During a recent segment of “The View” tensions flared as the panel descended into a meltdown over the imminent return of President-elect Donald Trump. In the weeks following Trump’s decisive landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, the co-hosts of ABC’s daytime talk show have lamented what is to come over the next few years.
The dissenting conservative voice on the panel, Alyssa Farah Griffin, emphasized that instead of dwelling in an “apocalyptic” mindset over Trump’s victory, the left should do some soul-searching and figure out why it failed so egregiously. “In many ways, we can sit here and you can be apocalyptic about what he might do. But I also think there’s a moment for self-reflection,” Griffin, a former Trump official, said.
She added, “I felt as unrepresented by Biden when I would talk about, ‘I care about the border.’ Why did you wait till three years…” Co-host Whoopi Goldberg interjected, maintaining they had already done that, claiming she and Griffin were coming from different perspectives.
“We’ve done all of that, and we’re talking about how this…how this respect comes to you, how it comes to me, how it comes to you,” Goldberg said. “We’re looking at different things. You’re hearing different things that I’m hearing, because you’re not listening for the same things, and we just aren’t, and that’s okay. I have a lot more understanding about what you’re looking for than most people have what I’m looking for. So I think what we’re all saying is we’re going to sit and wait. We’re going to wait and see, because we can’t do anything else except…”
However, Ana Navarro chimed in, asserting that she would not “wait and see” as Whoopi suggested. “I’m not going to wait and see. I mean, this guy’s told us he..retribution. He’s going to be a dictator,” she said, leaning into the commonly touted Democratic narrative that Trump is an existential threat to the United States, vowing that she will continue to be “apocalyptic.” Regardless, Goldberg stood firm, stating, “There’s nothing to be done until you know what you’re fighting. It’s It’s pissing in the wind doesn’t help you just.”
At this point in the segment, emotions were high, and the panel devolved into unintelligible squabbling and talking over each other. Goldberg reasserted herself over the arguing, claiming that pushing alarming and hostile rhetoric could backfire and damage their credibility, where many Americans have already lost their trust in the mainstream media.
Whoopi said, “Well, here’s the thing, you lose credibility in many different ways, if you don’t know what you’re talking about and you accuse him of something then, then they’re going to blow it back. That’s why I say we need to wait and see exactly what you’re going to do. Are you coming after all the folks that come to this country for a better world, who come here to work? What do you want to do with all those folks? What are you going to do with those jobs? There’s some when you take all these people away, when you talk about getting rid of folks, you better know what your what your back name is going to be before you talk about what you want to do, and can you know what your candidate.”
Watch the panel below:
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