Trump Hit by Harsh Takedown on “The View,” Igniting White House Fury

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A new Gallup poll finds that President Trump’s approval has dropped to 37 percent. But the White House has figured out how to get those numbers back up: By picking a huge fight with “The View.” This week, Joy Behar unleashed a striking takedown of Trump, mocking him mercilessly for being jealous of Barack Obama. This enraged the White House, which responded with name calling—and a veiled threat. Which got us thinking: Doesn’t the logic of the situation dictate that Trump’s authoritarian threats will of necessity escalate? We talked about all this with Salon’s Amanda Marcotte, a skilled decoder of MAGA’s cultural hatreds. We discuss why Behar’s broadside was so perfectly aimed at Trump’s soft underbelly, why Trump’s only way forward may be more arrests, and how this whole saga shows that Trump thought the culture was moving his way—but it’s not, driving him into a fury. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:32.5	A new Gallup poll finds that President Trump's approval rating has dropped to 37%. But guess what?
0:34.3	The White House has figured out just how to get those numbers back up,
0:37.9	by picking a huge fight with The View.
0:41.2	This week, Joy Behar unleashed a striking takedown of Trump on the air,
0:45.9	mocking him mercilessly for being jealous of Barack Obama.
0:49.6	This enraged the White House, which responded with a bunch of name-calling,
0:53.6	but also with a veiled
0:54.7	threat. This comes as Trump's threats are escalating on many other fronts as well.
1:00.5	We think the logic of this is worrisome. At some point, won't Trump and the White House
1:05.3	have to escalate? What happens then? The outright jailing of Democrats and TV critics?
1:13.5	Salon's Amanda Marcotte is one of the best out there at decoding MAGA's various cultural hatreds, so we're talking to her about all this
1:18.5	today. Good to have you on, as always, Amanda. Thanks for having me. So let's start with what Joy
1:24.8	Behar said on The View. This comes as Trump has been inventing fake reasons for threatening prosecution of Barack Obama and so forth.
1:32.5	Listen to what Behar said about that.
1:34.8	So the thing about him is that he's so jealous of Obama.
1:38.1	Because Obama is everything that he is not.
1:40.7	Yeah.
1:41.0	Trim.
1:42.2	Yeah.
1:44.6	Smart. Handsome. Yeah. Smart.
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