The View: Trump 'Trying to Kill Us,’ Fired 'All the Women' in the Administration

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 23rd, 2026 2:07 PM

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With The View giving up the practice of issuing legal notes last year, they’ve effectively let themselves off the leash to make up and push whatever ridiculous reality they wanted. On Thursday’s episode, ABC News co-host Joy Behar suggested that President Trump was trying to kill everyone. Meanwhile, moderator Whoopi Goldberg was busy suggesting that Trump had fired “all the women” from his administration.

During a segment where they once again decried Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Behar suggested that his appointment and other Trump actions gave her the impression Trump wanted everyone dead:

BEHAR: Sometimes I feel like they're trying to kill us.

GOLDBERG: You think?

BEHAR: Yeah. I mean, you got - you know, Trump just vetoed anything that has to do with climate change that would alleviate the problem. And we can see it everywhere that the Earth is in a lot of trouble.

 

 

Behar also bashed Kennedy for his past battles with addition, seemingly arguing that he wasn’t allowed to come back from it. “But here you've got a guy who is in charge of our health, who is a former heroin addict … And that snorted cocaine off of a toilet seat. This is who is in charge of your health, America. Do not put up with this! We're in a lot of trouble!” she rhetorically sneered.

Giving an unintended example of someone she felt did deserve grace, later in the show Behar downplayed the child molestation allegations against deceases pop star Michael Jackson. “Nobody's perfect. [Composer Richard] Wagner was a Nazi, they still listen to his music,” she declared.

 

 

Besides giving a free pass to an accused pedophile and attacking a former addict, Behar’s invocation of German composer Richard Wagner was also factually false. Wagner died in 1883, nearly 40 years before the Nazi Party was founded in 1920. Adolf Hitler was indeed a fan of Wagner and made his music a fixture in German culture, Wagner should not be abled a Nazi because what a fan of his did decades after his passing.

Back in the Kennedy minute-of-hate segment, Goldberg demanded that he’d be fired. Her argument hinged on the lie that Trump had fired all the women he had hired to fill out his administration:

HOSTIN: And he did and now he's in a position that he’s so deeply unqualified for and now Senator Cassidy is questioning him, but to what avail? I think we're stuck with this guy.

BEHAR: No. No.

GOLDBERG: No. Listen, they're getting rid of people left and right. Get rid of some of the men. You got rid of all the women. Get rid of some of the men.

 

 

Again, that’s not true. Just because Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, and Lori Chavez-DeRemer had left the administration, it didn’t mean Trump had fired “all” the women.

It;s worth the reminder that ABC News regards The View as a news program. That’s why it’s important for NewsBusters to put a spotlight on the crazy things they say. ABC is laundering nonsense and propaganda through them.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
April 23, 2026
11:06:50 a.m. Eastern

(…)

WHOOPI GOLDBERG [speaking to camera with a message for Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)]: I'm really mad at you too. I’m really made at you

JOY BEHAR: Sometimes I feel like they're trying to kill us.

GOLDBERG: You think?

BEHAR: Yeah. I mean, you got - you know, Trump just vetoed anything that has to do with climate change that would alleviate the problem. And we can see it everywhere that the Earth is in a lot of trouble.

But here you've got a guy who is in charge of our health, who is a former heroin addict, a -- he swam in sewage. Who does that?! Who does that?! And that snorted cocaine off of a toilet seat. This is who is in charge of your health, America. Do not put up with this! We're in a lot of trouble! Don't we -- don't people see that?!

(…)

11:09:25 a.m. Eastern

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: RFK lied to him. He effectively lied to him.

[Crosstalk]

SARA HAINES: He said he wasn't going to mess with the vaccinations.

SUNNY HOSTIN: And he did and now he's in a position that he’s so deeply unqualified for and now Senator Cassidy is questioning him, but to what avail? I think we're stuck with this guy.

BEHAR: No. No.

GOLDBERG: No. Listen, they're getting rid of people left and right. Get rid of some of the men. You got rid of all the women. Get rid of some of the men.

[Applause]

FARAH GRIFFIN: Very quickly though. This week, the administration appointed a highly qualified director of the CDC.

GOLDBERG: Yes.

HOSTIN: Dr. Erica Schwartz.

FARAH GRIFFIN: I was a little bit surprised.

HOSTIN: And I wonder if she's going to last.

FARAH GRIFFIN: Let's confirm somebody who’s credentialed and ready to do the job.

HOSTIN: She's actually a doctor.

GOLDBERG: You know, wouldn’t that be something? Somebody who actually knew the job.

BEHAR: How about a president like that?

GOLDBERG: What a concept? We'll be right back.

(…)

11:18:32 a.m. Eastern

HOSTIN: By the way, Nia Long, that was the actress who plays Katherine Jackson, she sort of intimated that there may be a sequel and that that sequel may be able to address that part of his life. And so, I think people can see this movie and feel comfortable.

BEHAR: Nobody's perfect. Wagner was a Nazi, they still listen to his music.

(…)

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