The liberal ladies of The View love to claim that since they’re an ABC News program that they have to live up to ABC News’s journalistic standards. If that was true, it meant the network’s standards didn’t amount to much. As we’ll explore in this 2025 worst of The View recap, they had no problem with pushing baseless and heinous conspiracy theories about President Trump and his supporters. Whether it was claims of stealing the 2024 presidential election, Trump planning to implement martial law, Trump threatening to kill the families GOP lawmakers, or more claims of stealing elections, The View was not afraid to poison America’s body politic with harmful nonsense. NewsBusters presents The View-Anon conspiracy theory web. Whoopi: ‘Any One of Us Could Find Ourselves Being Deported’ By Trump Despite that the fact that the cast was made up of five natural born American citizens and one legally naturalized citizen, moderator Whoopi Goldberg claimed that they all could be deported at any moment: GOLDBERG: And – You just got to keep your eyes open, y'all, because if they can just come up and take somebody because they've made a decision that you're supposed to be that person, any one of us could find ourselves being deported to some country we've never been. ANA NAVARRO: Don't give him any ideas, girl.     Looney Behar Floats Conspiracy Trump Crashing Stocks for ‘Martial Law’ Co-host Joy Behar was the show’s most prolific conspiracy theory spinner. In April, she claimed that Trump was planning to crash the stock market so he could help his wealth friends get good deals on stocks. But things took an even darker turn when she claimed the was to take dictatorial control of the country through martial law: BEHAR: If he tanks the entire- what do you call it- HOSTIN: Um- Economy? Stock market?. BEHAR: The stock market. Then all his billionaire friends can swoop in and buy everything low. (...) BEHAR: And how broke will people get? and how many jobs will be lost? And then he can- he can say, ‘Well, there's too much chaos, and now we're going to have martial law in this country,” and he becomes a dictator. I mean- I don't know- that may be out- out of the- bounds- GOLDBERG: Anything is possible. BEHAR: -But it's possible.     Sunny Hostin Insists Trump 'Certainly' Is 'Guilty of Insider Trading' Instead of seeing the 90-day pause on tariffs for most of the world and the rallying stock market as a sign of trade negotiations going well, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin used her platform on the show to accuse President Trump of “certainly” being “guilty of insider trading.” Her evidence? A social media post vaguely touting the market. She also whined that nothing was going to happen to him because the conspiracy also included federal investigative agencies (not because no crime was committed): HOSTIN: And that's really a whistle to those billionaires that can -- or people that have money that can buy low and then the stock market, prices go up. That's generally called insider trading and that would ordinarily trigger an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. We know now that that's not probably going to happen because all of these government agencies have been, you know, destroyed and dismantled. But someone with knowledge of an economic policy change, that would cause the markets to shoot back up right before posting about how great a time it is to buy right before the policy change happened, would certainly be guilty of insider trading, in my view. ABC News Host Suggests Trump RIGGED 2024 Presidential Election The View previously made a big deal about refusing to have election deniers on the show. But what happens when the co-hosts were election deniers? May 1 was the first time the cast floated the idea that Trump had somehow rigged the 2024 presidential election. According to Goldberg, Trump might have tipped his hand by saying investors knew Trump was going to get elected again: GOLDBERG: I want to remind people that he took credit for Biden’s economy – BOOMING economy, claiming investors knew he was going to win. I think he should stop saying that because you’re going to make somebody investigate how investigators would know you were going to win. I'm just putting that out there. You know.     ABC News: Musk Killed 300,000 Kids, Knows How Trump Stole Election A little over month later, The View made their second assertion that Trump stole the 2024 presidential election. This time however, they claimed billionaire Elon Musk was involved and for good measure they added that he killed 300,000 kids. Hostin was the one behind the claim about Musk killing that slew of children: “[H]is cutbacks on medical research cost the lives – for the foreign aid, cost 300,000 lives mostly children. That's the damage that Elon Musk did.” It was Goldberg who floated the idea that Musk had the dirt on how Trump won: GOLDBERG: And then that if one was going to think, you know, ‘ooh, maybe this happened.’ You know, Elon knows the 411 on everything. HOSTIN: Yeah, he got all that information. GOLDBERG: He knows how all this came down. ‘God Knows What Else He May Have Done’: ABC Suggests Musk Stole 2024 Presidential Election The third time they suggested something untoward was the reason Trump was president came in July (third month in a row). This time, it was Ana Navarro lashing at Musk, claiming he might have done something to rig the election and created a “problem” for America: NAVARRO: But I think Elon Musk needs to look at what he did in this past election. SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes. NAVARRO: We have a broken system right now because there is no oversight. We have a broken system because there is a President who doesn't believe in the Constitution and who defies judicial orders. And Elon Musk and his 300-plus-million dollars, and God knows what else he may have done that we don't know of, own the problem that he created.     The View Finds It Suspicious Army, Trump Share a Birthday; Bash Troops June 14 is the birthday of the U.S. Army. It’s also Trump’s birthday. Both are easily researchable facts and has been true for 79 years (Trump’s age), but The View found it suspicious as if it wasn’t true. Of course, it was Behar who couldn’t wrap her mind around how calendars worked as she speculated that there was something nefarious behind the Army’s birthday parade in Washington, D.C.: BEHAR: Tanks will be rolling through the nation's capital along with 7,000 marching soldiers to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. There will also be No Kings demonstrations around the country to protest Trump, and it happens to be his 79th birthday! What a coincidence!   Joy Behar finds it suspicious that Trump shares a birthday with the U.S. Army: "Tanks will be rolling through the nation's capital along with7,000 marching soldiers to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States Army...and it happens to be his 79th birthday, what a… pic.twitter.com/bd9qEDj0T9 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 13, 2025   ‘Starving Kids’: ABC News Accuses Trump of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ By mid July, The View cast was in full blown hysterics over Trump’s presidency. They lashed out at the “bastards” in the administration and accused Trump of taking pleasure in the "cruelty" of cutting funds to “starving children.” Without evidence, the co-hosts of the ABC News program claimed Trump had committed “crimes against humanity” which they put on the same level as just being “mean”: GOLDBERG: Now, you should ask yourself why? Was cruelty the point? Was Elon just trying to, you know, skinny up the government or were they just being bastards? BEHAR: They’re just being mean. They’re mean. (...) HOSTIN: It feels criminal. This feels criminal. It’s like a crime against humanity. GOLDBERG: It’s criminal. It’s mean. The View Downplays Somali Welfare Fraud as Just 'Smoke and Mirrors’ Claiming something false was fact is one thing, but claiming something that’s a proven fact in a court of law was false is another. That was the case in early December when they downplayed the massive Somali welfare fraud scheme to be something invented by Trump. While leading into the discussion during their Hot Topics segment, Goldberg suggested that the case was all “smoke and mirror” and Behar said it was just a distraction: GOLDBERG: Will trying to demonize immigrants till work for him or his base? Are they more concerned about other issues, right now? Is this going to continue? Or is this smoke and mirrors? JOY BEHAR: It seems like every time his numbers drop or he perceives his popularity is dropping no matter how much tush kissing the cabinet does on him – it's really disgusting to watch them kiss his butt, but anyway – every time that happens, he pulls out a race card. Last time it was the Haitians who were eating the pets. And now it's the Somalis in Minnesota…   Downplaying the massive Somali welfare scheme in Minnesota, The View claims it's all "smoke and mirrors" and Trump's way of "trying to demonize immigrants." Behar also claims Biden's loss of the Somali vote over Gaza was actually Trump's lost voters; the real reason he's angry. pic.twitter.com/LL9vgTRyV5 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 3, 2025   Joy Behar Claims Trump Is Threatening to Kill the Families of GOP Lawmakers One of the more insane accusations to be flew out by Behar occurred back in February, when she asserted that Congressional Republicans were going along with Trump’s agenda because the President of the United States threatened to have their families killed: NAVARRO: But you know why was Mitch McConnell able to do it now? Because now he has no fear of retribution from Donald Trump. BEHAR: Yeah, that's right. NAVARRO: Whereas, everybody else is terrified of him and toeing the line. BEHAR: Somebody said they were afraid for their lives and also the lives of their children and their wives. It's not just not being re-elected. It's physical threats that go on.     The View-Anon: 'Mob Boss' Trump 'Never Intends to Leave' White House One of the points of their conspiracy theories was to scare the bejeezus out of their viewers with predictions of nightmarish futures. According to Hostin in October, Trump was building a ballroom because he planned on never leaving the White House: HOSTIN: He is extorting and looting the federal government, at is – in my view, and he's extorting and looting the federal government at he’s already extorting and looting. (...) How about the fact that our tax dollars now, if he gets this $230 million, is going to be used to renovate a White House which he never intends to leave!  So, that’s what this is. This is about a mob boss extorting the government for his own personal, I guess, you know, gratitude and enrichment. And we are basically as taxpayers providing Trump and his family a lifestyle that he otherwise couldn't afford. ABC News Claims Trump Axing DoE to ‘Create’ a ‘Permanent Underclass’ In another instance of The View trying to paint a picture of America’s future of ashes, Hostin declared that the only reason Trump wanted to do away with the Department of Education was to make the populace easier to subjugate and make into cheap labor: 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.     If this was the journalist standard of ABC News, it’s not really a news outlet but a propaganda outfit.