FLASHBACK: The View Decried Trump's 'Privileged' COVID Treatment

Nicholas Fondacaro | July 21, 2022
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With the announcement Thursday that President Biden has COVID comes the naked double standard in how the liberal media treat an ill Republican president. In a perfect example, The View gave Biden a “get well soon dude,” meanwhile they angrily denounced how then-President Trump was receiving "privileged treatment" "at taxpayer expense" and compared him to a dictator.

On October 5, 2020, the Monday after the news of Trump’s diagnosis broke, co-host Whoopi Goldberg opened the show by whining about his treatment. “He's the head of the free world. So he's -- whatever they're giving him, they're giving him to pump him up and make him look like he ain't sick,” she huffed.

By the end of the segment, she was angrily denouncing it.

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