Watch: 'The View' Completely Breaks Down After Inviting Non-Liberal Guest Host
If you’ve ever stumbled across ABC’s daytime talk show The View, you already know what to expect: a reliably progressive echo chamber packaged as “discussion.”
The long-running program has built a reputation for ideological uniformity, where conservative viewpoints are less debated than dismissed. Compared to even late-night staples like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “The View” often feels less like entertainment and more like a midday political rally.
The reason is simple. The regular panel — Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Sarah Haines — rarely strays from progressive orthodoxy. Even the show’s designated “Republican,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, often aligns more closely with establishment Democrats than grassroots conservatives.
While the show occasionally books non-liberal guests, they are vastly outnumbered by figures like Joe Biden and rising progressive stars such as Zohran Mamdani.
But Thursday’s episode delivered a particularly telling moment.
Reality television personality Savannah Chrisley, whose parents were pardoned by President Donald J. Trump in 2025, appeared as a guest co-host. What began as routine panel chatter escalated when the conversation turned to President Trump and accusations of “racism.”
Chrisley referenced the president’s recent White House celebration of Black History Month and defended his character.
“I think, you know, when it comes to the event that happened yesterday, what’s so hard for me to witness is people stating that the president is a racist, because I’ve seen him firsthand,” Chrisley said, according to Fox News. “He saved one of my best friends’ lives, a black woman who has been with him for –”
“He is a racist,” Hostin interrupted, while Chrisley went on to stick up for Trump’s character. Hostin wasn’t impressed with Trump having saved a black woman.
“So, he has a black friend,” Hostin retorted. “He’s racist.”
Hostin continued: “Let’s call a thing, a thing. Donald Trump is a racist. There is no question in my mind. It’s time to say the truth and tell it like it is, and the most recent thing that he did by posting on Truth Social, the Obamas depicted as apes in ‘The Lion King,’ where there are no apes in ‘The Lion King.’ It was a racist — he tried to blame a staffer. A staffer did not do it.”
From there, the segment devolved into a familiar spectacle: panelists talking past one another, accusations flying, and little genuine engagement with opposing viewpoints.
Lost in the shouting was a broader political reality. President Trump increased his share of the black vote in 2024 compared to 2020 — an unusual trajectory for a candidate routinely labeled with the most severe moral indictment in American public life. During his first term, he signed the bipartisan First Step Act into law and frequently highlighted historically low black unemployment rates.
None of that means Trump is beyond criticism. No president is. But reflexively branding every disagreement or controversial statement as “racism” risks cheapening the charge. When a term with profound historical weight becomes a catch-all insult, it loses persuasive force outside sympathetic circles.
That dynamic was on full display Thursday.
If “The View” truly aspired to meaningful dialogue, it would allow dissenting voices to finish a sentence before issuing moral verdicts. Until then, the program serves less as a marketplace of ideas and more as a case study in why millions of Americans have grown weary of elite media scolding.