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TDS-ravaged Joy Behar says NY Giants QB is ‘the definition of stupidity and racist’ just for introducing Trump

May 27, 2026 | | Print Article

A football player’s support for the president caught the attention of “The View” and left many hoping the “definition of stupidity and racist” takeaway prompts a defamation suit.

Late last week, New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart stoked leftist ire when he introduced President Donald Trump with enthusiastic support for the leader of the free world. The ensuing backlash reached ABC’s daily coffee klatch on Tuesday, where the First Amendment support intersected with allusions of harm befalling the young man as co-host Joy Behar suggested, “Maybe he needs a little extra padding.”

After airing Dart’s introduction of Trump and subsequent remarks from the president in favor of the quarterback, “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg led off the segment, innocently enough, as she expressed, “Isn’t he entitled to his … I mean, he’s entitled to his thing.”

This was immediately followed by Behar connecting the player to allegations against the chief executive as she said, “For somebody to back a guy like Trump, whose history in discrimination and racism goes back to housing discrimination in the ’70s, DEI attacks and posting pictures of the Obamas as apes, when he’s on a team that’s 55-60% of the NFL is … that much percentage of black people, that that is just the definition of stupidity and racist in my opinion.”

Absent from Behar’s ranting were the facts that the housing discrimination case brought against the Trumps was settled outside of court, opposition to DEI is itself opposition to racial discrimination, and Trump himself had spoken out against the clip of a “Lion King” parody including the Obamas erroneously appearing at the end of a Truth Social post — something former President Barack Obama has continued to whine about.

Despite those realities and claims of supporting free speech, the ladies saw fit to talk up consequences for Dart, including the comedian who suggested, “Maybe he needs a little extra padding.”

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As was previously reported, while other professional athletes and celebrities frequently get a pass for touting leftist views, support for Trump is not so readily taken in stride. As with “The View,” commentator Emmanuel Acho accused the quarterback of lacking “wisdom or discernment” over the favorable introduction.

Meanwhile, speaking for herself and the black community, Sunny Hostin said, “This feels personal. And I think if you are someone who attacks the community to which I belong, and you support that, that tells me two things. Either one, you agree with his politics, and you agree with his biases, or you can be adjacent to it, stomach it, and that means you are complicit in my view.”

Rather than actually inviting the expression of differing opinions, the First Amendment support appeared to be slanted toward exposing opposition in line with the “silence is violence” perspective that treats contrarian views as acts of aggression.

No matter the case, social media responses included numerous calls for Dart to take Behar to court for how she categorized his support for Trump.

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