During Tuesday’s edition of The View, moderator Whoopi Goldberg cracked open her woke word dictionary to let viewers know that “the personhunt was on” for the thieves who pilfered Napoleon’s crown jewels from the Louvre (or as she pronounced it the “Louv-er”). Despite it just being a figure of speech, she argued that we should use gender neutral language because we didn’t know the gender of the thieves. And there were other bonkers comments made by the rest of the cast.
“Welcome back. The personhunt is on for the thieves – because we don't know if a woman did it, we don't know if a man did it,” she proclaimed. “So, I don't want to say the manhunt, but the personhunt is on for the thieves who stole priceless royal jewelry from the Louv-er [sic] museum in Paris. In a daring daylight heist that sounds right out of a movie!”
Seeing as they just got done ripping the new White House Ballroom earlier in the show as “tacky,” co-host Joy Behar followed up on images of the Louvre (one of the most popular museums in the world) by calling the place “tacky.”
“Hey, Trump would love that place! It's so tacky!” she declared, getting approval from Goldberg: “Well, he is the Marie Antoinette, ain’t he?”
A disturbing and morbid analogy, seeing as Antoinette was executed by guillotine during the French revolution.
Proving once again that The View was the home of misinformation, Behar claimed the thieves left a snarky note, only to admit it was from a different heist:
BEHAR: The thieves left a note that said, “A thousand thanks for your poor security.”
[Crosstalk]
HAINES: Wait. That was -- that's true? They left a note?
BEHAR: They left a note.
HAINES: That's the biggest middle finger ever.
BEHAR: [Checks note card] No, that was at a different – That was a different heist. Sorry.
The heist she was referencing wasn’t even in France, let alone at the Louvre, and let alone this century. It was the heist of The Scream painting from the National Museum in Oslo, Norway in 1992.
Co-host Sunny Hostin, who used to be a federal prosecutor, actually argued that it’s better for someone to be wearing the stolen jewels than them stuck in a box:
HOSTIN: Now, let me preface this by saying theft is wrong. Is a crime.
BEHAR: Uh-oh.
GOLDBERG: Careful.
HOSTIN: But those pretty jewels should not be just in boxes and nobody wearing them! Okay?
“So I mean, I think in every heist movie you kind of -- like Lupin or one of those, Thomas Crown Affair, you kind of root for the thieves,” she added.
“What type of prosecutor are you, though?” Behar pressed. Co-host Sara Haines jumped in to quip that, “Sunny is just against sex crimes, not jewels.”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
October 21, 2025
11:36:24 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: Welcome back. The personhunt is on for the thieves – because we don't know if a woman did it, we don't know if a man did it. So, I don't want to say the manhunt, but the personhunt is on for the thieves who stole priceless royal jewelry from the Louv-er [sic] museum in Paris. In a daring daylight heist that sounds right out of a movie!
And here's how ABC News reporter James Longman said it went down. Take a look.
[Cuts to video]
JAMES LONGMAN: Police say the masked robbers drove up to the side of the museum in a truck mounted with a ladder described as a mobile freight elevator. Police say the lift was extended up to a second floor window which thieves broke open using an angle grinder. From there, they've alleged to have threatened security guards before ransacking the Apollo Gallery. Where Napoleon III's crown jewels were on display. The suspects making off with eight items before escaping on scooters.
[Cuts back to live]
JOY BEHAR: Talk about – Hey, Trump would love that place! It's so tacky!
GOLDBERG: Well, he is the Marie Antoinette, ain’t he?
BEHAR: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Anyhoo, were you surprised that they were able to pull this off in broad daylight? At the most popular museum in the world.
SARA HAINES: That is crazy.
HOSTIN: Yes.
BEHAR: The thieves left a note that said, “A thousand thanks for your poor security.”
[Crosstalk]
HAINES: Wait. That was -- that's true? They left a note?
BEHAR: They left a note.
HAINES: That's the biggest middle finger ever.
BEHAR: [Checks note card] No, that was at a different – That was a different heist. Sorry.
[Laughter]
HOSTIN: What's very interesting about the security plan at that museum is that it's people first. And so it's guard the people, make sure the people are okay as opposed to the jewels.
Now, let me preface this by saying theft is wrong. Is a crime.
BEHAR: Uh-oh.
GOLDBERG: Careful.
HOSTIN: But those pretty jewels should not be just in boxes and nobody wearing them! Okay? So I mean, I think in every heist movie you kind of -- like Lupin or one of those, Thomas Crown Affair, you kind of root for the thieves.
(…)
