“The View ”hosts call Trump's presidential plaques mocking Obama and Biden 'juvenile and unhinged'
- - “The View ”hosts call Trump's presidential plaques mocking Obama and Biden 'juvenile and unhinged'
Emlyn TravisDecember 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Donald Trump listens during a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec. 15, 2025 in Washington, DC; Sunny Hostin on 'The View'
The ladies of The View are not impressed with Donald Trump’s new “Presidential Walk of Fame" in the West Wing Colonnade of the White House.
The Hot Topics table was alight with conversation on Thursday about the recently unveiled portrait gallery, which features photographs of past presidents with plaques placed underneath that trash them and their achievements.
“I want to read what [Trump] says about Barack Obama, because we love Barack Obama and it’s wrong of him,” Joy Behar said. “[Trump] writes — and he acts like this is real and history — ‘A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American history.’ Why, because he was Black? Everything is about race with him!”
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Newly installed plaques summarizing the legacies as interpreted by the Trump White House of former U.S. Presidents Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush are shown along the colonnade, or the Presidential Walk of Fame, Dec. 17, 2025 in Washington, DC
Sunny Hostin added that Obama “lives rent-free” within Trump’s head. “He will never be the type of president [that] president Obama was,” she continued. “He’s not gonna win that Nobel Peace Prize.”
Obama isn’t the only president whose administration was criticized in their respective plaques, which are written in a similar style to that of Trump’s social media posts. Joe Biden’s plaque, which is featured underneath an image of his signature written by the presidential autopen, describes him as “by far, the worst President in American History” and claims that he “oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction.”
Unlike other two term presidents, Trump received two separate plaques that give glowing reviews of his time in office. The one for his second term emphasizes that “THE BEST IS YET TO COME."
On The View, Alyssa Farah Griffin explained that Trump is “doing this to trigger people,” adding, “He wants people to get outraged and to troll, because that’s how he is.”
The Republican cohost and former Trump staffer went on to wish that the 79-year-old politician “had people around him who weren’t just so online," noting that “no one in real life lives this way." She added, “I wish they’d get off the internet where everyone just throws mud at each other and act like real people.”
The entire project was mind-boggling for Hostin. “Can we all agree though that this is so juvenile and unhinged that it is beneath the dignity of the president of the United States?” the legal expert asked as the audience applauded.
To which Griffin added, “Who has time?”
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Behar, however, was glad that one president managed to escape Trump’s commentary. “He left Thomas Jefferson alone,” she teased. “I dated Thomas Jefferson, so just leave him alone!”
Hostin went on to recall her first visit to the White House with her son, Gabriel. “It was an experience for me unlike any other,” she said. Turning to Griffin, she continued, “And I’m sure you felt the same way, you walk in, that’s the People’s House! That’s not his house! It’s horrible!”
Griffin noted, “There’s also just better things to do in your day than this!”
But Behar wasn't too concerned about the gallery in the end. "And they'll be coming down the next administration anyway," she said. "No one's gonna leave that up."
The View airs weekdays on ABC.
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