For all their claims that President Trump, conservatives, and America were bigoted and full of hate, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were just projecting their own ugliness. During Wednesday’s show, the cast flaunted their ageism, smeared a certain immigrant with lies about their status, and baselessly lashed out at pro-lifers to blame them for something the attacker admitted they didn’t know the truth of.
Despite her staunch support for then-President Biden’s run for re-election and denial of any issues with his age and obvious failing mental facilities, moderator Whoopi Goldberg suggested that President Trump was too old for the job
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But I kind of look at Trump bluster from three lenses. Is he just saying I to distract from other things so we all go crazy? Very possible. Is he just always a real estate developer who sees things as dollar signs? And third --
GOLDBERG: Or is he too old for this job?!
This wasn’t the first time Goldberg had shown her hypocrisy on the Biden/Trump age comparison.
TV judge and original cast member of The View Star Jones was filling in for Joy Behar when she whined about it being “day 16 of Trump 2.0 and it's just typical of him to throw a bunch of cray-cray up against the wall and so it distracts you from what's really going on…”
Jones then flashed some anti-Immigrant bigotry when she lashed out at Elon Musk’s leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency. She claimed he was “foreign agent” “who’s not been vetted by the United States government.”
That was a lie.
Musk had been an American citizen since 2002 and had a security clearance for many years, possibly dating back to the George W. Bush administration because of SpaceX’s contracts with the federal government. Both of these prove that he was not a “foreign agent” and had been vetted by the federal government.
“And the media is playing into it in my opinion. I mean, you're allowing foolishness to distract us from facts and what is going on,” she continued to bellyache. It used to have people stand on the corner and just be crazy at Times Square. Now, they're all over the place. Okay?”
Following a commercial break, the cast came back to discuss a Hollywood actress and her director husband being criticized on social media for using a surrogate to have their baby girl.
Without evidence, and admitting she didn’t have any, co-host Sara Haines lashed out and suggested it was pro-lifers who were leaving the nasty comments:
Having a family whatever that family looks like, it’s hard and not something that shows up on your doorstep. You to build it, make it, grow it. And I think it's so sensitive to touch into this area. People just want to love. And when you find a baby it's always interesting that the online haters, I'm curious what their bios say because for a pro-family world we live in that's all about life, you know, all the time, the second someone has it, we tear them down. So, like, we don't know why. It's none of our business. But I commend them for just saying, like, step out.
In the past, Haines has made very heinous comments about pro-lifers and how they should just die. In the days leading up to Christmas in 2023, she proclaimed it was “God’s will” that pro-lifers die rather than seek life-saving cancer treatment. She’s also asserted that pro-lifers hate mothers and the poor.
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ABC’s The View
February 5, 2025
11:06:13 a.m. Eastern(…)
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But I kind of look at Trump bluster from three lenses. Is he just saying I to distract from other things so we all go crazy? Very possible. Is he just always a real estate developer who sees things as dollar signs? And third --
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Or is he too old for this job?!
FARAH GRIFFIN: Right. Or third which could be all of the above. Is he simply starting with the most extreme version of the deal so that what he ultimately does in Gaza seems less crazy than the U.S. taking it over? I don't know which it is, but it's a terrible idea.
(…)
11:09:13 a.m. Eastern
STAR JONES: Yeah, I mean, this day 16 of Trump 2.0 and it's just typical of him to throw a bunch of cray-cray up against the wall and so it distracts you from what's really going on and the federal employees that are scared that don't know if they'll have a job, if they'll have their retirement.
[Applause]
And civil rights being diminished and human rights being diminished and –
GOLDBERG: And people knowing your business.
JONES: And people knowing your business.
GOLDBERG: Who shouldn't know your business.
JONES: Because a foreign agent has now access who’s not been vetted by the United States government.
GOLDBEGR: That’s right.
JONES: And the media is playing into it in my opinion. I mean, you're allowing foolishness to distract us from facts and what is going on.
It used to have people stand on the corner and just be crazy at Times Square. Now, they're all over the place. Okay?
(…)
11:15:10 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: Welcome back. Emily in Paris star Emily Collins and her director husband Charlie McDowell recently welcomed her first child. And he’s responding to criticism about the couple using a surrogate. He posted that, ‘It's okay not to know why someone might need a surrogate to have a child regardless of what you assume and it's okay to spend less time spewing hateful words into the world especially in regard to a beautiful baby girl who has brought a lot of love into people's lives.’
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: You know.
[Applause]
People criticizing people's personal choices. What – What is the point?
SARA HAINES: Having a family whatever that family looks like, it’s hard and not something that shows up on your doorstep. You to build it, make it, grow it. And I think it's so sensitive to touch into this area. People just want to love. And when you find a baby it's always interesting that the online haters, I'm curious what their bios say because for a pro-family world we live in that's all about life, you know, all the time, the second someone has it, we tear them down.
So, like, we don't know why. It's none of our business. But I commend them for just saying, like, step out.
(…)
