‘The View’ Hosts Explain Tariffs To Audience, Get It Wrong: ‘Now He’s Going To Tax Our Tequila!’

The hosts of ABC News’ “The View” attempted to explain President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs — or the threat of tariffs — during Monday’s broadcast, and aside from a brief moment of lucidity from Alyssa Farah Griffin, got everything wrong.

Griffin opened the discussion by noting that Trump’s threats had already succeeded in bringing Mexico and Canada to the negotiating table — and that both had pledged to aid in his efforts to control the flow of illegal immigrants and lethal drugs across the border and into the United States.

She then pivoted to warn that she believed Trump might be moving toward a more isolationist policy, which she claimed could lead to American allies siding with China instead.

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Ana Navarro freaks out over the price of her tequila and avocados going up because of the tariffs:
"As if deporting good, hardworking immigrants wasn't enough…Now he's going to tax our tequila and avocados?!" pic.twitter.com/1mMv3yMz1H

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 3, 2025

Cohost Ana Navarro weighed in then, claiming that the Trump administration was “bullying” immigrants by arresting and deporting violent criminals and complaining about the impact reciprocal tariffs from Mexico might have on the price of imports like avocados and tequila.

“I look at this thing in Mexico and I’m like, okay, as if deporting good, hardworking immigrants wasn’t enough. As if emboldening the racial profiling and bigotry against Latinos wasn’t enough. As if revoking temporary protective status for half a million Venezuelans wasn’t enough. As if bullying Panama wasn’t enough. Now he’s going to tax our tequila and avocados?!”

Cohost Sara Haines complained about the price of eggs, which skyrocketed due to an outbreak of bird flu before Trump even took office, and suggested that this was somehow tied to Trump’s tariff threats.

“Why aren’t the price of eggs getting better? This was the other part he promised which was tariffs,” she said, suggesting that the people making less than $50,000 who voted for him ” in spades” were getting what they voted for, and it was going to hurt them the most.

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Whoopi now things she's an expert on U.S.-international trade and export quality control. She claims America's exports are crap: "There's a reason people don't really take a lot of our things that we export because the quality of what we put out has not always been the best." pic.twitter.com/ANWAha7v7n

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 3, 2025

Whoopi Goldberg rounded out the discussion by claiming that Americans imported more than they exported because American products were subpar rather than because American labor laws have often made products too expensive to compete.

“There’s a reason people don’t really take a lot of our things that we export because the quality of what we put out has not always been the best,” she said.