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On Monday’s episode of “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin stirred up controversy by asserting that earthquakes and the impending eclipse are both a result of the planet’s changing climate, which prompted her fellow co-hosts to correct her.
The exchange began when Alyssa Farrah Griffin mentioned a fact about former President Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course.
“With the earthquake on Friday and the eclipse today, people are having all sorts of conspiracies about the end of the world, and then I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster in New Jersey. Fun fact. So it originated with Trump,” she said.
This exchange followed:
HOSTIN: I know, right? I have to say, one of our wonderful makeup artists…when the earthquake was happening, she put her coat on and she was, like, Jesus is coming. I’m out. I’m leaving. We got a solar eclipse. We’ve got an earthquake. She ran down the hallway.
GRIFFIN: The Rapture is here!
HOSTIN: The Rapture is here. Also, I learned that the cica-ah-das are coming.
GOLDBERG: Cicadas.
HOSTIN: For the first time in a hundred years.
GOLDBERG: No, no, no, no. There’s two different kinds coming. There’s two different kinds of cicadas coming.
BEHAR: The good cicadas and the bad cicadas.
HOSTIN: This is for the first time in many, many years.
GOLDBERG: No, every 17 years this happens.
HOSTIN: That’s not what I read, but maybe, you know, maybe you know better.
GOLDBERG: But, either way —
HOSTIN: All those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.
BEHAR: Earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground.
GOLDBERG: The eclipse, and they’ve known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually can say when these things are going to happen. So all these folks who are saying, you know, it’s a sign from God — God doesn’t give you warning. Ok? You think he gave people at the Tower of Babble a warning? “Oh, I’m about to jack y’all up?” No. God does stuff and then you figure, oh.
WATCH:
Is Sunny Hostin the dumbest person on television?
Even Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are calling this claim nonsense! pic.twitter.com/i4RQbTt47t
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) April 8, 2024
In February, the co-hosts clashed mightily on-air over a discussion about whether America is an inherently racist country.
Hostin, who is black, went back and forth with former Trump administration official Griffin, who is of Arab descent, over the question after the former claimed that a “significant portion” of the country demonstrates racist tendencies, Fox News reported.
The co-hosts of the show discussed GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s recent appearance on Charlamagne Tha God’s “The Breakfast Club” program. During her interview, Haley asserted that division in the country began during the Obama administration and expressed her belief that America is not a racist nation, although she acknowledged the existence of racism within the United States.
Farah Griffin expressed her belief that the vast majority of Americans are not racist but acknowledged the presence of racism within the United States.
“Well, we don’t know that,” co-host Joy Behar disagreed, while Hostin argued that FBI Director Christopher Wray has claimed that white supremacy was “the biggest threat to our country today.”
“That still doesn’t mean that’s the vast majority of people. I just don’t believe in my day-to-day life that the people you’re encountering harbor racist viewpoints,” Farah Griffin continued.
Hostin then claimed, “If you looked like me, you would believe differently.”
Griffin posed the question to her co-hosts, inquiring whether they believed that the majority of Americans were racist. She then added, “Help me understand.”
“I think that there is a significant portion that are racist and you can’t dismiss my lived experience,” Hostin responded, as the audience applauded.
Griffin quickly said, “I never would.”
