The ladies of ABC's The View spent their Monday segment openly fantasizing about a 23-year-old football player getting injured on the field because he committed the unforgivable sin of saying nice things about Donald Trump. New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart praised President Trump at a recent event, calling it "an honor" and "a privilege" — and the tolerant left responded by suggesting he get extra hits.
Because nothing says "we're the good guys" like hoping a young man gets his bones rearranged over a political opinion.
Co-host Joy Behar — who has never thrown a spiral or taken a blindside hit in her life — called Dart's support for the president "the definition of stupidity and racist." Let that sink in. A kid says he admires the sitting president and that makes him stupid and racist. Behar then escalated to what can only be described as a threat dressed up as a joke: "Maybe he needs a little extra padding." Hilarious. A woman on a Disney-owned network suggesting a professional athlete needs extra padding because of who he voted for. Peak comedy.
Sara Haines helpfully pointed out that Dart is "the quarterback, which is a central player," apparently noting that quarterbacks are especially vulnerable to being hit. Thanks for the tactical breakdown, Sara. Sunny Hostin — fresh off calling for an "Andor-style rebellion" against the Trump administration just days earlier — piled on with her own veiled threat: "You sure do need your offensive line to protect you." The implication wasn't subtle. Maybe his teammates, many of whom are Black, should let him get clobbered.
And there it is. As NewsBusters associate editor Nicholas Fondacaro reported, the hosts leaned heavily on the racial composition of NFL rosters to make their point. They cited that 55-60% of NFL players are Black and roughly 75% of the Giants roster is Black or nonwhite — as if a player's political views should determine whether his teammates protect him from a 280-pound defensive end.
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, playing her usual role as the "reasonable" one, said it was Dart's "right to learn about consequences." Consequences. For expressing a political opinion in America. The same Whoopi Goldberg who has spent decades lecturing everyone about free speech and artistic expression now thinks a kid deserves physical "consequences" for supporting a president that half the country voted for.
Let's be clear about what happened on May 26, 2026, on ABC's airwaves. Five women on a nationally televised talk show suggested that a professional athlete should be physically harmed — or at minimum left unprotected — because he likes the president. This aired at 11:16 a.m. Eastern on a network owned by Disney. The same Disney that markets itself to families and children.
These are the same people who spent four years telling us that words are violence. That mean tweets are dangerous. That rhetoric has consequences. But openly musing about a young quarterback getting his clock cleaned because he wore the wrong political jersey? That's just daytime television banter.
Alyssa Farah Griffin, supposedly the show's "conservative" voice, didn't exactly ride to the rescue either. The whole panel treated the segment like a comedy bit — as if wishing physical harm on a kid for his politics is just good fun.
Here's the thing they'll never understand. Jaxson Dart didn't say anything hateful. He didn't attack anyone. He said it was an honor to meet President Trump. That's it. And for that, five women on national television implied he deserved to get hurt.
We keep hearing that Trump supporters are the violent ones. We keep hearing about "dangerous rhetoric" from the right. Meanwhile, The View is running segments about how a football player should lose the protection of his offensive line because of his vote. They don't want unity. They don't want tolerance. They want compliance. And if you don't comply, they want you broken.