‘The View’ Segment Briefly Halted By Lighting Issue: “What’s Going On?”

With a live show, technical difficulties are bound to happen every once in a while. On this morning’s episode of The View, the first Hot Topics segment of the day was briefly halted when the studio lights began flickering.

It all went down after the ladies marched out to The View’s theme song. They nestled in their chairs as Whoopi Goldberg said her usual, “Hello, hello, hello and welcome to The View,” before introducing the first Hot Topic, which had to do with Donald Trump‘s controversial social media activity last weekend.

She explained, “You know who spent the most sacred weekend on the Catholic calendar posting rants about the judge in his New York fraud case, making false claims about the judge’s daughter and reposting a violent image of President Biden that we are not going to show you here today.”

Goldberg then posed a couple of questions to her co-hosts: Why does he keep getting away with it? And why didn’t the Secret Service spark an investigation the same way they did when comedian Kathy Griffin posted a violent photo of Trump?

“They should, because everyone should be treated equally under the law and we keep on saying that, and it really is true,” Sunny Hostin began. “That’s why I was supportive of the bond that he got being sort of — uh oh.”

(Editor’s Note: The View is currently on hiatus; contrary to what you may have heard, The View was not canceled today. This article was originally published on April 2, 2024 when this episode first aired. The View will return with new episodes next week.)

After stopping mid-sentence, Hostin looked around in confusion, telling the audience, “Someone’s speaking to us. The lights are flickering.”

Goldberg then added, “Do you see it? Does anybody else see the lights flickering?” to which Hostin joked, “Did you do anything bad this weekend, Whoopi? What’s going on?”

But you know what they say: the show must go on. Without skipping much of a beat, Hostin proceeded to finish her point.

“I was very supportive of the fact that the bond was lowered because I think that’s how you would treat everyone equally. Bonds are not supposed to be punitive,” Hostin continued. “But I will say this. Trump has given people permission, license to be politically violent. And this is from the very, very beginning.”

She concluded, “What we’re missing now is the statesmanship that we’ve always been used to — you know, the presidential office being above reproach … It’s behavior that seems to come from the top-down. People are saying, ‘Well, it’s the Jan. 6 folks.’ It’s even worse when it comes from the president or the potential President of the United States of America.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.