{"id":587523,"date":"2026-04-16T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587523\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:12:10","slug":"the-view-co-hosts-quarrel-over-embracing-ex-trump-supporters-such-as-marjorie-taylor-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587523\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The View’ co-hosts quarrel over embracing ex-Trump supporters such as Marjorie Taylor Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe View\u201d hosts feuded Wednesday over whether MAGA defectors like former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene should be embraced now that they have turned against President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Co-host Joy Behar said both sides of the political aisle needed reconciliation, saying, \u201cThey both have major issues. They recognize things they\u2019ve said in the past about each other that are horrendous, on both sides actually, but it seems to me that they are seeing the emergency we\u2019re in right now with Trump and the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI always will welcome \u2014 you\u2019ve seen the light, come right into my tent,\u201d Behar said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of room for the never-Trumpers and the non-Trumpers. Maybe that\u2019s what it\u2019s going to be now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow co-host Sara Haines blasted the idea, saying that embracing people on the right would be unwise if they still hold ideological opinions and associations she finds problematic.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, these details matter,\u201d Haines said. \u201cJust because she agrees, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t like Trump,\u2019 I\u2019m not like, \u2018Great, welcome aboard.\u2019 You\u2019ve got to look at the character of the people you\u2019re speaking of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whoopi Goldberg attends the 10th annual Love Rocks NYC concert benefiting God\u2019s Love We Deliver at the Beacon Theatre on Thursday, March 5, 2026, in New York. Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what should we do? Reject her altogether?\u201d Behar asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d co-host Sunny Hostin said. \u201cWe should reject her altogether. I\u2019m sorry, Joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the debate and crosstalk continued, Hostin grilled Behar, asking, \u201cWhy are you so welcoming, Joy?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t hold grudges,\u201d Behar said. \u201cIf they want to come over to my side, I\u2019m taking them. [Greene] speaks to the MAGA base.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe View\u201d has had Greene on the program twice in the last six months. In November, while still in Congress, Greene surprised the co-hosts by praising them for their civility.<\/p>\n

In January, immediately after leaving Congress over differences with the Trump administration, Greene rejected pleas from the liberal co-hosts for her to become a Democrat.<\/p>\n

Rep. Ilhan Omar<\/a>, D-Minn., suggested Sunday on \u201cPod Save America\u201d that Democrats should act with grace toward former Trump supporters who have broken with him on key issues after host Tommy Vietor played a viral clip of Greene in a recent interview urging the American people to \u201copen their eyes\u201d and realize that Trump is \u201cnot the same man that we supported\u201d a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Omar, who traded barbs with the Georgia Republican for years, mentioned that she praised Greene on the House floor before her departure for condemning the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, during a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg sparked \u201cThe View\u201d discussion by playing clips from both interviews and saying, \u201cReally, the question is, can voters on both sides of the aisle move past this insanity and do something about what we\u2019re seeing? Can people \u2014 can people say, \u2018Yes, we disagree on many things, but we agree on this, that this cannot continue. This house cannot stand.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s the key,\u201d Goldberg added, arguing that what Greene identifies as politically or plans to do does not matter as much as what she tells her fellow conservatives that the Trump presidency they got is not the one they envisioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorrect, she needs to do that,\u201d Hostin said. \u201cBut in terms of welcoming her with open arms like Joy wants to do and give her a big bear hug, I\u2019m not going to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hostin blasted Americans who voted for Trump three times, claiming they turned the country into a mess.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we need someone like her,\u201d Behar argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need her, but you don\u2019t need to welcome her. I\u2019m sorry, it is unforgivable,\u201d Hostin insisted, eventually being told by Goldberg to calm down.<\/p>\n

Whoopi Goldberg attends the \u201cChe Tempo Che Fa\u201d TV show at Nove Studios on April 13, 2025 in Milan, Italy. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Greene did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarjorie Taylor Greene is a quitter who is pathetically trying to stay relevant by going on liberal media shows to bash President Trump,\u201d White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, Trump Derangement Syndrome has rotted former Congresswoman Greene\u2019s peanut-sized brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed with Behar on trying to find common ground on key issues with people of otherwise opposing viewpoints. She went on to note how there have been Democrats who have bluntly said they don\u2019t need to win Republican votes, only to find they were electorally defeated.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to be willing to grow your coalition with people who got duped, who thought the economy was going to be stronger, thought the border was going to be secure, but it was only going to be the bad guys that were taken out, and you\u2019ve got to welcome them in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Goldberg argued that people like Greene have a unique power to persuade her fellow conservatives to oppose the Trump administration because she voted lockstep with him on the vast majority of issues in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a bear hug,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018OK, finally, I\u2019m glad you saw the light. Go and tell it on the mountain.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe View\u201d hosts feuded Wednesday over whether MAGA defectors like former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene should be embraced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[12,88,13409,10815,2516,92,14300],"class_list":["post-587523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-media","tag-the-view","tag-tv","tag-whoopi-goldberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}