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“The View” co-host Joy Behar was skewered on social media for sowing “toxic and divisive” rhetoric with her latest anti-Trump screed, spewing a deranged accusation that the president wants to create a generation of “toddler white nationalists.”
In a segment on Tuesday’s broadcast, Behar and co-host Sunny Hostin uncorked on the administration for trimming billions of dollars of foreign aid spending and grants from the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
“The View” co-host Joy Behar accused President Trump of wanting to create a generation of “toddler white nationalists.” ABC“What gets me is this lie that they care about children. They seem to care about white children. Like when they say ‘more Trump babies,’ what does that mean?” Behar asked, presumably referring to a February comment made by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz about the administration’s TrumpRX prescription drugs marketplace.
“We’re gonna have a lot of Trump babies with these costs,” Oz quipped about the new program, which aims to slash prices on prescription drugs for Americans, including fertility treatments.
Behar proceeded to rattle off a list of cuts to USAID programs she claimed would negatively impact children, dismissing the administration’s efforts to reverse the US’ declining birth rate through incentive programs like Trump Accounts.
Trump Accounts, which any US citizen with a Social Security number can open, are a new savings vehicle for children born between 2025 and 2028, which are seeded with $1,000 from the federal government and allow parents to contribute up to $5,000 per year from pre-tax income.
“So don’t tell me you care about children. You only care about these children that you call ‘Trump children,'” she said.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House staffer-turned Trump critic who admitted she opened a Trump Account when she had her first child earlier this year, spoke up and pointed out that the accounts were available to all Americans.
“My child’s not a ‘Trump child’ — it’s accessible to anyone who wants to sign up for it,” she said.
“I’m looking at the overall picture of this administration, stop BSing me, ok?” she said to applause from the studio audience.
The panel had some rare praise for Trump’s pro-family initiatives, including from Sunny Hostin, who called TrumpRX and Trump Accounts “good policies.” ABCHostin, a dyed-in-the-wool Trump hater, agreed with Behar’s ravings about “Trump babies,” a term she claimed “implies he wants American-born, white children.”
Behar chimed in with a chuckle, “he wants toddler white nationalists.”
Many on X took issue with Behar’s blistering anti-Trump accusations.
“It continues to blow my mind that ABC network allows this on their air,” one X user wrote in response to a clip of the segment.
“This is not only a straight up lie, but it’s also just such an incredibly toxic and divisive thing to say.”
Another person wrote: “These women are so vile, people should stop watching this kind of shows, they only create divisions.”
And a third commenter said they “can’t wait for these hacks to be taken off TV.”
In a rare turn of events on Tuesday’s show, Hostin actually praised the concepts of TrumpRX and Trump Accounts, noting her own struggles with fertility and its impact on the family bank account.
“The fact that something like this is available where you do have help with IVF, that you do have help with IVF drugs I think is a win,” she said before bolting on the obligatory anti-Trump boilerplate.
“There’s so much to criticize Donald Trump for, especially his racism, xenophobia and misogyny. But these particular things where you have a Trump Account where your children can have $200,000 when they’re 18-years-old, and the help with infertility, which is also a crisis in this country, I think these are good policies,” she said.
The Trump administration has rolled out several initiatives aimed at uplifting the US birthrate, which hit a new low in 2023 with just under 3.6 million babies born that year, including a $5,000 “baby bonus” incentive for new moms announced last year.
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