Bill Clinton Reveals His Biggest ‘Worry’ About Trump’s Second Term on ‘The View’
On Thursday’s (June 5) live episode of The View, former President Bill Clinton joined the show alongside author James Patterson to promote their new political thriller, The First Gentleman, and, naturally, the cohosts had a lot of questions about how Clinton feels about the ongoing second administration of Donald Trump.
First, Clinton said that Trump was merely doing what he said he was going to do in implementing Project 2025. But then, he revealed what he is concerned about with Trump 2.0.
Sunny Hostin asked him, “Beyond President Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ he is working to dismantle, in my view, our foundational institutions. He’s intimidating law firms and universities. He’s stifling media. He’s illegally disappearing people and deporting people, and he’s now threatening to impeach judges. So are you confident that the courts will hold, and what concerns you most about what he’s doing now?”
“That the courts won’t hold until we have the midterm elections,” Clinton said in response before referring to the specific case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was deported to the El Salvadorian prison after what the White House called an “administrative error.” After the Supreme Court ordered the administration to facilitate his return, Donald Trump declared that he could but would not.
“The Supreme Court’s made some good decisions, which so far have been ignored, like when they sent that El Salvadorian man, who his own State Department said was entitled to be here and have a full hearing and they shouldn’t send him away. They sent him away then manufactured a picture that made it look like he had MS-13 on his hands, which he didn’t, and the guy’s still there in jail. And so I’m worried about that, and you should be worried about that, whatever your politics,” Clinton declared.
Clinton went on to predict that if Democrats ever reclaim presidential power, the expectations of rule-abiding by the executive will probably change in an instant.
“I have a sneaking suspicion that if our party wins the White House in the next election, there’ll be a hallelujah moment, and the Supreme Court will rediscover the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the limits,” he said, earning applause. He then clarified, “I’ll be happy if that happens because all of us should operate our guardrails. The whole purpose of the Constitution was to repeal royal government, unaccountable government, that no Democrat or Republican can be without accountability. Yes, that’s what I think. So we’ll see what happens. But I’m pretty upbeat about it.”
The View, Weekdays, 11 a.m. ET, ABC
Don’t Miss Any Co-host Chaos
Get absolutely everything about The View in your inbox!
Conversation9 Comments
Please read the TV Insider Community Guidelines.
Comments are closed on this story.
-
G
Totally Agree !!
1
-
G
There’s been several times this site has deleted my comments with no explanation as to why. Truth must hurt.
3 2
-
G
I can Easily believe that. I think your right as rain !
-
C
I just hope it's not too late when the Supreme Court finally has their 'come to Jesus' moment.
2 2
-
G
Me to as they Really need to reign in these Rampant Rogue Liberal Democrat Judges !! These “ judges” are abandoning their duties to their dockets to conduct total lawfare against President Trump’s agenda. That is NOT their job. Many, many times they are filing injunctions that they Know will be over turned by a higher court. They are filing Many of these injunctions Not to serve the American people but out of pure spite. The other reason is it’s a stalling tactic. They are holding out hope that if they can stall President Trump’s agenda long enough Maybe the Democrats can get the majority of Congress in 2026. But and again That To is Not their job !! They are supposed to Interpret existing laws, Not try to Create new ones. Neither Obama or Biden were Ever even vaguely treated this way by Conservative Judges. If a Democrat does get the Presidency I sure hope these things will be remembered and Conservative Judges will reciprocate in like kind. But they won’t. They won’t be willing to sink that low, as Most of them care to much about the country as a whole to sink to pure partisan politics from the judicial bench. It doesn’t matter whether they Hate the very breath that Trump breathes, he IS the duly elected President and should be allowed to install his agenda Just As Biden ( or who ever was Really running the Presidency) was allowed to Inflict his Disastrous agenda on the American people. But Liberal Democrats have absolutely no sense of fairness so it’s not that shocking.
1 4
-
-
G
Good one !! 🤣
-
G
To give the very short version of what I said and it got deleted for some unknown reason. Bill Clinton is So full of crap !!
1 3
-
G
Ole Bill is slick as a banana peel on a rainy night on a catfish when it comes to saying all the political buzz words. He says them but he could care less if they are upheld fairly for ALL Americans. Note how he didn’t say a word about the Abuse of the judicial system by these Rogue Liberal Judges. Many of the injunctions actually Most of the injunctions they are filing against the Trump agenda are out of pure spite. They serve No worth while purpose for the American people as a whole. And many times are actually Harmful to the American people. The Reason these “judges” are filing almost Daily injunctions is two fold. One they are just pure Angry that Trump won the election and that the GOP won the majority of Congress. Two they are using them as a stalling tactic hoping to get a Democrat in the WH in 2028 and get the majority of Congress in 2026. They have abandoned their duty to their respective dockets to conduct Lawfare. Bill can tout the Constitution and Rule Of Law all he wants to but what these judges are doing is Absolutely counter to Both and is utterly anti-American !! Conservative Judges haven’t even vaguely treated Dem Presidents this way. I hope and believe they will that the American people will Remember these Anti-American antics being pulled by these judges.
3 6
-
G
Heard the ladies of the view are really excited about the next show. Seems Whoopi is gonna stick her face in some dough and bake gorilla cookies !!
1 4
Watchlist Easy access to only the shows you care about — all in one simple place
Alerts Only important notifications — when a show is returning, when it becomes available to stream, and more.
Special Offers Exclusive products we release related to your favorite shows and streaming services