Elisabeth Hasselbeck claps back after Sunny Hostin called her ‘on the show’ to vote for Trump: ‘I proudly voted for Trump’

Sunny Hostin and Elisabeth Hasselbeck Share a tense moment The view When Hostin criticized President Trump for ordering the United States to attack Iran, despite running on an anti-war platform during the 2024 election.

“I thought this was going to be a president of peace,” she said. “I thought this president wanted to win the Nobel Peace Prize for peace.” “That’s not what I see. I don’t see America first.”

Houston then targeted Hasselbeck, an outspoken conservative who currently serves as host Alyssa Farrah Griffin This week while on maternity leave. Hasselbeck previously co-hosted The view From 2003 to 2013.

“I think the people who voted for Trump — I wasn’t one of them, I think you were — those people wanted America first,” Houston continued.

Hasselbeck didn’t let Hostin finish her thought before intervening.

“I proudly voted for Trump,” she confirmed. “Because the alternative wasn’t great, and we would almost certainly be under the wrong force.”

When the hosts started talking to each other, Whoopi Goldberg She intervened to send the show to commercial, after which the hosts continued sharing their thoughts on the US bombing of Iran.

Tensions began to rise during Hasselbeck’s first day The view. But the former host said she was “grateful” to be invited back to the show when she took the stage for the first time with her co-hosts, at the start of her week as a guest host on the ABC talk show.

“Civil discourse is not dead! We may have differences of opinion but we love each other and we are stronger for it,” she declared at the top of the show.

However, Hasselbeck teased that some drama might arise, continuing: “We can hold our places in one hand and each other’s hands in the other, and be able to live as Americans with the freedom that we have, and speak with our hearts and our minds. We have to do that all week long.”

“It can get a little heated sometimes,” Hasselbeck admitted. “But we don’t hate each other. We love each other.”

The view It airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.