ve gone from firing hundreds during the first days of the conflict to less than a dozen a day.
- Boosted the local marine ecology by deploying a number of artificial reefs, a.k.a. the former Iranian Navy.
- Complete air dominance over the country, our planes can fly anywhere and strike anything they want.
- Took control of their propaganda apps to deliver messages to the Iranian people.
Speaking of co-hosts of The View with no military experience, Goldberg attacked Hegseth with suggestions that he didn’t care about the lives of the soldiers serving under him, and was sending them to die because he didn’t have a plan. She even lectured him about what it meant to be a soldier.
“At this point, at this point, I want them to stop what they're doing. They are sending people in to die. They are sending people in to die and I'm surprised because Hegseth served,” Goldberg sneered. “He should know more than anybody what it takes to be a soldier in our Army. What it means when you send people in. When you send them in with a plan, it's horrific. You send them in without a plan, you willy-nilly and you're not explaining what's going on.”
Whoopi claims the administration is just "sending people in to die" "without a plan" and nothing else. Despite never serving herself, she lectures Secretary Hegseth (who did serve) about what it means "to be a solider in our Army" and claims he doesn't care about the lives of… pic.twitter.com/nUun9OJxd3
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 25, 2026
Goldberg disgustingly declared that Hegseth didn’t care about their lives: “Damnit, I rather this were in the hands of people who actually cared about them enough to say, 'I going to do everything I can for you to be not in a place where you could be killed.'”
Goldberg also baselessly suggested that the United States was just like Iran and was hiding casualty figures, essentially claiming more service members were than that what have been released:
SARA HAINES: I don't trust the feedback of President Trump, I really don't trust Iran either. Because the kind of regimes over there, they send out propaganda, they manipulate numbers of what's happening.
GOLDBERG: Kind of like we've been doing.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah. Kind of.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
Flaunting her profound ignorance of how casualty numbers are reported, Whoopi claims the U.S. is like Iran and his hiding and manipulating casualty numbers, suggesting there are more dead than has been reported. Haines falsely claims there's already mass troops on the ground:… pic.twitter.com/y4MAtppm0U
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 25, 2026
Again, the only thing Goldberg had ever served was herself at a buffet.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
March 25, 2026
11:04:45 a.m. Eastern(…)
ABBY HUNTSMAN: Like, I don't want to take away from what our men and women have been doing over there because what they've accomplished is incredible and if we can deter Iran at all, whether it be --
JOY BEHAR: What have they accomplished over there? Explain to me.
HUNTSMAN: Our military?
BEHAR: In Iran.
HUNTSMAN: I think we've got the best military in the world. I think they do what they're told -
SUNNY HOSTIN: What have they accomplished so far in Iran?
BEHAR: What have they accomplished in Iran?
HUNTSMAN: What have they accomplished?
BEHAR: In Iran.
HUNTSMAN: I think any time we can deter Iran whether it's for another year for another 10 years, I think that it's win for this country.
BEHAR: Obama had a deal in place with them though . Obama had a deal and he tore it up. Trump.
[Applause]
He did.
HOSTIN: I mean, it just seems to me -
BEHAR: What's to give except herpes?
HUNTSMAN: I think it's -- look, I think it's really easy to sit here and say what has our military accomplished? It's because of our military that we're able to sit here and have these conversations and do a show like that so whenever our military is out there --
BEHAR: Don't make it sound like I'm against the military. I'm not. My uncles, my father, they all fought. So don't make it sound like that. I'm talking about this particular -- as he calls it excursion into Iran, what have they accomplished?! So far.
HUNTSMAN: We don't know what the intelligence he got was, that's the problem. They haven't communicated that.
BEHAR: The word intelligence and him in the same sentence do not go together.
[Cheers and applause]
HUNTSMAN: Joy, what about -- okay, what about wiping out their entire leadership?
BEHAR: What, they got rid of one ayatollah. They have another one that's just as bad.
HUNTSMAN: We don't know his whereabouts. We don't know where that one is.
(…)
11:08:43 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: Regardless of what Iran is saying about whether the president has spoken to them or not, I don't trust the feedback of President Trump, I really don't trust Iran either. Because the kind of regimes over there, they send out propaganda, they manipulate numbers of what's happening.
GOLDBERG: Kind of like we've been doing.
HOSTIN: Yeah. Kind of.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
HAINES: You exaggerate success instead of failure. So, I actually don't have a lot of faith. It makes me nervous right now that now we have troops on the ground. Because when it was first, this campaign -
BEHAR Right.
HAINES: And you thought, all right let's see what happens. It's the exit plan for me.
(…)
11:09:48 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: At this point, at this point, I want them to stop what they're doing. They are sending people in to die. They are sending people in to die and I'm surprised because Hegseth served.
HOSTIN: Yes, he did.
GOLDBERG: He served. He should know what it --
HUNTSMAN: He should know better than anybody.
GOLDBERG: Yes, better than anybody, but when you listen to -
[Sees a picture of Hegseth on the screen] Stop looking so angry!
He should know more than anybody what it takes to be a soldier in our Army. What it means when you send people in. When you send them in with a plan, it's horrific. You send them in without a plan, you willy-nilly and you're not explaining what's going on.
Sunny: Correct.
GOLDBERG: Fathers, mothers, daughter, sisters, brothers, these are all our American citizens who are being asked to do this. And because, because of the way the military is, they will do what they're asked to do.
(...)
GOLDBERG: Damnit, I rather this were in the hands of people who actually cared about them enough to say, 'I going to do everything I can for you to be not in a place where you could be killed.' But, we’ll be right back.
(…)
