‘The View’ Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

The hosts of ABC’s “The View” complained during Monday’s broadcast about former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and people who might bring politics into it — immediately after which they injected their own politics by trying to make it about President Donald Trump.

Whoopi Goldberg started the ball rolling, reacting on the show to the news that Biden — who had just appeared on the show a little over a week earlier — had been diagnosed with an advanced and “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.

Goldberg laughed off claims that there was any cover-up regarding Biden’s health or cognitive fitness, and then used a clip from his recent appearance — where former First Lady Jill Biden had been forced to step in and help him answer a question — as proof that he was fine.

She then complained that the new revelation regarding his cancer diagnosis would only “add fuel to the fire” for those who already believed that the Bidens had not been telling the truth about his condition. Her assessment was that it was time for everyone to simply “put politics aside.”

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Sunny Hostin makes Biden’s cancer diagnosis about Trump:
“I don’t think this is a time for politics. But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research…cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think… pic.twitter.com/EfcosBBvBN

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 19, 2025

Cohost Sunny Hostin started off in agreement with Goldberg, saying, “I don’t think this is a time for politics.”

She then immediately pivoted to make it political — and use it to attack President Donald Trump — adding, “But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research … cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think that’s so despicable and so disdainful.”

Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin brought the topic back around to Biden, saying that there was a way to have the conversation without making it solely about the politics, arguing that the latter would not be “helpful to anyone.”

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Goldberg claims “there’s no way” Biden had cancer during his presidency and hid it from the voters:
“[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there’s no way you wouldn’t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was… pic.twitter.com/S0Egee6YbR

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 19, 2025

Goldberg jumped back in to insist it was impossible for Biden to have had cancer while he was president because he would not have been able to hide the treatments from the public.

“[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there’s no way you wouldn’t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was carrying around or that he was hiding,” she said.