The same cast of ABC’s The View - which demanded lockdowns during COVID, compared lockdown protesters to terrorists, and said the unvaccinated deserved to die - were outraged on Thursday’s show because President Trump was not importing possible Ebola patients into the United States. According to co-host Joy Behar, it was exposing Trump’s “cruel and sadistic streak.”
Pivoting from saying Trump didn’t care about the American people, moderator Whoopi Goldberg was the one to bring up the latest Ebola outbreak. According to her and Behar, Trump was personally responsible for “this Ebola thing” because of the cuts to USAID:
GOLDBERG: This Ebola thing is something -
BEHAR: And we’re all of USAID, also. Those people.
GOLDBERG: That's what I'm talking about. When I look at all of the stuff that's happening around the world, I think to myself, 'what are you doing?' This bounces back and bites you in the butt.
When people are ill and they're traveling and there's a possibility of bring it, it means people can bring it here too. It doesn't -- don't you understand, we do all the things we do in the world to -- as preventive and it just - the laissez-faire kind of attitude
“The disregard,” Behar decried, to Goldberg’s agreement: “The disregard for just about everything and everybody.”
Whoopi Goldberg blames Trump for "this Ebola thing" in Africa and for how "people are dying all over the world."
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 28, 2026
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: When I look at all of the stuff that's happening around the world, I think to myself, 'what are you doing?' This bounces back and bites you in the… pic.twitter.com/Ptwfy7GSWH
The View was trying to make it seem as though Ebola was well-managed before the cuts to USAID. That was misinformation.
According to the CDC, there were 24 outbreaks between 1976 and 2025. Two of them occurred during the Biden administration and three under the Obama administration. There were also three during Trump’s first term when USAID was still funded.
Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in to try to turn the overseas quarantine into a civil rights issue. “There are a few Americans that they believe have been exposed to Ebola. Rather than bring them back to the United States and quarantine them, they are keeping them in Kenya to take care of them,” she griped.
But even Goldberg’s hatred for Trump wasn’t enough for her advocate for bring in people with suspected contact with the incurable, highly deadly virus. She even got support from co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin:
GOLDBERG: You know, what? They'll have a much better deal in Kenya.
HOSTIN: They are not allowing American citizens to come back here.
GOLDBERG: They'll get better sooner in Kenya than they will if you put them on a plane and bring them here.
FARAH GRIFFIN: There are medical arguments for quarantining them in the country they're in.
Sunny Hostin whines that Trump is keeping Ebola patients quarantined overseas and not importing them into the United States.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 28, 2026
Joy Behar calls it "cruel" that the patients are not brought in.
Whoopi points out there's no cure:
SUNNY HOSTIN: The thing about Ebola, there are a few… pic.twitter.com/Mw8aZEEjLu
“But just think about the fact that before when this type of thing happened, Americans were brought back and they were taken care of here. Now, that's not happening,” Hostin complained. She had the nerve to claim that not bringing in people possibly infected with Ebola somehow meant, “he doesn't … [care] about Americans.”
In reality, it was Hostin who didn’t care about Americans since she was apparently perfectly content with bring the outbreak to the homeland. Perhaps it was to score political points during the midterms.
Goldberg reiterated that they were dealing with Ebola and that’s what warranted the caution:
GOLDBERG: I think it's the Ebola portion because this particular thing, this Ebola has no -- there's no cure.
HOSTIN: That's true.
GOLDBERG: There's no cure, so I think that -- I'm happy they're there getting the help they need.
“He doesn't care about anybody but himself,” Behar sneered despite the facts. “He has a cruel and sadistic streak.”
Without explain how it was connected to their Ebola conversation, Behar added: “But I'm not sure that he's realizing what he's saying.”
It didn’t seem like Behar knew what she was saying either.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
May 28, 2026
11:08:37 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know what's really bothering me? You know, he's doing all of this, people are dying all over the world, right now.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Correct.
SARA HAINES Oh, yeah.
GOLDBERG: This Ebola thing is something -
JOY BEHAR: And we’re all of USAID, also. Those people.
GOLDBERG: That's what I'm talking about. When I look at all of the stuff that's happening around the world, I think to myself, 'what are you doing?' This bounces back and bites you in the butt.
When people are ill and they're traveling and there's a possibility of bring it, it means people can bring it here too. It doesn't -- don't you understand, we do all the things we do in the world to -- as preventive and it just - the laissez-faire kind of attitude
BEHAR: The disregard.
GOLDBERG: The disregard for just about everything and everybody.
HOSTIN: And thinking about Ebola, there are a few Americans that they believe have been exposed to Ebola. Rather than bring them back to the United States and quarantine them, they are keeping them in Kenya to take care of them.
GOLDBERG: You know, what? They'll have a much better deal in Kenya.
HOSTIN: They are not allowing American citizens to come back here.
GOLDBERG: They'll get better sooner in Kenya than they will if you put them on a plane and bring them here.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: There are medical arguments for quarantining them in the country they're in.
HOSTIN: But just think about the fact that before when this type of thing happened, Americans were brought back and they were taken care of here. Now, that's not happening, so he doesn't -- I don't think that he [Trump] cares about Americans.
GOLDBERG: I think it's the Ebola.
JOY BEHAR: He doesn't care about anybody but himself.
GOLDBERG: I think it's the Ebola portion because this particular thing, this Ebola has no -- there's no cure.
HOSTIN: That's true.
GOLDBERG: There's no cure, so I think that -- I'm happy they're there getting the help they need. But the idea that we stopped helping people avoid this just blows me away. The fact that he's going after E. Jean, doesn't -
BEHAR: He's cruel.
GOLDBERG: Doesn't surprise me. Yes. It feels --
BEHAR: He has a cruel and sadistic streak.
GOLDBERG: It does feel like that.
BEHAR: But I'm not sure that he's realizing what he's saying.
GOLDBERG: Well, we'll find out.
HOSTIN: We'll find out.
GOLDBERG: But, you know, I know what I'm saying and what I'm saying is we'll be right back.
