The View Is Happy Trump & His Cabinet 'Felt the Fear' for Their Lives, Hope for Gun Control

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 27th, 2026 2:32 PM

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The pure evil co-hosts of ABC News’s The View were openly happy that President Trump and the present cabinet officials were in fear for their lives during the assassination attempt at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner. During their Monday discussion of the attack, co-host Ana Navarro was glad the officials feared they would be killed because they finally knew what school students felt like during an active shooter. The rest of the cast provided ZERO pushback, only agreement was expressed.

Before sharing her happiness for Trump fearing his murder, Navarro falsely claimed Trump never called for unity nor for people to remain peaceful after the third attempt to kill him:

You know, it's crazy to me that one of the first things Trump did after this was -- and all of the people, his choir, is go push for a ballroom and use this instead of calling to our better angels and calling for unity, use it to call for the building of his ballroom.

 

 

Fact check: Disinformation. During his press conference back at the White House shortly after the attack, Trump did call for peace and unity: “But in light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully.”

Navarro eventually got around openly expressing her glee at their fear. “Now they know, they've lived it in their own flesh, the fear that our school children go through,” she touted. “Now they know what it's like to have to jump under a table the way that school children jump under a desk.”

 

 

Invoking the Sandy Hook school shooting, Navarro hoped they would finally do away with gun rights after nearly being killed themselves:

I still don't understand how Congress took no action after Sandy Hook, after 20 children between the ages of six and seven were killed. But maybe now that they have felt the fear themselves they will do something on gun reform!

In her final comments on the topic, Navarro scoffed at those who blamed the left for the third attempt to kill Trump. She did the “both sides” thing then blamed Trump himself (Click “expand”):

Taking it back to the serious aspect and what you were just referring to, I also have seen a lot of people on TV blaming this on the left. And if we are going to be honest about this, the heated political rhetoric is going on on both sides.

(…)

We shouldn't be getting into a contest of who is better or who is worse, but the one thing that we can't argue about is that the guy with the biggest bully pulpit is Donald Trump and I beg of him after three close calls to take time to reflect and give us an example. Lead by example.

 

 

Navarro also clownishly claimed they could have found themselves at the event, “but for the grace of God.” That was a lie. On the Friday show before the event, The View bragged about how they chose not to go because Trump would be there. Navarro even compared Trump to a “cannibal.”

Other hot takes from the cast included Sunny Hostin calling for more gun control, and insanely suggesting that America didn’t have any gun control laws (Click “expand”):

This political violence that is going on must be confronted. This divisiveness in this country in terms of politics must be confronted. And what we also must confront is that our country is a country that has more guns than people. More personal guns than people.

So, if we are not going to do something about the proliferation of guns and about the lack of gun control in this country, then we must do something to protect our citizenry -- citizens and we must do something to protect our political public servants.

Because, let's remember, this guy got on a train with firearms and was able to travel from California to Washington, D.C. was able to check into a hotel… And so, the fact that he was able to move about so easily with loaded firearms should be terrifying to us and should be, again, an inflection point in this country for gun control, for safety, and for us all to come together as a people We really need to do more.

 

 

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin scolded those who would blame the political left for the attack, but suggested that if you did, you’d be responsible for the next one:

I have already seen some folks on the right saying the left did this. The left did not do this. One individual actor who has his own agency, his own decision-making, who got radicalized however he may have did this. And I reject that language because it makes these things more likely to happen in the future.

 

 

Meanwhile, moderator Whoopi Goldberg was off in la la land. According to her, Trump should build a new hotel to host the White House Correspondents Dinner and not a new ballroom at the White House, which could host the event (Click “expand”):

I'm sorry. Here is something you-know-who always talks about he is a builder, he knows how to do this. Maybe he needs to build a new hotel there that has a big enough ballroom where they don't have to go to the Hilton, where the ballroom is the building.

This is what he says he does well. Forget destroying the White House. I'm saying maybe it's time someone built a hotel with a bigger ballroom, because the ballroom -- you're never going to have enough seats for everybody. You're just not. It's always going to be more people show up, less people -- you're never going to know. Maybe that's something when he stops being president.

And as their executive producer Brian Teta recounted being in the ballroom during the attack, Goldberg seemed to take issue with the Secret Service tactical response team entering with guns to secure President Trump and the cabinet officials.

 

 

“I will be interested to hear why they made that particular choice to go into the room when people in the room didn't know what was happening. So suddenly the doors fly open and these guys with [guns],” she chided.

Joy Behar wasn’t present. That’s not unusual since she typically had Mondays off, just as Goldberg had Fridays off.

 

 

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

ABC’s The View
April 27, 2026
11:04:42 a.m. Eastern

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ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I know we will talk a lot about this so I won't steal the microphone, but we have a problem with political violence in this country. It is not right that it almost becomes like, okay, I'm scrolling to the next thing on Instagram. Of course there was a shooting.

People are becoming desensitized to this, it's not like it was 20 years ago. If this had happened, if it was Reagan's assassination attempt at the Hilton as well, that was news for weeks on end. And I feel like we're sort of just this is what happens now. People get radicalized and try to kill people in our politics.

It is not right and leaders need to come together, condemn it and come up with actual solutions.

(…)

11:05:53 a.m. Eastern

ANA NAVARRO: And to hear [CNN’s] Wolf [Blitzer] talk about how scary this was, to hear Wolf say that he was three or four feet away from the shooter, got tackled down, that really hit me because that -- that room is somewhere where we but for the grace of God, we could have been in, and there were so many people that we love and respect in our parts of our lives who were there.

I'll tell you what really hit me, though, was later that night when I was on social media or the next morning, a good chunk of the country thinks this was staged.

And where -- I don't think that. Let me just be clear, I don't think that.

But where are we in America? When Reagan was shot in 1981, nobody would have thought about that. And so, you know, I think we've got to -- I think people have to take stock of just the level of influence that misinformation, that the lies have had on the American psyche that the first conclusion so many people reach, because of the polarization and because of some of the things that our elected officials have done, frankly.

You know, it's crazy to me that one of the first things Trump did after this was -- and all of the people, his choir, is go push for a ballroom and use this instead of calling to our better angels and calling for unity, use it to call for the building of his ballroom.

You know, I just think school children have as much a right to have safe schools as politicians do to have a secure ballroom.

(…)

11:08:04 a.m. Eastern

SUNNY HOSTIN: So the President, thank God, wasn't -- he wasn't close to the president. But I think we should all be outraged that someone tried to allegedly kill the president of the United States and members of his cabinet.

This political violence that is going on must be confronted. This divisiveness in this country in terms of politics must be confronted. And what we also must confront is that our country is a country that has more guns than people. More personal guns than people.

So, if we are not going to do something about the proliferation of guns and about the lack of gun control in this country, then we must do something to protect our citizenry -- citizens and we must do something to protect our political public servants.

Because, let's remember, this guy got on a train with firearms and was able to travel from California to Washington, D.C. was able to check into a hotel, which journalists actually call the Hinckley hotel because of the Hinckley --

SARA HAINES: Assassination.

HOSTIN: Assassination attempt on President Reagan and the almost mortal injury of Brady, of James Brady.

And so, the fact that he was able to move about so easily with loaded firearms should be terrifying to us and should be, again, an inflection point in this country for gun control, for safety, and for us all to come together as a people We really need to do more.

(…)

11:09:57 a.m. Eastern

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: We talk about this all the time. We talk about guns, we say all the stuff, and then it goes away. People forget. So, you know, we will talk more about all of this when we come back.

(…)

11:15:38 a.m. Eastern

BRIAN TETA (executive producer): The scary thing really was when the Secret Service charged into the room.

GOLDBERG: Right.

TETA: Because I didn't know what was happening. They were going for -- they were going to remove all the cabinet members, which makes complete sense, but at the time I thought maybe they were trying to find somebody, a perpetrator in the room, and that's what was really scary.

HAINES: It's terrifying.

GOLDBERG: That to me would have been the thing. It's interesting and I will be interested to hear why they made that particular choice to go into the room when people in the room didn't know what was happening. So suddenly the doors fly open and these guys with --

TETA: I think they had to secure everybody. I think that's the protocol to make sure the line of succession even. There was a lot of line of succession in the room.

(…)

NAVARRO: But, you know, now - So, that room was full of some of the most important political leaders in the country right now.

GOLDBERG: Right.

NAVARRO: Now they know, they've lived it in their own flesh, the fear that our school children go through.

HOSTIN: Yes.

NAVARRO: Now they know what it's like to have to jump under a table the way that school children jump under a desk.

HOSTIN: Yes.

NAVARRO: And we are a country that is vulnerable to this. We have now seen shootings in malls, in churches, in temples, in Walmarts --

GOLDBERG: Baseball fields -

NAVARRO: Baseball fields

GOLDBERG: We saw it with Republicans.

HOSTIN: Steve Scalise.

NAVARRO: You know, it's - I still don't understand how Congress took no action after Sandy Hook, after 20 children between the ages of six and seven were killed. But maybe now that they have felt the fear themselves they will do something on gun reform!

(…)

11:18:24 a.m. Eastern

GOLDBERG: I'm sorry. Here is something you-know-who always talks about he is a builder, he knows how to do this. Maybe he needs to build a new hotel there that has a big enough ballroom where they don't have to go to the Hilton, where the ballroom is the building.

This is what he says he does well. Forget destroying the White House. I'm saying maybe it's time someone built a hotel with a bigger ballroom, because the ballroom -- you're never going to have enough seats for everybody. You're just not. It's always going to be more people show up, less people -- you're never going to know. Maybe that's something when he stops being president.

(…)

11:25:24 a.m. Eastern

FARAH GRIFFIN: I have already seen some folks on the right saying the left did this. The left did not do this. One individual actor who has his own agency, his own decision-making, who got radicalized however he may have did this. And I reject that language because it makes these things more likely to happen in the future.

(…)

11:27:12 a.m. Eastern

NAVARRO: Taking it back to the serious aspect and what you were just referring to, I also have seen a lot of people on TV blaming this on the left. And if we are going to be honest about this, the heated political rhetoric is going on on both sides.

Look, just last week after -- after Trump was attacking the pope, the pope's brother, who lives in Chicago, who lives in Illinois, had a bomb threat at his house.

So, you know, this is a moment for people to take stock on what we can do and what the people we support and like can do, not just the people that we don't like and support are doing.

It's -- We shouldn't be getting into a contest of who is better or who is worse, but the one thing that we can't argue about is that the guy with the biggest bully pulpit is Donald Trump and I beg of him after three close calls to take time to reflect and give us an example. Lead by example.

(…)

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