The U.S. strikes on Iran had sent The View’s stupidity into overdrive. After claiming earlier in the week that President Trump started the conflict to distract from the search for Nancy Guthrie, the ABC News hosts kicked off Wednesday’s episode suggesting that all wars were “endless.” Additionally, co-host Sunny Hostin was shouting that Republicans were hypocrites because they weren’t “outranged” that the U.S. military may have accidentally hit a school, when they would denounce Iran for the same.
The suggestion about the nature of wars came at the top of the show. Pushing the narrative that Trump had “betrayed” and “lied” to his supporters by taking out another enemy of America, The View played a soundbite of podcaster Joe Rogan (who they’d previously denounced) suggesting all wars were “endless” and vocally agreeing with him:
ROGAN: This seems so insane based on what he ran on. I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed. Right? He ran on no more wars and these stupid senseless wars and then we have one that we can't even really clearly define why we did it.
GUEST: Well, but he said he's against endless wars.
ROGAN: Listen, man, they're all endless.
[Cuts back to live]
JOY BEHAR: That's right.
SUNNY HOSTIN: That's right.
What a brainless thing to suggest. The View liked to invoke WWII against Trump a lot, is that still going? Man, the Romans have really been putting up a stiff resistance to the Visigoths for the last 2,400-or-so years. America was celebrating 250 years in 2026, hopefully the revolution will wrap up any day now.
The View agrees with the suggestion that ALL wars are "endless." pic.twitter.com/33xd7E124S
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 11, 2026
“Do you think MAGA supporters will now admit that they have been lied to? Will they be able to say it?” chided moderator Whoopi Goldberg. “I don't think MAGA supporters will,” added pretend independent Sara Haines.
“And so I don't think you're going to see it because as Trump said himself, I am MAGA. Wherever he goes, the partisanship of so many will just follow. It doesn't even matter,” Haines went on to whine.
The View was on the inverse side of the partisan bandwagon they were whining about. No matter what Trump was for, they’d be against.
Looking to spew as much anti-American and anti-military hate as she could, co-host Sunny Hostin claimed America “murdered” Iranian schoolgirls, and was glad because Democrats would get allies against Trump:
What I am surprised -- what I do think, though, is with this war in Iran, I do think that is going to change the tide for people that are truly conservative Republicans, people that are truly independent and certainly, you know, the Democrats are already on the other side, because now you have 165 girls that were murdered in Iran while they were at school, and there has been this shifting explanation.
As a former federal prosecutor, Hostin knew ‘murder’ required intent.
Sunny Hostin claims the U.S. intentionally "murdered" Iranian school girls.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 11, 2026
She suggests conservatives are hypocrites because they would be outraged if Iran blew up the families of soldiers living on military bases in America.
Doesn't note Iran intentionally targets civilians. pic.twitter.com/AYwLjezQZ7
Hostin also seemed glad that America could be blamed for an accidental tragedy:
HOSTIN: Now it turns out that it was likely an American Tomahawk missile that struck down those girls and killed those girls, and they --
BEHAR: By mistake.
HOSTIN: By mistake. Because they were working off old intelligence. It was ten years ago that that school was part of this military base.
She went on to accuse conservatives of being hypocrites for not being “outraged” at the accident when they would be irate over Iran bombing the families of service members living on base:
HOSTIN: And so think about our families, think about our soldiers. Their children live on the bases with them. Their families live on the bases with them. If that happened here, we would all be outraged. Where are the Republicans that talking about family values and children? Where are they?
BEHAR: They should be concerned about those children [gestures to signify Iranian children].
HOSTIN: That’s my point, they should be outraged about those kids!
Of course, there was no honest delineation between how America didn’t intentionally bomb civilians and Iran 100 percent did.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
March 11, 2026
11:03:22 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOE ROGAN: This seems so insane based on what he ran on. I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed. Right? He ran on no more wars and these stupid senseless wars and then we have one that we can't even really clearly define why we did it.
GUEST: Well, but he said he's against endless wars.
ROGAN: Listen, man, they're all endless.
[Cuts back to live]
JOY BEHAR: That's right.
SUNNY HOSTIN: That's right.
[Applause]
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So will -- do you think MAGA supporters will now admit that they have been lied to? Will they be able to say it?
SARA HAINES: I don't think MAGA supporters will.
(…)
11:04:42 a.m. Eastern
HAINES: And so I don't think you're going to see it because as Trump said himself, I am MAGA. Wherever he goes, the partisanship of so many will just follow. It doesn't even matter.
BEHER: What I think is that, you know, a lot of these people you notice that they seem to be turning on him and say that they've been betrayed by him, but actually why can't you just admit you were wrong? When the guy -- when the guy --
[Applause]
hold on, when the guy made fun of a disabled veteran, when the guy said he could grab women by their genitalia, when the guy said that Obama was not born in this country, lying about that, why are you now saying you're betrayed? You didn't see then so what are you being betrayed about?
SHERYL UNDERWOOD: Because, Joy, it was about everybody else but me and what's happening now is validation.
(…)
11:06:16 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: I got to tell you, I don't know that his base, his core base is going to change, because if you look at some of the numbers and some of the polling, 90 percent of his base agrees with what he's doing.
What I am surprised -- what I do think, though, is with this war in Iran, I do think that is going to change the tide for people that are truly conservative Republicans, people that are truly independent and certainly, you know, the Democrats are already on the other side, because now you have 165 girls that were murdered in Iran while they were at school, and there has been this shifting explanation.
One explanation was, well, Iran must have shot their own people. Their own school. Then another explanation was, well, it was right next to an Iranian military base, and so maybe they were using the students as cover. Now it turns out that it was likely an American Tomahawk missile that struck down those girls and killed those girls, and they --
BEHAR: By mistake.
HOSTIN: By mistake. Because they were working off old intelligence. It was ten years ago that that school was part of this military base.
And so think about our families, think about our soldiers. Their children live on the bases with them. Their families live on the bases with them. If that happened here, we would all be outraged. Where are the Republicans that talking about family values and children? Where are they?
BEHAR: They should be concerned about those children [gestures to signify Iranian children].
HOSTIN: That’s my point, they should be outraged about those kids!
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: You know, I don't -- I don't -- I'm not sure what his base is or who they are or what they do.
(…)
