The View’s co-hosts scrambled to correct Sunny Hostin’s notion that climate change was to blame for Monday’s solar eclipse and last week’s earthquake.
It began when Alyssa Farrah Griffin brought up a fun fact about Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course.
“With the earthquake on Friday and the eclipse today, people are having all sorts of conspiracies about the end of the world, and then I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster in New Jersey. Fun fact. So it originated with Trump,” she said.
That led to this exchange:
HOSTIN: I know, right? I have to say, one of our wonderful makeup artists…when the earthquake was happening, she put her coat on and she was, like, Jesus is coming. I’m out. I’m leaving. We got a solar eclipse. We’ve got an earthquake. She ran down the hallway.
GRIFFIN: The Rapture is here!
HOSTIN: The Rapture is here. Also, I learned that the cica-ah-das are coming.
GOLDBERG: Cicadas.
HOSTIN: For the first time in a hundred years.
GOLDBERG: No, no, no, no. There’s two different kinds coming. There’s two different kinds of cicadas coming.
BEHAR: The good cicadas and the bad cicadas.
HOSTIN: This is for the first time in many, many years.
GOLDBERG: No, every 17 years this happens.
HOSTIN: That’s not what I read, but maybe, you know, maybe you know better.
GOLDBERG: But, either way —
HOSTIN: All those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.
BEHAR: Earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground.
GOLDBERG: The eclipse, and they’ve known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually can say when these things are going to happen. So all these folks who are saying, you know, it’s a sign from God — God doesn’t give you warning. Ok? You think he gave people at the Tower of Babble a warning? “Oh, I’m about to jack y’all up?” No. God does stuff and then you figure, oh.
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