--- title: Donald Trump Jr., Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Clash On The View description: At times the conversations reached shouting levels, causing the co-hosts to repeatedly request everyone to "stop yelling," adding "I can hear you." canonical: https://time.com/5721779/donald-trump-jr-the-view/ author: Madeleine Carlisle article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-11-08T01:51:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:52.205Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Jr.'s Appearance On The View Went About As Well As You Would Expected It Would og:description: At times the conversations reached shouting levels, causing the co-hosts to repeatedly requested everyone "stop yelling," adding "I can hear you." og:url: https://time.com/5721779/donald-trump-jr-the-view/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfa3a1c4131a74bf/698a05874ee2625c663168e9/donald-trump-jr-the-view.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: donald trump jr the view og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Jr.'s Appearance On The View Went About As Well As You Would Expected It Would twitter:description: At times the conversations reached shouting levels, causing the co-hosts to repeatedly requested everyone "stop yelling," adding "I can hear you." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfa3a1c4131a74bf/698a05874ee2625c663168e9/donald-trump-jr-the-view.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Jr.'s Appearance on _The View_ Went Just as You'd Expect an Appearance From Donald Trump Jr. on _The View_ to Go > Sponsored content. 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Meghan McCain delivered a tearful and deeply personal tribute to Sen. John McCain at his funeral Saturday morning – paying tribute to his devotion and tenderness as a father and family man._  by [Madeleine Carlisle](https://time.com/author/madeleine-carlisle/)  ## Madeleine Carlisle Nov 8, 2019 1:51 AM UTC  Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle appearing on ABC's "The View" on Nov. 7. Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle appearing on ABC's "The View" on Nov. 7. Lou Rocco—ABC via Getty Images  by [Madeleine Carlisle](https://time.com/author/madeleine-carlisle/)  ## Madeleine Carlisle Nov 8, 2019 1:51 AM UTC During Thursday’s broadcast, Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend [Kimberly Guilfoyle](https://time.com/4781022/kimberly-guilfoyle-white-house-press-secretary-sean-spicer/)‘s appearance on _The View_ got predictably heated. When co-host Joy Behar [announced their appearance last week,](https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1190295486806183938?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1190295486806183938&ref%5Furl=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2019%2F11%2Fdonald-trump-jr-the-view-kimberly-guilfoyle-joy-behar-meghan-mccain-1202774530%2F) the audience audibly gasped. Thursday’s in-studio guests were even more vocal. President Trump’s oldest son and the former Fox News host were booked on the show to promote Trump Jr.’s new book, _Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us_, but the interview touched on a range of subjects including the impeachment inquiry, the 2020 presidential race, and the broader state of political rhetoric in the United States. The pair sparred with many of the talk show’s co-hosts, including Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, while the audience responded with competing boos and cheers. Protestors also [reportedly](https://www.tmz.com/2019/11/07/donald-trump-jr-heated-exchange-joy-behar-whoopi-the-view/) swarmed Trump Jr.’s car as he both entered and left the studio. [A dispatch in _The Hollywood Reporter_](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/booing-is-fing-us-up-view-melts-down-donald-trump-jr-visit-1253109) from a member of the audience claimed that Goldberg remonstrated them during a commercial break. “The booing is f-cking us up,” _THR_ says Goldberg said. “It’s messing with everyone’s mic,” Goldberg allegedly continued. “You can grimace and all that. All we hear is booing.” > [](https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1192548511033831427) During the broadcast, co-host Meghan McCain, daughter of late Senator John McCain, asked Trump Jr. for a response to his father’s impact on political discourse in the U.S. “You and your family have hurt a lot of people and put a lot of people through a lot of pain,” she said. “Does all of this make you feel good?” “I don’t think any of that makes me feel good, but I do think we got into this because we wanted to do what’s right for America,” Trump Jr. responded. “I understand that \[my father\] is controversial. I understand that he has offended a lot of people, but I understand that he took on the establishment, and that’s the premiere sin in American politics these days.” Over the years, President Trump repeatedly mocked Sen. McCain, criticizing him for being held as a prisoner of war and tortured during the Vietnam War and [saying](https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317) he like “people that weren’t captured.” The President and Sen. McCain had also [sparred on issues](https://time.com/4993304/john-mccain-donald-trump-feud-remarks/) such as healthcare reform, so much so that Sen. McCain [reportedly](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/05/john-mccain-battling-cancer-tells-joe-biden-stay-politics/583593002/) did not want Trump attending his funeral. His wife Cindy McCain [said](https://time.com/5461466/cindy-mccain-trump-john-mccain-funeral/) in 2018 that she didn’t want President Trump at her husband’s funeral because she wanted to hold it “with dignity.” Meghan McCain has publicly criticized the President in defense of her father. In March, [she said on _The View_](https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1107676535866175489), “\[Trump\] spends his weekend obsessing over great men because he knows it and I know it and all of you know it: He will never be a great man.” All in all, then, everyone involved on Thursday seemed triggered by one comment or another — but no-one seemed to remember (much) that that was the book they were there to discuss. ## Transcript We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served. The America of John McCain is generous and welcoming and bold, she is resourceful, confident and secure. She meets her responsibilities, she speaks quietly because she is strong. America does not boast because she has no need to. The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great. [ APPLAUSE ] That fervent faith, that proven devotion, that abiding love That is what drove my father from the fiery skies above the Red River Delta to the brink of the presidency itself. Love defined my father. As a young man, h wondered if he would measure up to his distinguished lineage. I miss him so badly. I want to tell him that he did, but I take small comfort in this. Somewhere in the great beyond where the warriors go, there are two admirals of the United States meeting their much loved son. They're telling him he is the greatest among them. Dad, I love you, I always have. All that I am, all that I hope All that I dream is grounded in what you taught me. 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