"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin confessed that she didn't actually believe that President Donald Trump's pitch for ethnically cleansing Gaza was real when it was first reported.
On Wednesday's panel, Griffin said that she was making dinner when her husband came in and asked her about the report. She told him he needed to be better about fact-checking such things, only to then find out it was true.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Trump told the media that he wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza and begin the forced relocation of Palestinians to Egypt or Jordan. Then, he proposed turning Gaza into the "French Riviera of the Middle East."
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"I said, hon, you're reading fake news. Sure enough! It was real!" she said.
She also pointed out that it doesn't represent "America First" or "Ending endless wars," both Trump's campaign promises in 2024.
"He was the anti-George Bush, the anti-we're going to be in the Middle East indefinitely," Griffin continued. "It's a horrible idea, and I agree with everyone we played. But I kind of look at Trump bluster from three lenses: is he just saying it to distract from other things so we all go crazy, very possible. Is he just always a real estate developer who sees things as dollar signs? And third—"
"He's too old for this job," said Whoopi Goldberg, cutting in.
"Third," Griffin continued, "which could be all of the above, is he simply starting with the most extreme version of the deal so that what he ultimately does this Gaza seems less crazy than the U.S. taking it over? I don't know which one it is, but it's a terrible idea."
