Marjorie Taylor Greene’s sudden anti-Trump pivot has Joy Behar gushing but the rest of her The View co-hosts aren’t buying it
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest public shift away from Trump has Joy Behar practically gushing on The View, but the rest of the show’s co-hosts aren’t nearly as convinced. During the April 22 broadcast, Behar couldn’t resist giving Greene another glowing shoutout, this time while celebrating Virginia’s new redistricting map, which gives Democrats a clear advantage heading into the midterms.
According to Decider, Behar even jokingly called Greene “my best friend” while reading one of her statements, where Greene said, “A once red state is turning into one of the bluest states because people don’t want to support Republicans now.” Behar said, “It’s kind of heartwarming, isn’t it?”
A week ago, Behar’s co-hosts had called her out for being way too eager to embrace Greene after she started publicly criticizing Trump. Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and Whoopi Goldberg all pushed back hard, citing her controversial stances like still claiming the 2020 election was stolen, associating with far-right figures like Nick Fuentes, or appearing on Alex Jones’ podcast.
The other hosts said Greene’s pivot doesn’t erase her history of problematic takes
Haines put it bluntly: “Just because she agrees, ‘Oh, I don’t like Trump,’ I’m not like, ‘Ok, great, welcome aboard.’” Hostin took it even further, pressing Behar on why she was so quick to roll out the welcome mat. “Why are you so welcoming, Joy?” she asked. Behar’s response was simple: “I don’t hold grudges. If they want to come over to my side, I’m taking them.” That said, she did clarify that she’s “not going on vacation with her.”
Hostin wasn’t having it, though. She laid out the stakes clearly: “If you voted for Donald Trump three times, if you voted for him this last election when we told you what was going to happen… This country is on fire. People are being killed in the streets. People are unhoused. People can’t afford anything.”
This isn’t the first time Behar has been at odds with her co-hosts over Greene
Back in 2025, when Greene criticized Trump’s response to the murders of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, Behar was already skeptical of the sudden change of heart. Trump had claimed Reiner died “due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
Greene called the comments “classless” and “below the office of president of the United States,” adding that the “dam is breaking” for Republicans in the midterms. Sunny Hostin asked the panel if anyone could’ve predicted Greene would become the “canary in the coal mine” for the GOP’s struggles, and Whoopi Goldberg called it a “miracle.”
Behar responded, “You give her too much credit.” She called Greene an “ambitious” politician and suggested that her sudden shift had more to do with self-preservation than any real ideological change. “Let’s not forget, Santa is bringing the Epstein files this week and everybody’s weakened in the Republican Party right now,” Behar said.
“They’re not gonna win, she knows it. She wants to run for something else.” Even then, Behar admitted she was “happy to have her on our side now,” though Goldberg quickly corrected her: “I don’t know if she’s on our side.”
The tension goes back even further
During a surprise appearance on the show, Greene left Hostin genuinely stunned by how much her rhetoric had shifted. “I feel like I’m sitting next to a completely different Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Hostin told her. “Why the change? Why the evolution? You’ve gone so far right, you’re on the left now.”
Greene insisted she’s “not on the left,” framing herself as someone who’s just tired of the two-party system. “All of this two-party fighting, you guys are all victims of the political industrial complex… but it’s not gonna solve our problems in this country.”
So what’s really going on here? Is Greene’s pivot a genuine change of heart, or is it just political opportunism? Behar seems willing to take her at face value, but her co-hosts aren’t nearly as forgiving. Hostin’s point about Greene’s voting record is hard to ignore. Also, Greene’s history of embracing conspiracy theories, antisemitism, and far-right extremists doesn’t exactly scream “reformed moderate.”
That said, Behar’s approach isn’t entirely without merit. Politics is full of strange bedfellows, and if Greene is genuinely breaking ranks with Trump and the GOP, maybe that’s a win for the left, even if it’s an uneasy one. The problem is that Greene’s track record makes it hard to trust her motives. Is she really turning over a new leaf, or is she just positioning herself for a future run where she can distance herself from Trump’s baggage?
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