Well, would you look at that — another promise made on The View, another promise broken. Try to act shocked.
Alyssa Farah Griffin — the same former Trump staffer turned daytime TV darling who’s carved out a cozy niche trashing the man who helped build her career — made a very public pledge last year. It was simple, bold, and frankly hard to miss: If Trump brought the Israeli hostages home, she’d wear a MAGA hat on air and thank him. One day. One red hat. One little sliver of humility.
This was her last January:
Alyssa Farah on The View last January:
“If he gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will wear a MAGA hat for one day on this show.”pic.twitter.com/qdr4oBy7y0
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 13, 2025
And now? Crickets.
No MAGA hat. No on-air follow-through. No accountability.
Just a half-hearted, awkward moment on Monday’s episode where she reluctantly acknowledged that, yeah, Trump, Jared Kushner, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff probably deserve some credit for the peace deal that got those hostages home. But even then, it was like pulling teeth. A kind of verbal gymnastics routine that managed to give the former president a nod while dodging anything close to actual gratitude.
This is the same woman who once stood at the podium as Trump’s communications director and now spends her mornings nodding solemnly while Whoopi Goldberg compares basic border enforcement to war crimes. The moral high ground must be dizzying at that altitude.
So let’s go back to her actual words — just so we’re clear:
“If he does good, if he gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will wear a MAGA hat for one day on the show and say, ‘Thank you for doing it.’”
Sounds pretty straightforward, doesn’t it? No fine print. No escape clause. Not, “Well, only if it fits my new brand.” Not, “Only if my co-hosts don’t throw a tantrum.”
But when the deal actually happened, when the hostages were released, when families around the world took a breath they hadn’t taken in months — Alyssa Farah Griffin did not wear the hat.
Why? Because it’s one thing to throw out a hypothetical. It’s another thing entirely to go against the permanent scowl factory that is “The View’s” panel and acknowledge, publicly, that Donald Trump pulled off something extraordinary.
And make no mistake — this wasn’t just a symbolic win. This was real diplomacy. The kind that doesn’t happen with hashtags and hashtags and hashtags. Trump’s team — including Kushner and Witkoff — negotiated with literal terrorists and succeeded where countless international organizations failed.
What did Alyssa do? She flirted with the idea of intellectual honesty, then blinked.
White House communications director Steven Cheung didn’t hold back. “It’s time to put up or shut up,” he said. “This person is so thirsty for attention she worked against President Trump as he pursued—and ultimately achieved—a historic peace deal.”
And he’s not wrong. Farah Griffin wants to ride the “reasonable Republican” train right into a book deal, a podcast, and a permanent gig trashing the GOP for polite applause from Manhattan brunch tables. But you can’t have it both ways. You don’t get to posture as the adult in the room and then ghost your own promise because it’s politically inconvenient.
She said she’d wear the hat. She didn’t.
REPORTER: Alyssa Farah said if you got the hostages out, she’d wear a MAGA hat…
POTUS: “Did she put the hat on? She used to work for me.”
“Then got hired by The View, & they gave her a couple of bucks, & she changed her view very quickly.” pic.twitter.com/GshfqFSwDT
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 14, 2025
Why? Because deep down, giving Trump credit — real, visible, hat-on-the-head credit — would explode the narrative. The one where he’s always the villain. The one where the left is always the hero. The one where The View holds court over truth and morality, and inconvenient facts get quietly buried under layers of snark and selective amnesia.
But here’s the thing: America’s watching.
Not the studio audience. Not the producers. The actual people. The ones who still care about results. About peace. About keeping your word.
And they don’t forget broken promises — especially not the kind that come with a bright red hat.
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