Joy Behar Stuns ‘The View’ Cohosts to Silence With Trump Comment
Joy Behar left her The View cohosts briefly without words after her latest comments on Donald Trump on Tuesday’s (July 21) episode.
In the episode, the cohosts started the day by talking about Donald Trump’s primetime address and his claims of election fraud, along with Senator Elissa Slotkin’s warning that he’s trying to lay a foundation for invalidating the results of November’s midterms if the results don’t favor his party.
Whoopi Goldberg introduced the subject by saying, “You Know Who’s speech last week, where he dusted off the election fraud lies about the 2020 presidential election, it kind of landed with a big old thud. It was mostly ignored, and a lot of Republicans tried to distance themselves from it, but Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin says — she’s also a former CIA analyst, so we need to pay attention…” before showing Slotkin’s statement in which she concluded, “When he loses elections, he claims they were rigged, kind of like a kid.”
“Not kind of like a kid,” Goldberg then said before claiming that “hell yeah” Trump is laying the groundwork to contest the 2026 election results.
That’s when Behar weighed in with her showstopping comment: “That speech was not about 2020. That speech was about 2026. He is petrified that the Democrats are going to take over. That’s what all the polls are saying anyway. And here’s why: We now have lost 17 service members in Iran, and he has nothing, no plan. The gas is up to $4 a gallon — some diesel, I’ve noticed some diesel, almost $6… And now we’ve put a 50 percent tariff on Canada, which is going to increase inflation, and prices are going to go up. And the perfect metaphor for his administration: the diarrhea outbreak… The explosive diarrhea is the perfect metaphor because everything is going up and making a mess.”
As her cohost burst out laughing, Alyssa Farah Griffin said with a chuckle, “Thank you for that, Joy… the imagery.”
“You’re welcome,” Behar said with a smile.
Sara Haines then chimed in and offered a theory: “I’m not convinced he cares beyond himself.. This election loss stuff, my concern is, it’s definitely eroding the trust the American public has. I know all the dangers and potential problems there, but is it because he cares at all about a strategy? … I don’t think he cares about the midterms. I think it’s an ego thing.”
Griffin agreed, saying, “First and foremost, it’s about the fact that he cannot accept that he lost in 2020. I think that is much bigger than anything ahead in the midterms. In fact, I often think that when he’s not technically on the ballot, he doesn’t care that much if Republicans win.” She also questioned, “Why is it only the election that he lost that’s rigged? … Even more fascinating, it was the election his federal government was in charge of.”
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“I’m not convinced he cares beyond himself.” Really? Sara is just realizing that now? Listen, my family and my in-laws both had business dealings with Trump in the 80s and 90s. They were hired to work on his projects. Know what happened? He declared bankruptcy both times so no one received payment, but he did so after the work was completed. Companies then were taking offers and doing work with minimal down payment because Regan and Bush destroyed the blue-collar sector, so a job was a job that you took. After this debacle, both companies unionized and then demanded 60% payment upfront.
There was an event that Trump hosted and he was there. My mother knew Trump from business dealings associated with the project he eventually opted out of paying through “false” bankruptcy claims. Anyway, she wouldn’t let me out of her sight in that room. The people that were present in that room, were people that were on a certain list. The guy is a selfish, self-centered, pig, putting it nicely. Most northerners already knew this (and other things) about him that aren’t fake news. He’s not one of you and you’ll never be him.
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I'm sorry your family had dealings with the Orange Idiot. I grew up in New York-- not the City, but elsewhere in the state, so I'd been hearing about trumpty-dumpty occasionally since the '80s or early '90s. And everything I heard about him indicated that he was a certified, 1000%, unequivocal jerk. His real estate deals, his appearance at social events, we heard about them. But since I didn't live in NYC, or go to fancy Manhattan social events, it was pretty easy to ignore him. Then he got his stupid game show (which I heard was tough on the producers because they had to 'handle' him like he was 10 years old), and with that show he got more visible to the rest of the country, not just NYC. But he was still a jerk and I could still ignore him because I don't watch shows that pretend to be 'reality' when they aren't. And during that time he would also occasionally declare he was going to run for president-- a ploy to get publicity for his show, of course, because who would vote for such an idiot? But still, easy to ignore.
Until.... that horrible golden escalator in 2015. Too bad the escalator didn't stop suddenly, sending him tumbling to the bottom. That would have been a pretty good metaphor for his personality.
BTW, too bad all the businesses and tradespeople who got stiffed by the idiot over the years didn't band together somehow... it could create a pretty good voting bloc!
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