Staunchly racist co-host of ABC’s The View, Sunny Hostin was at it again on Wednesday and Thursday as she was doing her part to compound the controversy surrounding a Signal group chat utilized by members of President Trump’s cabinet. On back-to-back days, she made racially tinged attacks on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth while simultaneously praising former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and boasting about his race. She would eventually suggest Hegseth was the mediocre DEI hire. Let’s quickly put things into context. A month ago, while complaining about being called out as a “race baiter,” Hostin lashed out at white people for supposedly having easy lives: “It's been about white mediocre men that are given opportunities…You have to be average if you're white; if you are black, you must – your average must be excellent in order to compete.” Fast forward to Wednesday of this week, and Hostin was again up in arms over Hegseth replacing Austin. Of course, she made it about race: [T]he other thing that I would note is that Pete Hegseth. What sort of example is he leading as the secretary of defense? Is he leading for -- no example. And who did he replace? He replaced a four-star general from the United States Army, Lloyd Austin, an African American who was relieved of his duties. Now, Pete Hegseth was a Fox News host but he was also a former captain in the Army National Guard. He served in the military, but he lacks senior military experience or any national security experience. “So, when you replace excellence by mediocrity, that is what you get,” she proclaimed, echoing her racist rhetoric about white people being “mediocre.” Hostin then equated Hegseth’s hiring in terms of DEI, arguing that Austin’s was better: So, when they want to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, giving people advantages that don't deserve advantages, what we really need to do is reframe that. It's giving people advantages because of their excellence when they haven't had the opportunities before.     Her whining seemed to betray her ignorance to the fact that defense secretaries often don’t stick around with new presidents. Former President Biden didn’t keep President Trump’s Mark Esper around. Or perhaps she was just trying to gaslight the viewers into thinking Trump’s hiring of a new secretary was racially motivated. “You know, the thing is we all knew that Hegseth was unqualified for this job and he replaced a four-star general with over 40 years of experience, Lloyd Austin,” Hostin continued to rant on Thursday. “And this would not have happened and did not happen on Lloyd Austin's watch.” This was misinformation from Hostin to obfuscate the communication scandal involving Austin. In 2023, Austin disappeared for several days and no one knew his whereabouts, not even Biden. It turned out that Austin had been hospitalized as he underwent a medical procedure to fight a cancer, which also was not disclosed to the proper figures. Austin was also in charge of the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. No one was fired or forced to resign despite the fact that 13 service members were killed in a suicide attack at Abbey Gate. But the hypocrisy of her own arguments wasn’t enough to dissuade Hostin from calling for Trump’s Cabinet members to be fired; it seemed to be the point as she laughably boasted about disgraced former Secret Service boss Kimberly Cheatle resigning after the first assassination attempt on Trump: But what I will say is to your question initially, Whoopi, these people need to be fired. They need to be held accountable. I remember when following the July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when there was an assassination attempt on the President's life, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said ‘the buck stops with me’ and she resigned. She resigned. She didn't put it on anyone else. The comparison was ridiculous because Cheatle didn’t resign out of some sense of honor and responsibility. She was forced to resign because politicians on both sides of the isle were calling for it amid her terrible excuses (like blaming the slope of a roof) and combative/unsatisfactory answers in a hearing. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View March 26, 2025 11:07:20 a.m. Eastern (…) SUNNY HOSTIN: [T]he other thing that I would note is that Pete Hegseth. What sort of example is he leading as the secretary of defense? Is he leading for -- no example. And who did he replace? He replaced a four-star general from the United States Army, Lloyd Austin. [Applause] An African American, who was relieved of his duties. Now, Pete Hegseth was a Fox News host but he was also a former captain in the Army National Guard. He served in the military, but he lacks senior military experience or any national security experience. JOY BEHAR: What about his time on Fox News, though? You’re forgetting he was a Fox News anchor. HOSTIN: Fox News host! So, my point is Lloyd Austin served in the military for 41 years. We're talking about command at the corps, division, battalion, brigade levels, according to the Defense Department. So, when you replace excellence by mediocrity, that is what you get. [Applause] So, when they want to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, giving people advantages that don't deserve advantages, what we really need to do is reframe that. It's giving people advantages because of their excellence when they haven't had the opportunities before. (…) March 27, 2025 11:05:53 a.m. Eastern HOSTIN: You know, the thing is we all knew that Hegseth was unqualified for this job and he replaced a four-star general with over 40 years of experience, Lloyd Austin. And this would not have happened and did not happen on Lloyd Austin's watch. But what I will say is to your question initially, Whoopi, these people need to be fired. They need to be held accountable. I remember when following the July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when there was an assassination attempt on the President's life, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said ‘the buck stops with me’ and she resigned. She resigned. She didn't put it on anyone else. Pete Hegseth is the person that is responsible. Yeah. He's the person -- secretary of defense, he is responsible for everything. It was his decision to use that group chat to type out this highly sensitive information. BEHAR: But how come Trump didn't know about this group chat? He’s the commander-in-chief. SARA HAINES: Do you really believe that he doesn't know? He also doesn't know he lost an election. BEHAR: Well, he says he didn’t know. That’s true [points to Haines]. [Laughter] HAINES: I don't know that I'm following that completely. (…)