‘We're Mad as Hell’: The View Commiserate Over Floundering ‘Resistance’ to Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | February 17, 2025
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In a pre-recorded episode of ABC’s The View, the liberal ladies celebrated Presidents Day Monday by being “mad as hell” about President Trump’s executive orders and commiserating on ways to help the “resistance” to stop spinning its wheels. Together, they threw around empty buzzwords about the need to “build community support,” look at “how they're communicating,” how they “need to form alliances,” and that they need to build a “website.” But when one floated the idea of actually talking to Trump supporters, moderator Whoopi Goldberg didn’t want to have any of it.

After playing a soundbite of War Room host Steve Bannon talking about Trump flooding the zone with executive activities to keep “the opposition” off balance, Goldberg seemed confused about whether or not that included the Trump haters of The View. “Are we the ‘other side’ he's talking about?” she asked the table.

“He goes on to say that the opposition party is the media,” warned chronically aggrieved co-host Sunny Hostin. She went on to warn that flooding the zone was “a deliberate tactic used by regimes, used by powerful entities to manipulate and control people by bombarding them with so much information that they feel overwhelmed. It's called the shock and awe tactic.”

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