The View justifies Biden’s refusal to acknowledge his seventh grandchild
Jack Elbaum
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The View isn’t exactly known for its thoughtful and well-reasoned takes. But a new low may have been reached on today’s show.
While discussing the fact President Joe Biden has seven grandchildren but says he only has six, refusing to acknowledge the seventh even exists, most of the hosts made excuses for him.
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Whoopi Goldberg said that people should be complaining about Hunter Biden, not Joe, because “It’s not the president’s baby.” Ana Navarro jumped in, agreeing. She pointed out that “It’s very hard for Joe Biden to be a grandfather to the child if his son is not being a father.” She then added that this story can be considered nothing more than a ploy by the “MAGA world” to attack Biden.
At the end of the segment, Goldberg and Sunny Hostin demanded, exasperated, that the media “find something else to write about” because “this is not anybody’s business. Nobody needed to know about this.”
Wow. This is a master class on how people lose their basic sense of humanity when they become too wrapped up in the tribalism of politics.
It should be uncontroversial to say that on a basic, human level it is awful to literally pretend that one of your own grandchildren is not, in fact, your grandchild. This is particularly true when that young child (in this case, four years old) knows who her father and grandfather are — yet they refuse to even acknowledge her, let alone care for her.
That this characterizes the situation of the president of the United States and one of his grandchildren is of course relevant to the public. Beyond the basic cruelty of it, a central part of President Biden’s public persona is as a caring and loving husband, father, and grandfather. Yet this sharply undercuts that idea. A New York Times story explained that “The girl (…) speaks about [Hunter and Joe Biden] often, but she has not met them.” I would be surprised if she ever met them.
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The hosts chalk up the attention on this story to partisanship, but the opposite is true. Any regular person can approach the facts here and recognize it is an issue for “president empathy” — a man whose motto is that “the absolute most important thing is your family” — to ignore his own grandchild. It is those who claim there is nothing to see here whatsoever and that we must just look the other way that are being led astray by political loyalties.
I don’t worry that the hosts of The View will convince Americans to abandon what they know intuitively to be true. But this segment is a good reminder of the level of brain-rot politics can cause.
Jack Elbaum is a summer 2023 Washington Examiner fellow.