The liberal ladies of The View had totally measured and sane reactions, during Thursday’s show, to the Trump administration announcing they were looking to ax the government bloat at Department of Education. Not really. According to ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin, President Trump want to “create” a “permanent underclass” of “cheap labor.” And using her platform at ABC News, she proclaimed: “That is the bottom line, and that’s what they’re doing.”
Hostin began her unhinged proclamation by misleading the ABC News audience about the origin of the idea to do away with the Department of Education. She falsely suggested it was the spawn of Project 2025, despite the fact that conservatives had been talking about axing the department for many years.
What she was doing was continuing the liberal media narrative of trying to tie everything back to Project 2025, no matter how long the ideas had been out there. The liberal media had tried to suggest ubiquitous Republican ideas such as border security and expanding domestic oil production to the products of Project 2025.
That’s when Hostin pivoted to talking about the “much more nefarious reason for” looking to get rid of the Department of Education. To prey on misconceptions about the role DoE played, she asserted that without it, future Americans would be a dumber and “cheaper” workforce:
I think it’s because without education, you get cheaper labor. I think what they want to do is create in the United States a permanent underclass, a permanent cheap workforce, because educated workers cost more. That is the bottom line, and that’s what they’re doing.
Of course, she provided no evidence of what she claimed were the facts, faux Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin was as useless as ever since she didn’t push back on Hostin’s lies at all, and none of them seemed to be aware that the states already controlled their curriculums. Particularly co-host Sara Haines, who feared the states overseeing their educations because “there are some really religious states.”
Meanwhile, they had spent weeks decrying Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) for his state’s black history curriculum. Oh, what short memories they have!
Former teacher and “comedian” Joy Behar also had some rage at America she just had to get out of her. She was very upset that America got her name from “a white European…man”:
In that case, this country that we’re in was settled by indigenous people, right? And yet they name the country after an Italian white man, Amerigo Vespucci. That is what America is named after: Amerigo Vespucci, a white European. Why is it named after a white man?
She also took issue with Trump saying America didn’t rank highly in education compared to other countries, but she couldn’t state the numbers either:
BEHAR: First of all, they’re lying. He’s a liar. The United States is not ranked 40. The United States –
GOLDBERG: It isn’t? What is it ranked, Joy?
BEHAR: It depends. Well, the U.S. is ranked up there; better. It’s not 40. They just make things up.
“We’re 29th in the world in math and we’re in the 20s globally for just across the board,” noted Farah Griffin.
The transcript it is below. Click „expand“ to read:
ABC’s The ViewFebruary 13, 202511:03:05 a.m. Eastern
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, is completely deleting these agencies and kicking education back to the states – because that’s what this means, that’s what it mean – is this going to make things run more smoothly? Maybe it will.
JOY BEHAR: First of all, they’re lying. He’s a liar. The United States is not ranked 40. The United States –
GOLDBERG: It isn’t? What is it ranked, Joy?
BEHAR: It depends. Well, the U.S. is ranked up there; better. It’s not 40. They just make things up.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: We’re 29th in the world in math and we’re in the 20s globally for just across the board.
BEHAR: It’s not 40.
GOLDBERG: It’s not 40.
BEHAR: Right. They get these numbers from Elon Musk’s son, the little kid. That’s where they’re coming up with this stuff.
It ranks number 6 in reading, 12 in science, 28 in math. Okay, math is hard. But it’s not 40.
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11:05:27 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: It’s not really about saving money.
Behar: No.
HOSTIN: I think there’s a much more nefarious reason for it.
BEHAR: Which is?
HOSTIN: I think it’s because without education, you get cheaper labor. I think what they want to do is create in the United States a permanent underclass, a permanent cheap workforce, because educated workers cost more. That is the bottom line, and that’s what they’re doing.
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11:20:15 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: In that case, this country that we’re in was settled by indigenous people, right? And yet they name the country after an Italian white man, Amerigo Vespucci. That is what America is named after: Amerigo Vespucci, a white European. Why is it named after a white man?
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