‘The View’ star Alyssa Farah Griffin snaps on Joy Behar in heated clash

Conservative commentator and former Donald Trump White House associate Alyssa Farah Griffin let loose on The View cohost Joy Behar, a staunch liberal, during a particularly heated Hot Topics exchange Friday morning.

The cohosts engaged in a lively debate about ongoing criticisms of 82-year-old Joe Biden’s fitness to hold office ahead of the 2024 presidential race against Donald Trump, which Biden bowed out of following immense pressure from Democrats to do so — including a public plea from Hollywood heavyweight George Clooney.

After The View played a clip of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) insisting that the party was “looking forward” instead of regurgitating talking points over concerns about Biden’s age, the panelists brought up a recent book that alleged Biden didn’t recognize Clooney at a 2024 campaign event. (Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Biden for comment.)

“Does that give you confidence in the middle of the night, if China is about to attack us, there’s a war breaking out in Iran, that he’s the sharpest person to handle that?” Griffin asked during the moment (watch in the video above).

Behar cut in to ask a question with a reference to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Signal scandal: “Wait a second, which administration texted war plans to their brother?”

Griffin replied with a question of her own: “The Trump [administration], but do we just keep lowering the bar because Trump is bad? Nothing else is bad because Trump is bad?”

Behar looked toward Griffin to note that “the ship has sailed” and is “out in the ocean somewhere with Biden.” She urged, “It’s over. Get over it,” before Griffin snapped.

“No, we have Trump because you guys screwed this up!” the 35-year-old said with her arms outstretched toward Behar, before adding, “With all due respect.”

The audience lightly gasped after Griffin’s outburst, to which Behar replied, “Alright, but does it help to just keep going over the same material about Biden over and over agin? I mean, really.”

Sunny Hostin then brought up other criticisms about Trump, and the conversation didn’t lessen in intensity until Behar finally threw the show to a commercial break with a joke comparing the panel to the cast of The Real Housewives franchise.

Ever since the November 2024 election, Griffin has frequently sparred with her cohosts over issues related to the momentous political event.

Griffin took particular issue with Hostin’s assertion that racism and misogyny played a significant factor in Vice President Kamala Harris losing the election to Trump.

On the Nov. 18 episode, Griffin told her colleague that she’s “missing it” entirely if she felt that a “vast majority in this country voted because of racism and misogyny,” with Hostin then citing that “the stats are the stats” when it comes to backing up her assessment.

“But, [the stat] doesn’t say, ‘I’m white, I voted for Donald Trump because of racism,'” Griffin replied after raising her hand to emphasize her words. “That’s not a fact. What fact are you talking about?”

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Biden also recently appeared on The View to address similar topics, and even revealed during his interview that he “wasn’t surprised” Harris lost the election.

“Not because I didn’t think the vice president was qualified to be president,” he clarified on the May 8 telecast. “She is, she’s qualified to be president of the United States of America. I was surprised because they went the sexist route, the whole route. ‘This is a woman,’ she’s this, she’s that, really, I’ve never seen as successful and consistent [of a] campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country — and a woman of mixed race.”

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC. Watch Griffin and Behar clash in the video at the top of this post.