"The View" began Thursday with one co-host gesticulating wildly to express the chaos seen from the White House for the past few weeks.
"Things have been happening like this," said Whoopi Goldberg, discussing the twist in President Donald Trump's trade war.
She mocked that the White House swore that it was all part of their plan.
"But it sure seemed to catch his trade representative by shock, really," she continued, rolling a clip of Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer testifying before the House.
He assured lawmakers he knew what would happen, but refused to reveal personal conversations with the president.
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"Look, you know, if they're saying that this was all strategic, then he is a sadist because what kind of government leader puts his people through this kind of distress and sadness and anxiety for a week just for giggles?" said longtime Republican strategist Ana Navarro.
"His supporters always say that he plays fourth-dimensional chess. I think he should be in a padded room playing with his own drool," Navarro continued as the audience cheered and laughed.
"The things he does are just simply lunacy, and we're not out of this," she continued. "We're not out of it by any means. Let's remember, as we sit here, there are 10% tariffs on everything. There's a 125% tariff on China."
"There's reciprocal tariffs from China. Let's not underestimate the result on consumer confidence of the havoc he has wreaked for the last 11 weeks," she added. "We have antagonized our allies yet again, and to me this is very much — this reminds me of what's happening with DOGE as well."
DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, was started by Trump through executive order upon entering the White House.
That initiative has been behind the upheaval and dismantling of government agencies. Websites, grants, programs, and employees have been cut or frozen under the promise that Trump will save taxpayers trillions.
"There's so many things that could be done with a scalpel and that people would say, this is a good idea. But, no," Navarro closed. "Like with DOGE, they go in there with a wrecking ball and, you know, just having absolutely no second thought about the consequences and we don't know. Listen, the bottom line is I think people are hunkering down, not going to be spending as much. Tourists aren't coming to America. The things we need for our major industry, they have tariffs on. People, I think, are, you know, have trauma from what we have endured these last 11 weeks, and this is not going away because he's putting a 90-day pause on it."
