There’s seemingly nothing that President Trump could do that would get the approval of the eternal haters on ABC’s The View, even when it was the exact same thing their side of the political isle was trying to do. During their Tuesday show, the liberal ladies were up in arms and raging at Trump for wanting to lower the cost of prescription drugs in America, and were not dissuaded even after learning that progressives on the left wanted to enact the same plan.
“So yesterday you-know-who [Trump] issued an executive order aimed at lowering drug costs. We don't know which drugs but lowering costs!” moderator Whoopi Goldberg shouted while making faces and waving her arms around.
She and co-host Joy Behar’s brains couldn’t comprehend Trump’s comments about how America got stuck paying higher drug costs to make up for the money lost to the lower prices in other countries:
GOLDBERG: And he blamed foreign countries for extorting drug companies by negotiating lower prices that stick the U.S. with the bill.
JOY BEHAR: Huh?
GOLDBERG: None of that made any sense.
Goldberg went on to shout about how “it doesn't make any sense” that Trump would want to lower drug costs without saying specifically which drugs and without first revamping the entire insurance system:
Well, again, he didn't specify which drugs he's going to target or which insurance programs would be impacted because you see, if you're going to lower the price of the drugs, you got to first fix the broken insurance company because they're -- it doesn't make any sense!
It’s weird that Goldberg would want to overhaul the entire insurance system since her beloved Obamacare was still in effect.
Behar chimed in again to argued that Trump couldn’t take on lowering drug costs without first tackling campaign finance reform: “Also I would think you also have to take money out of politics too because a lot of these guys in Congress don't they take money from pharmaceutical -- the lobbyists.”
The panel’s purported conservative, Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that Trump’s policy was called the “most-favored-nation pricing model” and that it was something that he tried to get enacted during his first term.
Goldberg’s mind melted when Farah Griffin noted that his plan was exactly what far-left lawmakers like Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) were advocating for (Click “expand”):
FARAH GRIFFIN: Now, he's had some interesting support from this. Ro Khanna a member of the Progressive Caucus and Bernie Sanders have a bill that basically does this. The main part of it -- the main critique of it is it could help research and development, America's the hub of medical research and development.
GOLDBERG: Well, we were until he got in and cut all of this out!
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFIN: And another thing is he is saying there’s going to be be enforcement action if they don't lower drug prices. Which, that to me is price controls and veers into some socialism I’m not comfortable with.
GOLDBERG: Here's the problem ---
[Crosstalk]
When we talked about this, we've talked about lowering drug costs, we say people pay more tax in different countries, you know, because it helps them with their costs. Now, when we suggested that, they said, ‘oh, this is socialism.’ It's not socialism! It's best for the country if everyone can afford their healthcare!
Of course, Goldberg resorted to arguing that Democratic President Obama and Biden had better ways of trying to lower prices. “And Biden seemed to find a way to work towards it and the same with Barack Obama. He found a way!” she declared.
After a cacophonous 15 seconds of all five co-host speaking at the exact same time, Goldberg huffed that Trump should be doing what he already was doing: “Well, everybody has concepts. But I need him to go to the insurance people and say, ‘stop gouging the people.’ How about that?”
Trump could announce that he was negotiating with God to get every American into Heaven and they still wouldn’t be happy.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
May 13, 2025
11:15:00 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: So yesterday you-know-who issued an executive order -
[Laughter ]
-aimed at lowering drug costs. We don't know which drugs but lowering costs! And he blamed foreign countries for extorting drug companies by negotiating lower prices that stick the U.S. with the bill.
JOY BEHAR: Huh?
GOLDBERG: None of that made any sense. But here's who he said inspired him to take action.
[Cuts to video]
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: A friend of mine who’s a businessman, very, very, very top guy, most of you would have heard of him, highly neritic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight and he takes the fat -- the fat shot drug. And he called me up [transition] ‘I'm in London and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take.’ I said, ‘it's not working.’ [Laughter] He said, he said, ‘I just paid $88 and in New York I pay $1,300. What the hell is going on?’
[Cuts back to live]
GOLDBERG: Well, again, he didn't specify which drugs he's going to target or which insurance programs would be impacted because you see, if you're going to lower the price of the drugs, you got to first fix the broken insurance company because they're -- it doesn't make any sense!
[Applause]
BEHAR: Also I would think you also have to take money out of politics too because a lot of these guys in Congress don't they take money from pharmaceutical -- the lobbyists.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
SARA HAINES: There are lobbyists in other countries too.
BEHAR: You know, the guy has 153 rooms in the White House. He can't have one mirror to look into? He's always criticizing this one’s not a 10. This one’s a six. This one’s fat. He said the friend is highly neritic. Hello, look in the mirror!
[Laughter]
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: What he's proposing here is implementing the most-favored-nation pricing model. He tried to do it in the first term. And the best layperson way I can explain this when you go to the grocery store and they’re like, ’we'll match the lowest price somewhere else.’
SUNNY HOSTIN: Right.
FARAH GRIFFIN: He's basically matching lower drug costs in other nations.
Now, he's had some interesting support from this. Ro Khanna a member of the Progressive Caucus and Bernie Sanders have a bill that basically does this. The main part of it -- the main critique of it is it could help research and development, America's the hub of medical research and development.
GOLDBERG: Well, we were until he got in and cut all of this out!
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFIN: And another thing is he is saying there’s going to be be enforcement action if they don't lower drug prices. Which, that to me is price controls and veers into some socialism I’m not comfortable with.
GOLDBERG: Here's the problem ---
[Crosstalk]
When we talked about this, we've talked about lowering drug costs, we say people pay more tax in different countries, you know, because it helps them with their costs. Now, when we suggested that, they said, ‘oh, this is socialism.’ It's not socialism! It's best for the country if everyone can afford their healthcare!
[Applause]
HAINES: When he blamed that other countries are negotiating better, one of the problems is in a lot of other countries there's a central negotiator, which would be the government. And so, if our government was the central negotiator for this and came up with some price controls, the problem is, every healthcare plan is on their own. So, you have all of these different people trying to do it.
GOLDBERG: And Biden seemed to find a way to work towards it and the same with Barack Obama. He found a way!
[Crosstalk for several seconds with all five co-hosts speaking at the same time]
GOLDBERG: Well, everybody has concepts. But I need him to go to the insurance people and say, ‘stop gouging the people.’ How about that?
[Crosstalk for several seconds]
GOLDBERG: And not by just -- what? Is there big wheels keep on turning? Is that what?
BEHAR: Got to go.
GOLDBERG: Want me to go to commercial?
BEHAR: Gotta go. Gotta go. Gotta go.
[Laughter]
GOLDBERG: We'll be right back.
