Girl Math: Sunny Hostin Lies About the Cost of BLM Damage and Eggs

Ever since abandoning the use of formal “legal notes” last year, The View’s lies have been getting more brazen and more outlandish. Take co-host Sunny Hostin, for example. On Thursday’s episode, she ran up a mighty exorbitant tab with multiple falsehoods when it came to the cost of her beloved Black Lives Matter “uprisings” and the price for eggs.

According to Hostin’s revisionist history, not much was damaged by the BLM riots of 2020. “So, I just want to make that part clear. They were very limited destruction of property and violence during… the Black Lives Matter uprisings,” she scolded critics.

In reality, the damage the riots inflicted was extensive. As Axios reported at the time, the damages cost between $1-2 billion and were the “most expensive in insurance history.” They noted the cost eclipsed the previous record holder, 1992’s Rodney King riots in L.A.

In terms of the ultimate cost, 19 people died during the riots. Many were killed by the rioters or while trying to allegedly commit other crimes.

Hostin’s girl math also led her to outlandishly assert that the cost for a dozen eggs was “$10.”

“It doesn’t cost 99 cents to make lunch. It costs like $10 to buy eggs,” she shouted in response to a soundbite of Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary saying young adults needed to bring their lunch to work to save money, instead of always eating out.

According to a recent USDA report, the average price of eggs in America was $2.21 per dozen. Additionally, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis noted the cost of eggs over the last 46 years topped out at $6.23 per dozen in early 2025 and had dropped off sharply since.

The View had something of a BOGO sale on lying about costs this week.

Hostin and co-host Joy Behar decried TrumpRX and tried to scare people away from getting low-cost prescriptions via the program.

Behar made it seem as though the program was selling Trump-branded knock-off drugs and suggested they were going to kill everyone: “And I like Mark Cuban. I’ve always liked him, but this is a mistake, and once Trump puts his name on prescriptions, we’re all going to die!”

Hostin would later back up Behar’s smear that the drugs were unsafe, asserting, “There could be shortcuts involved.” “Anything he touches is tainted! I don’t trust it!” she shouted.

Of course, they provided no evidence to support their claims. TrumpRX is a marketplace, and the drugs were from their approved manufacturers.

The View is an ABC News program, by the way.

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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.