ESPN host Sage Steele criticized “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, calling the former White House Communications Director under Trump an “opportunist” on Wednesday.
Griffin urged the Democratic Party on Tuesday to “start fighting harder” as “time is running out,” suggesting that presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump might have “a chance” at defeating President Joe Biden in the upcoming election. Steele and panelists on “Gutfeld!” discussed the comments made by “The View” co-host, with the former ESPN host noting that “this is the first time” the Democratic Party lacks an obvious successor beyond Biden.
“I think it’s the first time, at least what, in the last 20 years, where there hasn’t been, ‘Okay, if not this, then this person.’ There’s silence,” Steele said. “I don’t recall the last time that happened on the Democrat side.”
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld commented that Democrats encourage voters to “imagine” Trump as unfit for office by creating “amorphous, dystopian what-ifs” about the potential “end” of “democracy.” In contrast, Gutfeld pointed out that voters “don’t have to imagine Joe Biden.”
Steele brought the conversation back to Griffin, prefacing that she was going to “be really mean” for a moment.
“Can I just real quick be really mean? I need, I need to,” Steele began. “I don’t wanna give Alyssa too much credit because how often have we been able to say she’s right? She worked for the Trump White House. Her entire career is because of the Trump White House, and she was behind everybody there, and then all of a sudden, he loses the election, and what does she do? She jumps to CNN and now to The View.”
“She’s an opportunist,” Steele continued. “And so, that’s it, you’re one and done.”
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Steele claimed she was suspended from ESPN in October 2021 due to her outspoken criticism of the company’s “scary” COVID-19 vaccination mandate for employees and her remarks about former President Barack Obama, as reported by NBC News. She made public her exit from ESPN following a settlement of her lawsuit against the Disney-owned network in August 2023.
