Two of The View’s multimillionaires demanded that Americans who could not afford their prescription medications continue to struggle. ABC News co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin tried to scare them away from using TrumpRX to score heavily discounted medications. They claimed, without evidence, that people who took the medications were going to die and then insisted that President Trump was going to take a cut of the sale (or employ some other method to enrich himself). They even got into a screaming match with their co-hosts over it.
After playing a soundbite of Trump and liberal billionaire Mark Cuban launching the program, Behar lashed out. “First of all, you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas,” Behar snapped at Cuban. “Correct! Correct!” Hostin shrieked in agreement.
Without evidence, Behar started shouting about how they were supposedly Trump-branded drugs and that they were going to kill everyone: “And I like Mark Cuban. I've always like the him but this is a mistake and once Trump puts his name on prescriptions we're all going to die!”
Hostin would later back up Behar’s suggestion that the drugs were unsafe, asserting, “There could be short cuts involved.” “Anything he touches is tainted! I don’t trust it!” she also screeched.
“The drugs don't actually have his name. They're existing drugs. It’s a marketplace for them,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin tried to shout back. “Whatever! If he's involved with it,” Behar wrote it off.
Farah Griffin noted that TrumpRX had one of her IVF medications, Follistim at a tenth the price she had paid for it. “The average family, one third of American families cut back on essential food and utilities to be able to cover their prescription drug costs. You're not going to convince me that just because Trump’s involved we should be like ‘screw it, don’t bring down prescription drug costs,’” she argued.
ABC News co-host Joy Behar claims "we're all going to die" because Trump wants to lower drug prices with TrumpRX. She even lashes out at Mark Cuban for getting involved.
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She shouts at her co-hosts who support lowering drug costs. pic.twitter.com/Wi3SNqU41J
Behar and Hostin then teamed up to tell people they shouldn’t get cheaper medications from TrumpRX because Trump was supposedly getting rich from it:
BEHAR: If he's going to take a profit out of it, don’t take it!
HOSTIN: Correct! I completely agree with that!
FARAH GRIFFIN: No! Americans are struggling!
HOSTIN: I agree with you, Joy! He is a failed businessman. And if you heard what he said, he said, we both want to make people wealthy, he didn't say healthy.
FARAH GRIFFIN: So I pay ten times more for my medication?
HOSTIN: He said wealthy which means to me that there's something in it for him! This is not a well-intentioned person!
Again, they provided no evidence, only vibes.
“He is not a well-intentioned person. He is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart! He's doing this to make money!” Hostin screamed through her hoarse voice. “You guys are naïve!” Behar attacked Farah Griffin and co-host Sara Haines, who was all for the program.
“The people literally suffering illnesses and cannot pay for their medicine, I can't think of a sicker business model! Bring down the prices and if you get results on this, call it Donald Trump medicine!” Haines shouted.
Behar and Hostin, multimillionaires who didn’t have an issue paying for their medications, took turns bashing their co-hosts for wanting people to use the program just because Trump was president:
BEHAR: You are so naïve, the two of you, wow!
HOSTIN: The two of you are so naïve!
BEHAR: So naïve!
Behar literally cackled at her attack, going so far as to claim the program didn’t even exist at all. “Don't believe anything he says Alyssa!” she sneered. “It’s real! Go and literally look it up! It is right there,” Farah Griffin shouted back, pointing to the screen behind Behar showing the literal website.
This was an instance where The View’s unhinged Trump-hate could get people hurt. There’s a strong possibility that people would put themselves though more financial hardship because they believed Behar and Hostin’s disinformation that the program was fake or distributing tainted medications. Moreover, they didn’t have to worry about it since they didn’t need the program and could afford their drugs just fine.
ABC News didn’t respond to NewsBusters’ request for comment asking the evidence they had of their claims.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
May 19, 2026
11:17:04 a.m.WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And, hey, listen to this one, billionaire Mark Cuban was a harsh critic of MAGA who campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 but yesterday he was with you-know-who touting their partnership to expand generic drug coverage. Take a look.
[Cuts to video]
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I want to thank the leaders of several major pharmacies and generic drugmakers who are partnering with us on this effort including the co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs, Mark Cuban. Mark, thank you very much. Mark. Looking good, Mark. Come here, Mark. Nice to be with you.
MARK CUBAN: Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.
TRUMP: We have the same thing. One thing in common. We want to make people better and keep them wealthy, right?
[Transition]
CUBAN: I think other than you I've been the biggest proponent of Trumprx.com and the reason for that is because Republicans want cheaper drugs, independents want cheaper drugs, Democrats want cheaper drugs and together, I think we're going to do something special.
[Cuts back to live]
GOLDBERG: Okay.
JOY BEHAR: First of all, you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Correct! Correct!
[Applause]
BEHAR: And I like Mark Cuban. I've always like the him but this is a mistake and once Trump puts his name on prescriptions we're all going to die! Okay? He put his name on the Trump shuttle, the Trump vodka, the Trump University
HOSTIN: And Trump steaks too.
BEHAR: - and my favorite, the casinos, they all went bankrupt. Do not go there Mark.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The drugs don't actually have his name. They're existing drugs.
BEHAR: Whatever!
FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s a marketplace for them.
BEHAR: If he's involved with it.
FARAH GRIFFIN: No.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: Wait a second.
FARAH GRIFFIN: A medication I had to take for IVF is a tenth of the price on TrumpRX. I don’t - whatever, it's tacky that his name is on it. Mark Cuban has dedicated his life to bringing down prescription drug costs.
BEHAR: Good.
FARAH GRIFFIN: The average family, one third of American families cut back on essential food and utilities to be able to cover their prescription drug costs. You're not going to convince me that just because Trump’s involved we should be like “screw it, don’t bring down prescription drug costs.”
BEHAR: If he's going to take a profit out of it, don’t take it!
HOSTIN: Correct! I completely agree with that!
FARAH GRIFFIN: No! Americans are struggling!
HOSTIN: I agree with you, Joy! He is a failed businessman. And if you heard what he said, he said, we both want to make people wealthy, he didn't say healthy.
FARAH GRIFFIN: So I pay ten times more for my medication?
HOSTIN: He said wealthy which means to me that there's something in it for him! This is not a well-intentioned person!
[Crosstalk]
SARA HAINES: The presidency is something he cashes in, Sunny, but what this does is it helps American people.
HOSTIN: No, Sara! He is not a well-intentioned person. He is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart! He's doing this to make money!
BEHAR: You Guys are naïve!
FARAH GRIFFIN: No one thinks he’s doing this out of the goodness of his heart.
HAINES: Joy, we're the wealthiest country and we pay the most for drugs.
HOSTIN: There could be short cuts involved.
HAINES: The people literally suffering illnesses and cannot pay for their medicine, I can't think of a sicker business model! Bring down the prices and if you get results on this, call it Donald Trump medicine!
BEHAR (interrupting): There are countries -
HAINES: I don't care what you call it!
BEHAR: Excuse me! There are countries all over this world - especially in Scandinavia - that have national health insurance.
HOSTIN: Correct.
BEHAR: They do not want to have that. That would bring down the cost of drugs and healthcare but they don't want that. They call that socialism.
[Crosstalk]
HAINES: They have concepts of a plan Joy, and right now this is a plan, I’m going to go with it.
BEHAR: You are so naïve, the two of you, wow!
HOSTIN: The two of you are so naïve!
BEHAR: So naïve!
[Crosstalk]
[Behar literally cackles in the background]
FARAH GRIFFIN: If I may speak! So, you're saying in the meantime, while he remains in office for the next two years people should not have access to cheaper drugs because Trump put his name on it?
BEHAR: They should!
HOSTIN: Anything he touches is tainted! I don’t trust it!
FARAH GRIFFIN: Today, I can literally order a prescription drug I need for a tenth of the cost because of this and it's not --
BEHAR: Don't believe anything he says Alyssa!
FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s real! Go and literally look it up! It is right there. I can get Follistim!
(…)
