Madison Square Garden Rally Fallout: ‘The View’s Sunny Hostin Says, “Don’t Tell Me Not To Be Offended! It Was A White Nationalist Rally!”
UPDATE, with video: The fall out continues from the wildly controversial Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden continues two days after the event – and the women of ABC’s The View are among those not quite ready to let bygones be bygones.
Watch The View segment below.
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Some background: On Sunday evening, Trump’s MSG rally was loaded with speakers who spewed an unending barrage of racist, misogynist and homophobic slurs barely disguised as jokes. Most immediately notorious was MAGA comic Tony Hinchcliffe describing Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
On The View today, the show aired other clips from the rally, including the now-familiar, very tired slurs about “pimps,” “Samoan-Malaysian,” “the devil,” etc.
Also shown was Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance telling his audience that while he had not seen the jokes, “we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing.”
To which View moderator Whoopi Goldberg, after watching the Vance clip, said, “Spoken like the…person you are. They were offending your family as well, they were talking about all kinds of folks, JD, but you didn’t see the joke. And you and your boss were there, at this rally.”
Said cohost Sunny Hostin, “I think it’s really easy for those who aren’t otherized to not be offended and to tell us, those that are marginalized and otherized, to not be offended. Well, I’m offended. I was offended by what you said during the rally not only about my community but all communities. I think we need to call that rally what it was: It was a white nationalist rally with a white nationalist platform. Please read Project 2025. Please read Project 25. Those are the policies if Donald Trump gets elected…It is the worst vision of America that could possible exist.”
As a rally clip of Tucker Carlson played in which he intentionally misidentified Kamala Harris a “Samoan-Malaysian” and “low-IQ,” a View audience member shouted out, very loudly, “Loser!”
Joy Behar joined in, saying “All that was missing were the German subtitles. And by the way when Tim Walz said that [JD Vance] was weird, Vance was all bent out of shape. Can’t you take a joke, JD?”
Behar then got a bit more serious to discuss the art of comedy and how it relates to Tony Hinchcliffe, the MAGA comic who made the infamous joke about Puerto Rico. “We have a rule in comedy: If you’re a good comedian you don’t punch down, you punch up. You go after the big guys. You don’t take a shot at a little island that has people who have problems because of bigotry….You don’t do that type of joke at this Nuremberg rally.”
Cohost Sara Haines took issue with the right-wing’s use of tampon jokes as a weapon, something she said won’t win over any female voters.
“And what was Dr. Phil doing there?,” interjected Behar. “That was a major disappointment.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin responded that Dr. Phil attended the rally to go “after diversity. And he literally got his job because of Oprah…”
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