ABC’s The View continues to be an embarrassment, but even by their low standards, the latest episode was particularly disgraceful. Instead of engaging in substantive debate, the show’s oldest members, Whoopi Goldberg (69) and Joy Behar (82), decided that the best use of their platform was to mock and bully a 4-year-old child—Elon Musk’s son, X.
Yes, you read that correctly. Grown women, senior citizens at that, mocked a toddler on national television simply because they don’t like his father.
The segment began with Goldberg attempting to discuss Musk’s recent press conference at the Oval Office regarding the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But, of course, Behar couldn’t resist making the conversation about Musk’s child:
GOLDBERG: “Yeah. So yesterday Elon Musk took his son X to a press conference—”
BEHAR: “X?”
GOLDBERG: “I did not name the child.”
(Laughter erupts.)
BEHAR: “That’s the kid’s name?”
GOLDBERG: “And I don’t want to hear any more mess about our names, okay? Okay?”
It didn’t stop there. Goldberg kept calling him “little X” in a mocking tone, and Behar joked that Musk must have another child named ‘Instagram’.
Not one of the other panelists stepped in to say, ‘Maybe let’s not bully a child on live TV’. Instead, they just laughed along, as if it’s perfectly fine to go after the toddler of a man they dislike.
Then came the most ridiculous moment of all: Sunny Hostin, whose real name is Asunción Cummings, decided to blame Musk for apartheid—despite the fact that he was a child during that time and didn’t become a U.S. citizen until 2002.
HOSTIN: “And what is rich to me—again, he is not elected, and he is talking about our American democracy. A man who grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era, benefited from apartheid. And apartheid is the very antithesis to our American democracy because in South Africa today, there is—let’s see—81 percent of South Africa’s population are black Africans, yet only four percent of those black Africans own the land.”
Let’s break this down:
- Musk was born in 1971. Apartheid ended in 1990. He was 18 years old when it ended. What exactly was a teenager supposed to do about a government policy before he was old enough to vote?
- If “benefiting from apartheid” is an issue, then why aren’t they targeting other South Africans who moved to America?
- Hostin’s “apartheid is still happening” line is misleading at best. Apartheid officially ended over three decades ago, yet she makes it sound as if Musk is personally hoarding land from black South Africans.
And let’s not forget the most hypocritical part: Hostin’s own family were Spanish slave-owners.
If guilt by ancestry is the new standard, perhaps Hostin should take a long, hard look at her own family’s history before making dishonest attacks against someone who was literally a child during apartheid.
The fact that The View spent an entire segment mocking a child and peddling historically illiterate nonsense is nothing new. But it does serve as yet another reminder of what left-wing media is really about:
- They don’t care about facts.
- They don’t care about consistency.
- They don’t care about hypocrisy.
- And they certainly don’t care about the children they claim to “protect.”
