The View’s anti-military bent from most of the year came to ahead on Thursday’s show as ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg asserted, without evidence, that President Trump’s announced “warrior dividends” (a $1,776 pay bonus) where about bribing service members to follow illegal orders. Additionally, co-host Joy Behar was outraged that Trump had the nerve to call President Obama a “divisive” figure. For which, she demanded the invocation of the 25th Amendment.
Before Goldberg claimed the checks were a bride to get the military to back him, she first casted doubt on if they would be getting any money at all:
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The one thing I’ll give him credit on is this bonuses to troops. He’s giving them basically $1700.
GOLDBERG: Let’s see if they get the check. I want to see them get it first.
While faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin was scoffing at the notion of the “warrior dividends,” Goldberg pivoted to claiming the checks were a bribe to get service members to back whatever plots and illegal orders he was planning to issue:
FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, and the delay of that they all had of that. They got back pay but, I mean, people need help but all Americans need help right now. And just a handout isn’t the answer, smart policies are the answer.
GOLDBERG: He’s – What he’s doing is he’s thinking if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need, they’ll back me and what I want. See?
Whoopi doubts Trump is going to pay the troops his announced $1,776 bonus, but then claims it’s a bribe for them to back his plots:
“What he’s doing is, he’s thinking, ‘if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need they’ll back me and what I want, see?” pic.twitter.com/DBmKx6IfEN— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 18, 2025
Goldberg’s comments showed that she looked down on our men and women in uniform if she thought $1,776 was enough to buy off the military to back a coup, shoot civilians, steal an election, or whatever other harebrained scenario The View’s cracked brains had thought up over the course of 2025.
Elsewhere in Thursday’s show, Behar was flapping her gums in outrage over Trump having a plaque hung in the White House that called out Obama as a “divisive” president. Her reasoning? “[Because we love Barack Obama and it’s wrong of [Trump],” she whined.
Behar showed off her lack of reading comprehension or perhaps the liberal Pavlovian response to see racism in everything:
He writes and this he acts like this is real and true history. ‘A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American history.’ Why, because he was black?! Why is everything is about race with him?!
Literally, nothing about what she read had anything to do with race.
Joy Behar says “we love Barack Obama” and “it’s wrong of [Trump]” to speak ill of him and thinks he should be kicked out of office for it:
“He writes and this he acts like this is real and true history, ‘A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most… pic.twitter.com/VeulUxyDLC— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 18, 2025
Behar proceeded to shriek about how Trump speaking bad about Obama warranted the use of the 25th Amendment: “When are they going to invoke the 25th Amendment? Does he have to run naked into the White House or what?! What is that amendment for if not for this?!”
Too bad, there wasn’t a 25th Amendment for The View because something seemed seriously wrong upstairs for Behar if that’s her reaction.
With a total lack of self-awareness, co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in to assert, “Obama lives rent-free in his head” and hyped Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize as if he actually did something to earn it (which he didn’t). “[Trump]’s not going to win that Nobel Prize,” Hostin boasted.
The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:
ABC’s The View
December 18, 2025
11:09:11 a.m. Eastern(…)
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The one thing I’ll give him credit on is this bonuses to troops. He’s giving them basically $1700.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Let’s see if they get the check. I want to see them get it first.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Where is the money coming from?
FARAH GRIFFIN: He says tariff revenue. That’s what I’m most intrigued to see if that’s the case. Listen, coming off the government shutdown —
HOSTIN: I don’t have my phone. I got to check that with ChatGPT, because I don’t believe that.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, and the delay of that they all had of that. They got back pay but, I mean, people need help but all Americans need help right now. And just a handout isn’t the answer, smart policies are the answer.
GOLDBERG: He’s – What he’s doing is he’s thinking if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need, they’ll back me and what I want. See?
(…)
11:27:16 a.m. Eastern
JOY BEHAR: This is what he says about him. I want to read what he says about Barack Obama because we love Barack Obama and it’s wrong of him.
[Cheers and applause]
He writes and this he acts like this is real and true history. A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American history. Why, because he was black?!
GOLDBERG: No.
BEHAR: Why is everything is about race with him?!
SARA HAINES: It might also be the jealousy of how well he did for people.
HOSTIN: Well, Obama lives rent-free in his head. For sure, for sure. He will never be the type of president President Obama was. He’s not going to win that Nobel Prize.
BEHAR: When are they going to invoke the 25th Amendment? Does he have to run naked into the White House or what?! What is that amendment for if not for this?!
FARAH GRIFFIN: He’s doing this to trigger people. He wants people to get outraged and to troll. Because that’s how he is.
BEHAR: What is his motive?!
HOSTIN: We are not outraged, we feel he is juvenile and unhinged.
BEHAR: What is his motive, Alyssa?!
HOSTIN: Distraction.
FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s to distract, it’s troll.
(…)
