Joy Behar Claims No President Before Trump Trashed Predecessors

Joy Behar claimed on Thursday that President Donald Trump was the first sitting president in her lifetime to publicly trash his predecessor.

The regular cohost, apparently forgetting the eight years former President Barack Obama spent blaming former President George W. Bush for pretty much everything, made the comments on Thursday’s broadcast of the ABC News midday talk show “The View.”

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Joy Behar ridiculously claims that no president before Trump had ever said anything bad about a predecessor before:
"I never remember in my lifetime a sitting president trashing a previous president. I've never heard that before." pic.twitter.com/KDzHOdj4JB

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Behar began by complaining that people within the Trump administration were publicly highlighting former President Joe Biden’s failures — as they implemented policy changes to turn things around — and argued that because Biden was no longer in office, they should get over it and stop talking about him.

“They also have a tendency to place the blame on the Biden administration. It’s like, move on, that ship has sailed,” she demanded. “I never remember in my lifetime a sitting president trashing a previous president. I’ve never heard that before. You never heard — you know — Ronald Reagan didn’t do it, their Saint Ronald.”

“But it’s the common enemy, it’s what drives their base together,” Sara Haines interjected, apparently suggesting that Republicans were only bonded together by their hatred for the Biden administration.

Behar — and Haines — appear to have forgotten much of what transpired between 2009 and 2016, when Obama repeatedly blamed his predecessor for his own economic woes.

“We inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression, a banking system on the verge of meltdown. We had lost 4 million jobs by the time I was sworn in and would then lose another 4 million in a few months right after I was sworn in before our economic policies had a chance to take root,” he complained.

He also claimed it was Bush’s fault that “the efforts to apply pressure on Iran were in tatters” — a problem he purported to solve by giving billions of dollars in cash to the world’s leading sponsor of global terrorism and allowing them to edge closer and closer to developing their own nuclear weapons.

President Joe Biden, in turn, spent a fair amount of time between 2021 and 2024 blaming Trump for inflation and for the unemployment rate that was largely driven by COVID-era shutdowns implemented at the state and local levels.