Patriot Brief
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What Happened: Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin attacked President Trump on The View over his Truth Social post referencing Rob Reiner’s long history of anti-Trump rhetoric.
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Why It Matters: The reaction highlighted the media’s refusal to allow Trump to speak plainly while excusing years of attacks against him.
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Bottom Line: The View’s outrage was less about tragedy and more about enforcing the same old double standard when Trump tells the truth.
The ladies of The View were once again beside themselves Monday after President Donald Trump refused to play along with the media’s preferred script.
This time, the meltdown centered on Trump’s blunt Truth Social post following the deaths of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele. While Trump called the situation “very sad,” he also didn’t shy away from pointing out what he described as Reiner’s long-running obsession with attacking him.
That was apparently too much honesty for daytime television.
Sunny Hostin attempted to read Trump’s remarks on air before Whoopi Goldberg cut her off. “Don’t read it. Just tell them that it’s there,” Goldberg snapped, making it clear she didn’t want viewers to hear Trump’s words directly.
Hostin went on anyway, complaining that Trump referenced “Trump derangement syndrome” and arguing that Americans should instead be focused on gun violence.
Goldberg then launched into a rambling, emotional monologue that managed to connect Trump’s post to nearly every grievance in the progressive catalog. She accused the president of lacking shame and suggested he had somehow failed every demographic group imaginable.
“I don’t understand the man in that White House,” Goldberg said, accusing Trump of hypocrisy and moral failure before declaring, “You ain’t my president, man.”
That line, of course, drew applause from the studio audience.
What went unmentioned was that Trump did acknowledge the tragedy, or that Reiner spent years publicly attacking Trump in increasingly personal terms. The View hosts seemed less interested in facts than in using another tragic story to air their familiar outrage.
For Trump supporters, the exchange was yet another reminder of the double standard. When Trump speaks plainly, he’s condemned. When liberal figures hurl insults for years, it’s treated as courage.