After a week filled with incendiary fan reaction and on-camera clashes over political topics, The View stars have given guest cohost and MAGA supporter Savannah Chrisley a report card for her performance at the table.
Longtime cohost Joy Behar kicked off Chrisley’s final day on The View by admitting that she wasn’t sure of how to properly pronounce the Chrisley Knows Best reality TV star’s last name.
“Savannah Chrisley — it’s Chrisley, right?” the 83-year-old asked the guest panelist, whose parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, were given a presidential pardon by Donald Trump amid their combined 19-year prison sentence for bank fraud and tax evasion.
Behar continued, telling the audience, “She is back as our guest cohost. I believe this is your last day though. For now, for now! You never know around here!”
Chrisley then voiced her gratitude for the weeklong stint, as she filled in for permanent cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, who’s on maternity leave.
“I just want to thank you all for giving me a voice and allowing me to sit at the table and believe totally differently, but have conversations that are hard and respectful,” Chrisley said. “It’s the moments off camera that people don’t get to see where we really do have more in common than we are different.”
She explained to the personalities that she recently told her father that “Joy is my favorite” on the show, and said that he replied, “That’s unexpected!” given the pair’s difference in political beliefs.
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“I’m glad we’ve gone through a week and nobody needs electroshock therapy,” Republican commentator Ana Navarro joked, while Sunny Hostin looked toward Chrisley and smiled as she said, “It’s been a pleasure.”
Behar sent the cohost off with a positive message, telling her, “You were very good and very sweet. We all like you very much. I’m happy to have had you here.”
The cohosts’ words came after two consecutive days of tense back-and-forths with Chrisley, who on Thursday defended Trump against Hostin’s claim that the president is racist.
“Let’s call a thing a thing. Donald Trump is a racist. There’s no question in my mind,” Hostin said before invoking a recent controversy. “The most recent thing that he did by posting on Truth Social the Obamas depicted as apes in The Lion King, [when] there are no apes in The Lion King, that was a racist act. He tried to blame a staffer.”
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Chrisley defended Trump, telling Hostin, “It was in fact a staffer who posted it,” and repeatedly pushing back against the former federal prosecutor’s insistence that Trump is racist.
Earlier this week, the panel also united to challenge Chrisley’s false claim about New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, after moderator Whoopi Goldberg singled out Trump for consistently bumbling through press statements, noting that she “can’t take it from the guy who says he’s the leader of the free world.”
Chrisley held firm in her defense of the man who pardoned her parents, telling the stars, “I understand that wholeheartedly. AOC, though, is also the Democrats’ pick for the next election.”
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The group quickly replied, with Goldberg and Sara Haines shaking their heads, as the EGOT-winning Ghost actress stressed, “No, no, no!”
Other guest cohosts set to fill in for Griffin over the weeks ahead include Whitney Cummings and controversial former View panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who publicly slammed the program and Behar at the top of 2025.
The View airs weekdays on ABC.
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