Prime Video’s We Were Liars, adapted from E. Lockhart’s novel, has been trending in the top 5 on the platform. Its gripping plot and emotional twist deliver, but the “rich, white people bad” narrative sours the experience. The story follows the Sinclair family on their private island, Beechwood, near Martha’s Vineyard- a liberal’s nightmare of wealth and “privilege.” As one character proclaims, the family estate was “built on a foundation of hate.” Told through eldest Sinclair grandchild Cadence’s (Emily Alyn Lind) perspective, the show diverges from the book, per Elle, emphasizing a woke agenda. Notably, teen Johnny (Joseph Zada) is now gay, and patriarch Harris’s (David Morse) “racism and privilege” are emphasized. Cousins Cadence, Johnny, and Mirren (Esther McGregor) spend summers on Beechwood with Gat (Shubham Maheshwari), who joins his uncle Ed (Rahul Kohli), partner to Johnny’s mother, Carrie (Mamie Gummer). Ed and Gat, of Indian descent, are the story’s moral anchors, alongside the “woke” teens rejecting their white, rich privilege. The teens are nicknamed “The Liars” for their childhood antics. The show’s soundtrack, while praised, is marred by songs with lyrics that reject Jesus or ask, “Do you want to be a satanist with me?” The minor teen characters are also heavily sexualized and drink entire bottles of wine in front of their parents. In episode 4, “The Fourth of You Lie,” Gat teases Cadence about her book, Caste, which she calls a “performative social justice how-to-manual” but insists she’s reading to “be a better person. To see.” This echoes episode 3, “The Ties Were Black, the Lies Were White" where she defends challenging Harris, saying, “I’m trying to call out injustice and use my privilege for good.” Later in episode 4, Mirren and water taxi driver Ebon (Dempsey Bryk) bond over disdain for the secrets of the wealthy, citing “transphobe Republican senators with gay escorts on speed dial.” Mirren: You see that guy, Jake? He sells pills to sixth graders. And Deacon is so alt-right, he's a fascist. And Kurt sexually assaulted his best friend's sister when she was too drunk to fight him off. So yeah, I'm sorry, but they don't get to give my cousin any kind of attention. Ebon: How do you know that? Mirren: It's just like you said. People talk around people that they perceive to be invisible. And invisibility isn't just for water taxi drivers. It also applies to girls that they don't think are hot. Ebon: They think you're hot. Mirren: No, they think I'm weird. And weird cancels out hot, so. Ebon: You know, I sort of, uh, pride myself on being the keeper of Vineyard secrets. You know, dark sh*t, secret families, embezzlers, transphobe Republican senators that keep gay escorts on speed dial. Seriously, it sucks sometimes knowing all that. In episode 5, “Lying Together in a Silver Lining,” Harris is chastised by Cadence again while Johnny says he’s just old, not racist: Thatcher: Huh. Is that ivory? Carrie: They were my favorites. Mom actually said that they would be perfect for Red Gate. Penny: There's no way that she said that. Bess: That's not how... Harris: They belong where they are. I am not dead. Yet. Thatcher: You will want to include them in an asset inventory, though. Bess: What asset inventory? Harris: Thatcher and I have been going over the estate plan. Penny: Um, you're changing your will? Harris: To account for new circumstances. Johnny: Isn't ivory illegal, Granddad? I don't mean that illegal is a bad thing. Harris: No, you just need to know how to get it. Never take no for an answer. Yeah, this little slip of a China girl sold those to us in Shanghai. Cadence: Um, they're illegal for a reason, right? Maybe you could auction the statues off and use the money and donate it to a wildlife conservatory or something. Harris: Cadence, you're not to tell me what to do with my earnings. Your gran loved ivory. And, luckily, Orientals, they care far more about money than they do legalities. Cadence: I mean, you can't say "Oriental." Harris: Oriental? Cadence: Or "China girl." Harris: Oriental- it's an academic term. Just ask Edward Said. Your generation is so damn eager to be offended. Johnny: It's true. Outrage addiction. It's an epidemic. I blame TikTok. Cadence: You could have had my back. You know what he said was wrong. Johnny: I didn't say it. I didn't f*cking say it, okay? Also, it's not like he's racist, okay? He's just old. You just need to stay on his good side. If he says the kids these days are a bunch of woke freaks, then there's no harm in nodding and smiling. By episode 7, “Everybody Knows the Captain Lied,” the teens agree Harris is a “racist piece of sh*t” after Cadence calls lemons a “symbol of colonization": Cadence: Did you know lemons are kind of a symbol of colonization? It's true, Granddad. Yeah, Columbus brought citrus seeds from the Americas. So technically, our yearly lemon fest tradition only exists because of a genocidal slave trader. Harris: Whoa, fascinating. Penny: Well, that is her AP history talking, because she is determined to get into Harvard on her own merit, Dad. Harris: Well, I've been thinking a lot about Harvard lately. I think it might be nice to leave a good portion of my estate to my alma mater. Cadence: Actually, you know, I didn't learn the thing about Columbus and the lemons from history class, Mom. Gat read about it. He's the smartest Liar, right? We also learn Harris forced Carrie to choose between marrying Ed or having Harris cover up a crime Johnny committed. When Cadence confronts him over the matter, Harris insists he can’t be racist because he’s a Democrat: Cadence: Hey. What did they mean about Gat and Ed and the inheritance? Harris: Franklin? Eleanor? Cadence: Granddad. Harris: Where are the dogs? Cadence: Asleep in the laundry. Did you tell Carrie you would cut her off because she was with Ed? Harris: Carrie's a grown woman. She had a choice to make. Cadence: You never liked them, did you? Gat and Ed. You could barely stomach them. That's why you never use their names. Harris: On the contrary. They never liked us. No, I have high standards, Cadence. I will not apologize for them. Cadence: White standards? Harris: Are you saying I'm racist? Cadence: I think you don't like Gat with me, and you don't like Carrie with Ed. I think you tolerated them for a long time because you wanted to believe certain things about who you are. Harris: No, I believe in who we are. Who we have been for centuries. It's my duty to protect this family. Cadence: You tolerated Gat and Ed. But when Carrie talked about babies, it made you sick. You couldn't let them mess up the family. Sinclairs are blonde and square chinned. We freckle in the sun. That's what this is, isn't it? You don't want Indian grandchildren. You don't want to ruin the pictures. Harris: Oh, for Christ's sake, Cadence, I'm a Democrat! The writers think they’re clever by slapping a “Democrat” label on Harris as if they’re not biased, but they’re obviously implying only Republicans are racist. It’s a cynical sleight-of-hand as they wink at the audience and feed the tired narrative that all roads to racism lead to the political right. In episode 8, “My Friends are Lying in the Sun,” Harris softens after a tragic twist (a powerful, tear-jerking one at that), but Cadence still rejects him and Beechwood entirely. In the end, We Were Liars is a glossy, well-acted drama that hooks you with a twisty plot and sun-soaked island vibes, but its heavy-handed, woke sermonizing on wealth, whiteness and privilege feels more like a liberal college lecture than entertainment. Racism is evil, of course, but the show’s sanctimonious tone makes it hard to enjoy without rolling your eyes.

On Friday, it wasn’t that surprising CBS Mornings would be inconsolable over the “very sad” “kick in the stomach” Thursday night that parent company Paramount would be canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May, the home for late-night group therapy for liberals. While CBS said they “love this man” and are in awe of him, NBC’s Today even joined in and celebrated his “signature political commentary.” It’s a farce to act as though he has broad appeal and given the mountains of research compiled by our Alex Christy. For example, 82 percent of Colbert’s political jokes in 2024 targeted Republicans at 2,340 vs. only 479 to the left and 15 jokes about Fox News to a combined two about CNN and one about MSNBC. And for political guest, Colbert has cozied up to 29 liberals thus far in 2025 to zero on the right. To give one last example for good measure, Christy found in February Colbert and his fellow nighttime lefties focused on Trump nine times more in his first four weeks as President in 2025 vs. the first four weeks of Biden in 2021. CBS Mornings had a remarkable four teases in the first half-hour and a brief discussion after the Eye Opener before the six-minute-plus segment to lead off the second half-hour. Co-host Nate Burleson first brought up even before the teases, assuring viewers they’ll discuss “the shocking, late-night shake-up[.]” Co-host Gayle King acted in the brief banter like Colbert and not the show had died: “I know this is not going to be the same late night without Stephen Colbert. A lot – a lot of us waking up to this news going, what? Am I reading this right?” She then added the show had “changed the media landscape forever.” For a Democrat donor and Obama family friend, that kind of reaction squares.     Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers opened the lengthy wake with a tell on his politics (and as someone who’d know far-left “comedy” as his wife is a lead producer for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver): The Late Show with Stephen Colbert often brings the laughs, but he went on to say CBS is ending the number one show in late night. The final episode will air in May. CBS calls it a business decision. Colbert shared the news head-on, adding just a little bit of that trademark sense of humor. Fretting this was “the end of an era of one of the crown jewels of late night,” Duthiers went down memory lane through David Letterman’s opening spin on The Late Show before describing Colbert’s tenure this way, which was a tacit admission the show they’ve been heralding all morning is an indictment of their liberal bias: “Over the next few years, Colbert drew in millions with his biting sarcasm and critical commentary of the Trump administration.”     Duthiers hawked Colbert’s awards before arriving at the Paramount settlement with President Trump over last fall’s 60 Minutes Kamala Harris interview. Then, to his credit, he played sound from Puck’s Matthew Belloni, who broke through with a reality check about the financials of largesse, late-night productions on linear TV being black holes (click “expand”): DUTHIERS: The show is now the highest rated in its time slot and has earned 33 Emmy nominations and a Peabody award. It comes days after Colbert made headlines for criticizing leadership of Paramount, the parent company of CBS, for paying $16 million to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump. COLBERT [on CBS’s The Late Show, 07/14/25]: I am offended, and I don’t know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company. But just taking a stab at it, I’d say $16 million would help. [LAUGHTER] DUTHIERS: Trump’s lawsuit alleged CBS News deceptively edited an interview with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris before last year’s presidential election, an accusation Paramount has always said was completely without merit. Democratic Representative [sic] Adam Schiff, a guest on Colbert’s show last night, tweeted, "If Paramount and CBS ended [T]he Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.” In a statement, Paramount said: “This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.” MATT BELLONI: This is a total shock to Hollywood. DUTHIERS: Matt Belloni, founder of Puck, says late-night shows on every major network are seeing ratings decline as viewers turn to digital media instead. BELLONI: Late-night television, as we know it, is a dying breed. In five years, it is very doubtful that there will be any of these shows left. The economics simply does not make sense anymore because people are not watching linear television late at night. They are watching the clips from these shows on digital platforms, but the monetization of that content is not the same. Also on Friday, Belloni wrote at Puck that Colbert’s 200-person show cost “more than $100 million” to run but had been losing “more than $40 million” a year. Yikes. Duthiers resurfaced live with the other co-hosts, emphasizing “we’re all sad about this,” but we “we’ve got ten months to talk about…the legacy of The Late Show” and Colbert, whom he called “one of the nicest human beings in television.” The gush overflowed as they called him “genuine,” “immensely talent,” “sweet,” and “very good” and “a kick in the stomach” to see him go.     Even though he would say he “love[s] the guy” and even “get[s] nervous” around him, co-host Tony Dokoupil implicitly brought up Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld crushing all of them and plummeting TV revenue (click “expand”): DUTHIERS: Such a sweet guy, such a genuine guy, an immensely talented guy. Whatever he does next is going to be successful, I’m sure. KING: Very good at what he does. DUTHIERS: So good at what he does. KING: When you get the news, though, it does feel like a little bit of a kick in the stomach. DUTHIERS: For sure. KING: It’s very difficult to hear that this morning. DOKOUPIL: You have to explain to people, number one network show in late-night, but that slot has been shrinking. DUTHIERS: As Matt explains in our piece. BURLESON: The late-night slot. DUTHIERS: That late-night slot because people aren’t watching linear television. DOKOUPIL: And people are watching comedy of a right-wing variety on cable. That’s still growing. And, so, you got to put it into larger context. You’ve got hosts like Trevor Noah walking away….You have James Corden’s show….Other shows have been canceled, like Samantha Bee, not replaced. And revenue is apparently down 50 percent in the last six, seven years in the late-night category. DUTHIERS: Yeah. I’ll just say: many years ago, when I was at this Paramount and CBS party, all these famous people around, and I’m sitting wallflower against the wall, I don’t know anybody, I’m sort of holding my drink, and Stephen comes over to me and goes, “Vlad, good to see Ya. How you doing? Merry Christmas.” And I was like, “Stephen, you don’t have to talk to me.” (….) DOKOUPIL: I get nervous around him. He is such a genuine star. DUTHIERS: He really is. DOKOUPIL: I love the man and I wish the show was still going to be with us. BURLESON: No doubt it’s a tough pill to swallow. KING: He may be done at CBS in ten months, but I don’t think he’s done. DUTHIERS: Boom. I agree. DOKOUPIL: I agree, Gayle. He’ll be fine. DUTHIERS: I agree. BURLESON: And I’ll be watching whatever he does. KING: Me too. NBC’s Today was crestfallen, starting with having three teases about a competing network. Co-host Craig Melvin and Carson Daly said in the first and third teases respectively they would take a look at Colbert’s “place in TV history.” Entertainment correspondent Chloe Melas – who would admit she was a Colbert Report intern – conceded this was something “none of us expected, and it is pretty shocking news for late night fans, who were confused and angry about why CBS would pull the plug on such a popular show.” There again, the disconnect between the left and the rest of the country as the former views Colbert as a unifying force and the place to be, rather than late-night group therapy for liberals where potshots at conservatives as ignoramuses are played for applause and laughter. “Stephen Colbert’s announcement sending shockwaves through the television world…It’s a major shift in the late-night landscape and for the famous host. Colbert got his start on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and later won fans on the satirical The Colbert Report before taking over the network’s seat from David Letterman,” she added. Melas gushed the Colbert took over in 2015 by “making his own mark with interviews, performances, and his signature political commentary.” “Political commentary?” What quackery. Given the guest and joke breakdowns our Alex Christy chronicled, it’s wildly misleading to make it seem anything except for fiercely liberal.     No word on whether Melas believes it’s just “political commentary” for Colbert to say Trump is Vladimir Putin’s c**kholster. She ignored Gutfeld’s success and touted the partisan claims of “Senator Adam Schiff” (so no party ID) (click “expand”): MELAS: Despite an overall decline in late-night ratings, Colbert had the number one show for nine straight seasons. BILL CARTER: There’s nobody bigger on CBS than Stephen Colbert right now. Literally, they’re dropping their – their biggest star. MELAS: CBS executives saying in a statement: “This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related to the performance or content or other matters happening at Paramount. Colbert recently criticizing the $16 million settlement CBS’s parent company Paramount made with President Trump ahead of a pending merger with Skydance. Last night’s guest Senator Adam Schiff, saying: “If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for public reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.” Colbert thanking his 200-person staff, leaving fans to wonder what’s next when the show ends in May of next year. Back live, Melas admitted “other hosts have found success beyond late night” with Letterman having had a Netflix series and Conan O’Brien branching out to travel specials for HBO Max. Melvin expressed concern for his staff, which Melas reiterated is 200 strong. Daly had a smart follow-up, though: “Chloe, do you think this is a sign of like a decline of the late-night franchises across the board or does it seem like a one-off that’s related to the merger?” Melas intimated what her fellow corporate liberals have since said openly, which is Colbert is the victim of ruthless censorship by dictator Trump: “I think that this could be related to the merger. But at the end of the day, ratings for late-night are on the decline. I think that other late-night hosts should be a little concerned because these shows are really expensive to make and I want to point out that many – Stephen’s such a good guy. I interned for him.” She closed by taking a shot at CBS: “If they wanted to cut costs, there were other ways that CBS could have done this, cutting a night out of the lineup Colbert. Maybe reducing the staff size.” To see the relevant transcripts from July 18, click here (for CBS) and here (for NBC).

The liberal ladies of ABC News’s The View had a field day the week of July 14 as they tried to divide Republicans with the Jeffrey Epstein documents snafu. Smelling blood in the water, they kicked off nearly every episode that week talking about Epstein. Meanwhile, at the same time, they cut out a chunk of time to decry liberals who dared to criticize the Democratic Party’s messaging. In total, The View spent over 40 minutes (42 minutes and 25 seconds) talking about Epstein and boasting about how Republicans were at each other’s throats over the client list. “It looks like some conservatives are getting behind you-know-who's push to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein … Not everyone, however, on the right is falling in line, and some Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are chiming in as well.” moderator Whoopi Goldberg boasted on Tuesday. On Monday, Ana Navaro, one the purported Republicans on the panel, was gleeful. “Bring me some popcorn because watching them fight amongst themselves is the most entertaining thing I've seen all year,” she gushed. Co-host Joy Behar even took the opportunity to repeatedly suggest, without evidence, that President Trump was on the client list. “I've watching it, you know, he keeps protesting there's no list … I'm innocent. I did nothing. A lot of what he's saying and that makes me suspicious. That's all I'm saying, whether he's on it or not on it, I'm just suspicious,” she proclaimed. As NewsBusters previously reported, they cut out a little over six minutes (6 minutes and 39 seconds) during Tuesday’s episode to lash out former President Obama and billionaire Mark Cuban for daring to criticize the Democrats’ poor messaging strategy. Goldberg essentially argued that the “Trump sucks” campaign message worked because people were protesting: They were not navel gazing. It was older people saying, why are you touching my social security? It was not people whining. It was about people saying, why are you taking these rights from my child when my child was born here? This has not been about Democrats laying back. This has been about y'all. This has been about y'all, because their messaging was always the same. Democrats have been angry at what this man tried to do the last time. They've been angry this time. So, I – with much due respect to you both, I believe you are pointing the finger at the wrong person when you say Democrats.   Whoopi RAGES over Mark Cuban saying Dems need to have a better message than just "Trump sucks." After playing a clip of Cuban, she starts shouting: "Okay. Yeah, okay. So, let me remind everybody who was out on the front lines marching when we had the giant marches that went on,… pic.twitter.com/73RIbjMPDH — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 15, 2025   As NewsBusters has documented, ABC News’s The View was mostly a vector to pump Democratic Party propaganda to the masses and they publicly embraced that role multiple times. During an appearance on the show by sports commentator Stephen A. Smith earlier this year, Goldberg argued with Smith about the Democratic Party’s efforts in messaging themselves to voters in 2024 and defended The View’s role in that effort: SMITH: [Y]ou're talking about what he's doing. But before you brought that up you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I'm challenging you on that. That is not what they were doing. GOLDBERG: Oh, yes, it was. I was here. We did it. Given their sycophantic pride in being Democratic Party propagandists on daytime TV, it’s obvious  why former President Biden chose to go on their show in a failed attempt to defend his mental acuity. They even refused to have CNN’s Jake Tapper on their show to discuss his book about the Democratic cover up, which The View took part in. It’s obvious that The View co-host saw it as their mission to try to keep Democrats together by putting down intern decent, while trying to stoke divisions among their opponents.

The cuts to National Public Radio’s taxpayer funding have definitely been a long time coming. The leftist outlet is blaming climate change (there’s a surprise) for — wait for it — a lot of rain, in summertime! “Climate change is fueling brutal rainstorms. Here's how to stay safe,” read the ridiculous headline for NPR’s July 15 Consider This podcast by All Things Considered co-host Juana Summers (ironic) and Climate Desk correspondent Michael Copley, both of whom are not scientists. Of course, Summers exploited the Texas flood disasters as a springboard to blame rainfall and recent flooding writ large in the U.S. as being a byproduct of the left’s eternal boogeyman: climate change. “So why is climate change expected to make extreme rainstorms like the ones we've seen this month more common,” Summers teased. “To dig into that question and what people can do to prepare, I spoke with Michael Copley from NPR's climate desk.” Copley then went for the typical climate activist drivel: blame the darn humans! “So people keep releasing a ton of greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels like coal and oil, and that's raising global temperatures and fueling more intense rainstorms that drop more water in shorter periods of time,” he spewed. What’s telling is that he said the quiet part out loud when he prefaced his statement by admitting,“So in general, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.” No kidding, Sherlock! But he insisted that “we're going to see more extreme weather events as the Earth keeps heating up, and that's going to pose bigger threats to people and their homes and cities.”  But as CO2 Coalition Science and Research Associate Vijay Jayaraj wrote in an April 21 op-ed using monsoon-afflicted India as a case study for summer climate, “The average annual rainfall between 2000 and 2023 shows us that there is no crisis. The early 2000s experienced several significantly wet years, with 2003 recording nearly 49 inches of precipitation.” In addition, wrote Jayaraj, “From the mid-2000s to the early 2010s, there was a notable decline in rainfall, with 2009 being especially arid.” What the data indicates is that there is “no discernible trend of increasing or decreasing precipitation throughout the period.” The overarching principle, Jayaraj concluded, was that “climate fluctuates” in summer. Did Summers or Copley consider that possibility? Probably not. So what’s Copley’s solution to the climate problem? Ah yes, just throw an ungodly bunch of tax money at it: “[Columbia Business School climate economist Gernot] Wagner says communities need to invest billions and billions to deal with more extreme weather.”  Listen to NPR's entire 10-minute climate propaganda below. What’s even more telling was how Copley managed to insert radio and television as being indispensable tools for issuing weather alerts, given that both NPR and its federally-funded counterpart PBS were on the verge of getting their tax funding stripped. “It's important to make sure that you're getting the emergency alerts. People get those through their cellphones, oftentimes. They're often - they're also broadcast over the radio and television,” he said. NPR CEO Katherine Maher went on the record June 12 kvetching over how if NPR’s funding is cut, “millions of Americans will no longer have access to locally owned, independent, nonprofit media and will bear the risk of living in a news desert, missing their emergency alerts, and hearing silence where classical, jazz and local artists currently play.” Talk about being overdramatic.  Leave it to NPR to capitalize on crises in order to protect its bottom line. A Media Research Center analysis concluded that “local news” is rare news on NPR. In fact, the bulk of NPR affiliate programming (ranging from 90-100%) aired across the country is supplied by the flagship stations in major markets like Boston, New York, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. On the flip side, only an infinitesimal 5.4 percent of daily programming is dedicated to local news across all 50 states.  Funny how that works, isn’t it? The United States Senate recently voted to approve President Donald Trump’s recissions package clawing $1.1 billion funding away from NPR and PBS through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The House of Representatives, in turn, later passed the package in a midnight vote and sending it to President Trump’s desk. At least Americans won’t have to worry about making any more tax contributions to the fanatical servants of Gaia at NPR for the time being. Good riddance. MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider contributed to this report.

It was a normal day on ABC’s The View on Thursday morning. Meaning a full-blown, unhinged meltdown over President Donald Trump and an accidental live dramatization of what media spin looks like in its purest form. ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg even went on to claim that Americans were “already living in the tyranny” of Trump. If you ever wondered what happens when a group of TV personalities watch half of a Stacey Abrams video on TikTok– yes, TikTok– and start quoting it like scripture, today’s episode delivered: America was apparently already in tyranny, Trump was a dictator, and we’re redefining citizenship on a daily basis.     Reacting to Trump firing now-former federal prosecutor Maureen Comey (the daughter of disgraced former FBI Director James Comey), co-host Sunny Hostin declared: “This is all part of a plan towards - a step towards authoritarianism, towards a dictator and fascism.” Because firing a DOJ prosecutor automatically made someone the next Mussolini. Never mind that Comey might have mishandled major cases. No, it must be part of “Project 2025,” the mysterious right-wing hydra that lives rent-free in the heads of the liberal pundit class. When Sara Haines dared to suggest a non-conspiratorial explanation like Comey “overshot the Diddy charges,” Sunny Hostin dismissed it outright, with zero evidence, and huffed a sharp, “No way.” That also must have also made President Bill Clinton a fascist, tyrannical dictator, since he eliminated over 400,000 federal employees despite pledging to only eliminate 100,000 via an executive order during his presidency. A gargantuan number compared to Trump’s cuts, which has eliminated around 59,000 positions thus far. But, of course, that didn’t fit the narrative so don’t expect to find that on the script. The conversation naturally shifted to The View’s evergreen topic: Trump is a dictator and we are all going to die.  When Hostin stated that “eliminating political opponents” was a step towards tyranny, Goldberg exasperatedly shouted, “We are already in the Tyranny!” followed by a gaggle of agreement from the rest of the panel. Well, thank goodness she could say that, on national television, without being arrested or censored, since apparently we live in a tyrannical dictatorship. Hopefully, Big Brother won’t find out and send her to a re-education prison a la 1984. But the icing on the cake? Goldberg’s hilarious claim that we no longer even know who counts as an American: “We don’t know who is considered American by America, who has changed the rules every couple of days...” Changed every couple of days? No examples. No policies cited. Just vibes and liberal rage. Let’s offer a reality check. Contrary to Goldberg’s spastic rage episode, the rules of citizenship haven’t “changed every couple of days.” The standards for legal immigration, asylum, and naturalization are codified in U.S. law, debated in Congress, and adjudicated through the courts. That’s called a republic, not a dictatorship. In fact, one could argue it’s the Biden administration that blurred the line by letting millions cross the southern border without consequence while ICE agents were told to stand down. But sure, tell us again how Trump was redefining “American.” The panel kept tying everything back to the ominous “Project 2025,” a conservative policy blueprint they’ve apparently decided was comparable to Mein Kampf. Hostin breathlessly warned, “This is part of Project 2025. This is part of the plan.” As if traditional conservative policy proposals that have been published by private think-tank The Heritage Foundation before the beginning of every presidential term since 1981 were somehow now codified into the Trump Administration. This segment wasn’t news. It was group hysteria from liberal elites who still couldn’t process 2016. It was a masterclass in spin: fearmongering, hysteria, and exactly zero accountability from ABC News. The entire transcript is below click "expand" to read. ABC’s The View July 17, 2025 11:07:27 AM ET ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: He can call up Fox News primetime hosts, and they’re going to say, “Never mind, we're not talking about this anymore,” but something he wasn't banking on that's new this term is this ecosystem of podcasters that helped put him into office– JOY BEHAR: Alex Jones. GRIFFIN: –who have tens of millions of listeners, Joe Rogan, Theo Von, who are not beholden to him. They truly aren't and they are not going to let this go. If Donald Trump calls him up and says, “Joe Rogan, stop talking about this–” BEHAR: Yeah, yeah. SARA HAINES: He’s gonna talk more! GRIFFIN: –Joe Rogan does not care at all. He will talk about it more, and he's never had that, a truly unaccountable to him, right-wing media ecosystem. BEHAR: Yeah, yeah. BEHAR: So, he doesn’t know how to handle it? SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah, I don’t think he knows how to handle it, I agree with that. I don't think he was banking on it, but the one thing, you know, I think if you look at it on a macro level, something that's really disconcerting is the fact that the Justice Department fired Maurene Comey, I mean, this is– this was the lead prosecutor in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, the lead prosecutor in the Jeffrey Epstein case before he killed himself awaiting trial. The lead prosecutor in the Diddy case. She's been with the Justice Department for over ten years. She led the public corruption section. I mean, this is– she's one of the best of the best and so, you know, generally federal prosecutors are protected somewhat, especially federal employees from being basically fired for political reasons, that's something that we have not seen in a long time. And I was reading something, and I think a lot of people should take a look at this, that Stacey Abrams wrote about how tyranny takes hold and there are ten steps to autocracy and one of those steps is to harass opposition parties, to harass the civil sector and especially to harass the legal industry and to take out your political opponents, and so we stopped talking about Project 2025 a long time ago. This is part of Project 2025. This is part of the plan, so let's remember that these things that seem to be a distraction, that he seems to be doing this and he seems to be doing that, this is all part of a plan towards a step towards authoritarianism, towards a dictator and fascism. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, let’s say we’re kinda in the au- author- authoritative. We’re in this. HOSTIN: I believe we are at this point. When you’re seeing a lead prosecutor, one of the best of the best be fired without cause from her job at the Justice Department and she– BEHAR: That’s a red flag, isn’t it? HOSTIN: It is a red flag and that is what we see dictators do, so I'd like people to actually sort of look at it from up here instead of looking at it very closely. This is part of a master plan. HAINES: None could be because she overshot the Diddy charges? HOSTIN: No way. (...) 11:10:39 AM ET BEHAR: Again, the question, is he losing it? GOLDBERG: Well, you know what? There's so much going on,-- HOSTIN: Unless it’s part of Project 2025. GOLDBERG: There's so much going on, and people– his people, his base are pissed. The farmers are pissed. People who have farms are pissed. People who are trying to pay their taxes and do all the stuff that you are expected to do as an American are pissed because you don't know where your Social Security check, when it's coming, if it's coming. We are, like, they've been trying to sort of keep us off-kilter. It's interesting that this is the one thing that has solidified— HAINES: Stuck GOLDBERG: — everything and, okay, where is it? GRIFFIN: Yeah. Yeah. GOLDBERG: And what is going on it’s really interesting and— BEHAR: They’re mad. They’re mad. GOLDBERG: They are mad. And they should be mad! They should be mad! BEHAR: You see it all over social media. GOLDBERG: Yeah, you see, I don’t read it. BEHAR: I do. Well, I was– GOLDBERG: I don’t read it, so I’ll take your word for it. BEHAR: Yah. GOLDBERG: People are mad. BEHAR: They’re very angry with him! GOLDBERG: Well, they should be angry with him. BEHAR: And that’s the beauty of this whole story. GOLDBERG: Young people should be angry with him, older people should be angry with him, women should be angry with him. Anybody who isn't considered now an American, which we don't know what that is anymore. We don't know who is considered American by America who has changed the rules every couple of days on where– what's going– kids are going to court by themselves. HOSTIN: That’s a step toward tyranny. BEHAR: We always thought that– GOLDBERG: We’re already in the tyranny! BEHAR: But– GOLDBERG: It’s not a step! We in it. HOSTIN: I would agree with that.