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The View cohosts are fed up with male politicians, judging by Monday’s Hot Topics chat.
“Are men okay?” Alyssa Farah Griffin asked.
“Just keep it in your pants. Just stop, stop, stop being stupid!” Whoopi Goldberg later advised.
The Viewcohosts would like to revamp the American political sphere with men who are up to snuff, thank you very much!
On Monday morning, as the cohosts broke down the drama surrounding Maine’s Senate race — involving various accusations of problematic behavior against Democratic politician Graham Platner — they joined together to call for better options in terms of male politicians across the board.
In response to what moderator Whoopi Goldberg outlined as an unverified report that Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, “gave his campaign a heads-up about her husband [allegedly] sending sexually explicit texts to several different women” (which Gertner called “gossip” in a subsequent social media video), the panel segued into a wider criticism of male-dominated politics.
“Baby, these men are having the hardest time. It does’t even matter what side of the fence you’re on. These men are just whippin’ and racin’ all through the place,” Goldberg joked.
Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin on ‘The View’
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“Are men okay?” conservative cohost and former Donald Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin asked as the audience chuckled.
Goldberg doubled down on her estimation of the general political arena, telling the audience, “I just thought, no shade gentlemen, but it just feels like y’all are out of control. Every time we turn around somebody got somebody else up against a wall, in the bed. What is happening?”
Ana Navarro, a Republican panelist who has long criticized Trump and his administration, said she felt “we’ve seen a lot” more “men gone wild” in 2026, but pointed to what she felt was hypocrisy among “all those Bible-clutching Christians [who] voted for the guy who we all heard boast about sexual assault.”
She also pointed to other recent political scandals that spanned the political spectrum, including scandals involving Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell and Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales.
At the end of the segment, Goldberg said the behavior of the aforementioned men represented, in her opinion, “character flaws that I’m tired of hearing about” in American politics.
“Just keep it in your pants. Just stop, stop, stop being stupid,” she advised, before the show cut to a commercial break.
‘The View’ cohosts
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Amid his bid for U.S. Senate, Platner has faced several controversies, including once sporting a tattoo of a skull and crossbones he said that he got 20 years ago while drunk with fellow Marines. The tattoo was widely criticized for resembling a symbol used by Nazis, and, as the Associated Press reported in November 2025, Platner has maintained that he wasn’t aware of what the symbol meant when he got it. He’s since had it covered up.
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“Going to a tattoo-removal place is going to take a while,” he told the outlet. “I wanted this thing off my body.” He also attributed other past problematic behavior — including anti-LGBTQ+ remarks — to a fragile mental state as he grappled with post-traumatic stress disorder after leaving the Army in 2012.
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