The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were not enthused by President-elect Trump being named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year of a second time. Amid lazy notations that “Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler” were also on the cover, Friday moderator Joy Behar lashed out at voters for electing Trump and declared that they were “misinformed” about their quality of life under the Biden-Harris administration.
Anti-Trump Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin proclaimed that Trump “was smart to talk about what voters cared about on the campaign trail, so the cost of living, grocery price, gas prices, and so on. I'm really curious to hear what the actual plan is to address those.”
“He doesn't have a plan! He has concepts of a plan!” not-so-sunny co-host Sunny Hostin shouted, conflating Trump’s economic agenda with past comments about his vision for healthcare.
Behar jumped in to falsely claim Biden “added” over 775,000 jobs while in office and insisted voters were “misled by other networks”:
I don't know what people were thinking when they voted for him. I mean, this one statistic really got to me. He lost – during his term – 200,000 manufacturing jobs. He lost them. Joe Biden added more than 775,000 jobs and people voted for Trump. I think that they have been misinformed, misled by other networks.
In reality, Biden didn’t create most of those. Those were businesses opening up and people going back to work after the pandemic. The voter also didn't need to watch the news to learn about how bad the economy was. They had their bills, bank statements, and their paychecks to give them that information. Where's the misinformation, Joy?
Ironically, Behar proceeded to whine about people calling them out on her bias. “You know, people get mad at us; they say we're one-sided here. The statistics are here,” she huffed as she held up a notecard full of talking points someone gave her (pictured above).
Farah Griffin tried to explain that people were focus on the “cost of living,” but was interrupted by Behar screeching: “But there were more jobs created!”
She was also repeatedly interrupted by Hostin who was trying to suggest everything good about the economy under Trump was actually because of former President Obama. Hostin was being so ridiculous that she seemed to suggest the pandemic was going on for all four years of Trump’s first term; calling the time pre-pandemic “the Obama years”:
FARAH GRIFFIN: They think of the Trump years before COVID. So, like, if you're judging it by like --
HOSTIN: You mean the Obama years?
FARAH GRIFFIN: No, they’re thinking of the Trump years before the coronavirus came and unemployment spiked –
HOSTIN: The Obama economy!
FARAH GRIFFIN: - and the economy went to freefall. And it was a time that people had more money whether you attribute it to him or whatever you do.
HOSTIN: Obama!
More on topic with the magazine cover, fake Republican Ana Navarro felt compelled to give her depreciated two cents. “It's not always been great people that have been on the cover of TIME. Right? It’s been people like Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler and Khrushchev and Khomeini, so he's in that kind of company, as well,” she said, thinking she was being clever.
Other notable TIME persons of the year who were in the company of Stalin and Hitler were Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, other German leader Angela Merkel, and Biden & Kamala Harris shared a cover. And let’s not forget that Navarro herself was technically on the cover; although it was via TIMES’s infamous and widely mocked “You” pick in 2006.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
December 13, 2024
11:06:53 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: It's not always been great people that have been on the cover of TIME. Right? It’s been people like Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler and Khrushchev and Khomeini, so he's in that kind of company, as well.
(…)
11:08:19 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I didn't have super strong feelings on this just because now that the "Eras" tour is over it did kind of feel like Donald Trump would be TIME Person of the Year.
Think about it from this perspective. So, he basically left in disgrace after January 6. He was kind of exiled down to Mar-a-Lago for two years, then came back as the leader of the Republican Party, swept the GOP primary. Goes on to win the presidential race after surviving two assassination attempts. I don't like the man, I didn't vote for the man, but, I mean, he is the most powerful force in American culture and politics right now.
Now, what I'm looking for is, like, what the -- the delta between what he said he's going to do and what he's actually going to do.
SARA HAINES: Pretty far.
FARAH GRIFFIN: And it's often very far because he was smart to talk about what voters cared about on the campaign trail, so the cost of living, grocery price, gas prices, and so on. I'm really curious to hear what the actual plan is to address those.
SUNNY HOSTIN: He doesn't have a plan! He has concepts of a plan!
FARAH GRIFFIN: There have been some smart people that were appointed to roles but then he’s talking about things like tariffs that are literally going to bring the cost of every single thing up.
JOY BEHAR: I don't know what people were thinking when they voted for him. I mean, this one statistic really got to me. He lost – during his term – 200,000 manufacturing jobs. He lost them. Joe Biden added more than 775,000 jobs and people voted for Trump. I think that they have been misinformed, misled by other networks.
HAINES: He’s a salesman.
BEHAR: You know, people get mad at us; they say we're one-sided here. The statistics are here [Holds up talking points card someone gave here].
FARAH GRIFFIN: I do think it was cost of living. Because I think a lot of voters think --
BEHAR: But there were more jobs created!
FARAH GRIFFIN: They think of the Trump years before COVID. So, like, if you're judging it by like --
HOSTIN: You mean the Obama years?
FARAH GRIFFIN: No, they’re thinking of the Trump years before the coronavirus came and unemployment spiked –
HOSTIN: The Obama economy!
FARAH GRIFFIN: - and the economy went to freefall. And it was a time that people had more money whether you attribute it to him or whatever you do.
HOSTIN: Obama!
FARAH GRIFFIN: That’s what people were voting on.
BEHAR: They’re getting false information.
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