By Nicholas Fondacaro
Copyright newsbusters
ABC’s The View
September 17, 2025
11:07:43 a.m. Eastern
JOY BEHAR: You know. I’m sorry, I feel as though–
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Take a breath. Take a deep breath. Take a breath, Joy, take a breath and tell us.
BEHAR: I feel like we’re trapped in a bad movie, like you’ve got these incompetent people running the government and we’re like a bunch of sitting ducks. You’ve got the puppy killer. You’ve got the signal cake guy, what’s his name, Hegseth.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Noem.
BEHAR: You’ve got the brain worm. You’ve got – I mean, there’s no end to the incompetency that we are experiencing as Americans! So, I can almost not even talk about individual situations like this, because the overall picture and the elephant in the room is that we’re screwed!
SARA HAINES: Well, Alyssa —
GOLDBERG: No, we’re not screwed because –
BEHAR: I know you say that every day but I feel like we are.
GOLDBERG: I say it every day, and yet we are still standing.
BEHAR: Just barely.
GOLDBERG: Yeah, but we’re up. We’ve been – Listen, lots of us have be down. We know where down is. It takes a lot to ruin a country. It takes a lot to ruin a country. Because people wake up and they start to go, ‘You know what? I don’t like what I’m seeing.’
BEHAR: Well Whoopi, it’s only since January!
GOLDBERG: Yes.
BEHAR: I mean he’s got another three years to go.
GOLDBERG: Well, I don’t know what we’ve got, except that I’m pretty sure that the people are taking care of the business at hand for them. If they’re in need of something, they’re going to neighbors. If they want books or they want information, they don’t have to go to the library, they can go to next-door neighbors and get the information.
People are making changes and adapting in a situation that is meant for us to give up. It’s meant — it’s put out there. It is put out there; they are doing things to grind us down. And I see people bending but I don’t see anybody breaking. I don’t see people breaking and that is what gives me the strength to keep standing, because, you know, they come for us all the time. But we’re standing and we’re still here and God bless the Constitution. She’s holding. I don’t know for how long.
HOSTIN: I don’t know for how long.
GOLDBERG: But she has not broken yet.
HAINES: Yes.
GOLDBERG: So that’s why — that’s why I remain – Because if I make a decision that says this is not handleable, what’s the alternative?
HAINES: What’s the alternative?
GOLDBERG: What is the alternative?