The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View seemed to be having a rough week and were in a pretty sour mood during Tuesday’s episode. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg was so irked by Republicans calling out the Biden administration’s bad economy that she seemed to suggest Republicans weren’t people. The lashing out also came from their Democratic guest Senator Elissa Slotkin (MI), who compared America to “angry” suicidal teenagers without “fully form[ed] brains.”
Noting the stock market’s recent losses, Goldberg decried how “some MAGA folks are blaming on the Biden economy.”
She pushed the long debunked argument that President Biden was responsible for the creation of “16.6 million jobs,” when in reality they were people finally going back to work after government lifted lockdowns. She also boasted that the “gross domestic product grew 12.6;” but never explained 12.6-what. “They are the only administration in history to have created jobs every single month,” she claimed, omitting the Biden recession.
“You came in to a very robust [economy]” she screeched at Trump through the camera. It was then she let slip her mental separation of people and Republicans. The audience and faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin picked up on it and gave it a laugh and weak push back:
GOLDBERG: So, how long do you think people gunna -- and not just people but even Republicans. What do I think?
No, I didn't –
FARAH GRIFFIN: [Laughter] They are people.
“I didn't mean it like that,” Goldberg defended herself. “But I didn't want to not include Republicans because we're starting to hear Republicans say, ‘wait, what is going on?’”
Several minutes later, and in reaction to an interview question of co-host Sunny Hostin about Democrats needing to be more, freshman Senator Slotkin (who Democrats elevated to deliver their rebuttal to Trump’s address to Congress last week) compared America to an emotional, suicidal teenager with an underdeveloped brain that Democrats were trying to keep alive.
“These are, like, our angry teenage years,” she said. “We are going through this push and pull where we're happy, we're sad, we want this, we want that. And what do you do when you have a teenager who’s threatening themselves and others, you just try to get them through this period alive so, that their brain can fully form…”
Behar quipped about Slotkin possibly talking about Trump, but the Senator doubled down on it being America:
BEHAR: Are you talking about Trump?
SLOTKIN: No, I'm talks about our country. We're a pendulum swinging. We are a pendulum swinging.
Slotkin was who Farah Griffin previously praised as the Democrat with the right message for the party post-address.
It would have been nice if Farah Griffin would have grilled Slotkin on how her underdeveloped-teenage-brain analogy played with the Democratic Party’s support transiting kids and permanently mutilating their bodies with so-called “gender affirming” surgery. But she’s not actually a Republican or conservative; she probably wanted to be seen as a person in Goldberg’s eyes.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
March 11, 2025
11:03:20 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: This helped send the market into freefall yesterday, which some MAGA folks are blaming on the Biden economy.
JOY BEHAR: Oh boy.
GOLDBERG: So, let me just remind you about the Biden economy, okay? The economy added 16.6 million jobs and gross domestic product grew 12.6. They are the only administration in history to have created jobs every single month.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes.
GOLDBERG: They achieved –
[Applause]
Wait, wait.
But wait, there's more! They achieved the lowest average unemployment in 50 years.
BEHAR: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Wealth adjusted for inflation rose a record 37 percent for the median American household and Americans filed a record 21 million new small business applications, the most in any presidential administration.
You came in to a very robust [economy] -- there were issues. There's always going to be issues but you can't blame all what's happening on him.
HOSTIN: No.
GOLDBERG: So, how long do you think people gunna -- and not just people but even Republicans. What do I think?
No, I didn't.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: [Laughter] They are people.
GOLDBERG: I didn't mean it like that. But I didn't want to not include Republicans because we're starting to hear Republicans say, ‘wait, what is going on?’
(…)
11:30:56 a.m. Eastern
SEN. ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI): I think there is a feeling in the country. And I often say this, you know, we're about to turn 250 years old. Right? We're still pretty young for a country. These are, like, our angry teenage years. Right? We are going through this push and pull where we're happy, we're sad, we want this, we want that. And what do you do when you have a teenager who’s threatening themselves and others, you just try to get them through this period alive. So, that their brain can fully form and you can come back to kind of what --
BEHAR: Are you talking about Trump?
SLOTKIN: No, I'm talks about our country. We're a pendulum swinging.
[Laughter]
We are a pendulum swinging. I don't think there’s a single American who feels like this is normal.
(…)
