No one has ever accused the cast of ABC’s The View of being truly reflective or the pinnacle of civility on daytime TV. Yet on Monday’s show, in the wake of America remembering the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the cast was perplexed by the apparent loss of civility and unity in the country. One co-host even suggested that until America had a racial reckoning for slavery, we would NEVER be able to replicate that kind of unity.

Following a soundbite of President Biden’s 9/11 address, co-host Whoopi Goldberg wondered: “What's happened? What's been lost with the loss of civility?” “It's one of those things where it didn't matter what side of the aisle you were on, people united. Much like we did during the pandemic, in the early days of the pandemic, where people just were like, let me take care of my neighbor,” she fondly recalled.

Goldberg may be confused about “what’s happened,” but it wasn’t like The View has really tried to preserve civil discourse. A week ago, her audio needed to be cut because she was cursing out Republicans for opposing student loan bailouts. And earlier this year, co-host Sunny Hostin lashed out at black and Latino Republicans by calling them an “oxymoron.”

Of course, Hostin had something to say in this instance too. She opined about how America was able to rally because 9/11 was carried out by foreign terrorists. But now that the threat was supposedly “white supremacy and domestic terrorism,” the country was refusing to mobilize.