Forgotten History: Behar Claims Only Trump Criticizes Predecessors In Recent Politics

Perhaps “The View” should change its theme song to Sam Cooke’s “Wonderful World.” It may seem rather appropriate with the intro of “Don’t Know Much About History.”

That is because cohost Joy Behar made a bold claim on Thursday’s show — that in her lifetime, President Donald Trump is the first sitting president to outwardly trash a former president, per The Daily Wire.

Behar, 82, seemed to forget how former President Barack Obama took former President George W. Bush to task for eight years on basically everything.

The controversial statement started with Behar talking about the Trump administration’s criticisms of former President Joe Biden. She stated that since Biden was no longer in office, they need to “move on.”

“They also have a tendency to place the blame on the Biden administration. It’s like, move on, that ship has sailed,” she said. “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.”

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Cohost Sara Haines chimed in with her own narrative.

“But it’s the common enemy, it’s what drives their base together,” Haines said, implying Republicans have bonded over their hatred for the Biden administration.

However, history shows something different as Obama blamed Bush for the country’s economic woes between 2009 and 2016.

“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,” Obama said when he was president.

Obama also blamed Bush that “the efforts to apply pressure on Iran were in tatters.” This was a problem Obama had to solve by giving billions of dollars to Iran as it moved closer to having nuclear weapons.

Biden, himself, pointed to Trump for issues that took place between 2021 and 2024, including inflation and for the unemployment rate brought on mainly by the COVID-19 pandemic and the shutdowns that followed.

Many took to X to point out Behar and Haines’s faux pas.