According to the unhinged conspiracy theorists of ABC News’s The View on Friday’s episode, not only was President Trump a master manipulator of people, he was apparently also a master manipulator of the space-time continuum. They found it suspicious that Trump shared a birthday with the U.S. Army; and instead of celebrating their 250 years of defending America, several cast members bashed the soldiers who would be marching in Washington, D.C. on Saturday by equating them to Nazis, Russians, and North Koreans.
“Tanks will be rolling through the nation's capital along with 7,000 marching soldiers to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States Army,” warned fill-in moderator Joy Behar, “and it happens to be his 79th birthday! What a coincidence!”
“And it’s on his birthday! It’s on his birthday!” she doubled down on the conspiracy theory later in the show. At no point did any of her fellow cast members attempt to debunk the conspiracy theory.
The U.S. Army was founded in 1775 as the Continental Army by the Continental Congress to fight against Great Britain, a fact known to history. 171 years later, in 1946, Trump was born in New York. It’s the very definition of a coincidence, and at no point did Behar explain what she specifically found unbelievable about it.
If we want to use her extremely dim logic, Behar must be in league with Hamas because her birthday is October 7, 1942. One year after she was born, the Japanese executed nearly 100 American POWs on Wake Island during WWII. “What a coincidence!”
Elsewhere in their pearl clutching about the Army’s birthday parade, pretend independent Sara Haines equated the roughly 7,000 troops that would be marching on Saturday to the jackboots of America’s enemies including the Nazis:
I can't be the only one when I think of military parades, I think of Russia, I think of North Korea. I have these visuals of people saluting and doing things, and that's just not what I think of when I think of the U.S. … a parade that harkens World War II propaganda and just throw the money that way? I can't keep up with all of it.
The View's Sara Haines HATES America's troops. She says they're going tot look like Nazis and North Koreans marching through DC:
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 13, 2025
"When I think of military parades, I think of Russia, I think of North Korea. I have these visuals of people saluting and doing things and that's just… pic.twitter.com/MO6b1rbwkM
Oh no! Soldiers carrying out the authoritarian actions of “saluting and doing things?!” Oh, the inhumanity!
Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin took her own swings at those troops by also suggesting that they were going to be putting on a show for “Dear King” Trump, like the Russians and North Koreans, rather than being respectable like France and U.K.:
Bastille Day in France, they do a military-style parade. VE Day in the U.K. they do a military-style parade. But it very much a pro-democracy demonstration as opposed to something you would see on the streets of Moscow or on the streets in North Korea. And that's what's going to matter.
Is this a bunch of tanks and troops walking up to dear king at the end of the street or is it simply the Blue Angels flying over and us celebrating the American might and those who have risen their hand to serve.
“[M]y concern is it going to be a celebration of a politician and a man. And I think it's pretty clear that's what's it's going to be,” she proclaimed without evidence.
It’s also worth pointing out Farah Griffin’s profound ignorance. Despite often bragging about working in the Pentagon’s press shop, she didn’t seem to know that the Blue Angels were with the Navy and not the Army.
Farah Griffin dismisses how the U.S. military is seeing recruitment numbers go through the roof.
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She claims Trump not the Democrats had made the military "seem partisan and tied to a certain political agenda or even controversial."
Behar doubles on suggesting it's a conspiracy… pic.twitter.com/ecyHS38vHs
Haines would follow the lead of fake Republican Ana Navarro as she falsely and ridiculously claimed that America had “never” ever had a military parade before Trump:
NAVARRO: It's the hypocrisy. It's the fact that we never did it as America. We never had these type of parades. Because we are the biggest military force and when you are the biggest and the baddest and the most powerful you don't need to show off.
HOSTIN: No.
NAVARRO: Leave it for Kim Jong-Un, leave it for the dictators.
There was a military parade in D.C. on June 8, 1991 as part of the National Victory Celebration following America’s victory in the first Gulf War. That’s not to mention the military parades all around the country every year to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Behar went on to suggest that because Trump’s family didn’t have a history of military service, the American people would reject the idea of having a big powerful military at all: “His father, his grandfather, none of them have served, and yet he wants to have this big military. Are Americans going to respond positively to that fact or what?”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 13, 2025
11:02:37 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: Tanks will be rolling through the nation's capital along with 7,000 marching soldiers to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. There will also be No Kings demonstrations around the country to protest Trump, and it happens to be his 79th birthday! What a coincidence!
(…)
11:04:03 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: But I don't understand this. I can't be the only one when I think of military parades, I think of Russia, I think of North Korea. I have these visuals of people saluting and doing things, and that's just not what I think of when I think of the U.S.
And - Senator Rand Paul said we were always different than these images. And we were proud not to be that. And then you also think about the conversations about cutting waste and here you've got like how much is this going to cost? $40 million.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: On the low end, yeah.
SUNNY HOSTIN: On the low end. Up to 45 million.
HAINES: Who thinks, like okay, let's cut like all the aid and the school lunches and all the good stuff, but let’s throw a parade that harkens World War II propaganda and just throw the money that way? I can't keep up with all of it.
(…)
11:06:27 a.m. Eastern
ANA NAVARRO: It's the hypocrisy. It's the fact that we never did it as America. We never had these type of parades. Because we are the biggest military force and when you are the biggest and the baddest and the most powerful you don't need to show off.
HOSTIN: No.
NAVARRO: Leave it for Kim Jong-Un, leave it for the dictators.
BEHAR: Here we have a guy who avoided Vietnam because of his bone spurs. No one, according to what I read, no one in his family has ever served. His father, his grandfather, none of them have served, and yet he wants to have this big military. Are Americans going to respond positively to that fact or what?
FARAH GRIFFIN: Listen, I think Americans will want to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army but how you do it matters. There's different traditions in America than there are in most of the world. Bastille Day in France, they do a military-style parade. VE Day in the U.K. they do a military-style parade. But it very much a pro-democracy demonstration as opposed to something you would see on the streets of Moscow or on the streets in North Korea. And that's what's going to matter.
Is this a bunch of tanks and troops walking up to dear king at the end of the street or is it simply the Blue Angels flying over and us celebrating the American might and those who have risen their hand to serve.
(…)
11:07:56 a.m. Eastern
FARAH GRIFFIN: So, I am all for any demonstration that's a celebration of the military, my concern is it going to be a celebration of a politician and a man. And I think it's pretty clear that's what's it's going to be.
(…)
11:11:00 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: And it’s on his birthday! It’s on his birthday! I will be interested if stormy Daniels would jump out of a cake.
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