{"id":302959,"date":"2025-10-14T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/302959\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:37:11","slug":"don-jr-eggs-on-the-view-host-alyssa-farah-griffin-over-maga-hat-hostage-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/302959\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Jr. eggs on &#8216;The View&#8217; host Alyssa Farah Griffin over MAGA hat-hostage promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Jr. is urging \u201cThe View\u201d host Alyssa Farah Griffin to stick to her promise to wear a MAGA hat on the show if President Trump arranged a deal to free the Israeli hostages.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s eldest son on Monday posted a video of Griffin waging the bet on the ABC morning show earlier this year, writing: \u201cSending this to the top. Let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His post quickly racked up 3.5 million views and over 172,000 likes \u2013 as well as several responses from other social media users who appeared to use artificial intelligence to superimpose red MAGA hats on Griffin and her lefty co-hosts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe View\u201d co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin promised to wear a MAGA hat on the show if Trump brokered a deal to free the hostages. ABC<\/p>\n<p>Reps for ABC didn\u2019t immediately respond to a Post request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas released <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/13\/world-news\/last-living-israeli-hostages-freed-by-hamas-after-737-days-of-hell-as-peace-deal-takes-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all 20 remaining living hostages on Monday<\/a> after holding them captive for over two years, part of a historic ceasefire deal that Trump brokered between Israel and the terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, Griffin said on \u201cThe View:\u201d \u201cIf [Trump] does good, if he gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will wear a MAGA hat for one day on this show and say thank you for doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunny Hostin, a left-leaning legal analyst and co-host of \u201cThe View,\u201d jumped in: \u201cPlease don\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019ll knock it right off my head,\u201d Griffin said with a laugh, referring to Hostin. \u201cYou have to be able to cheer for wins when they happen and then call out relentlessly the wrongdoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin served as the White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president in 2020, during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump Jr. is egging on Griffin to keep her promise and wear a MAGA hat on \u201cThe View.\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>She is one of the few conservative voices on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View,\u201d alongside co-hosts Hostin, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines and Ana Navarro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During Monday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe View,\u201d Griffin praised her former boss\u2019 involvement in the Gaza ceasefire deal \u2013 though she didn\u2019t mention any plans to don a red cap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this peace deal holds, which I pray that it does, it\u2019s historic, it is a massive diplomatic achievement and I think the whole world can breathe a sigh of relief,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Released Israeli hostage Segev Kalfon reunites with loved ones. via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether you like Trump or not, I think he, Steve Witkoff, and I think Jared Kushner do deserve credit for this deal. They personally met with Hamas,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to be of the mind we don\u2019t negotiate with terrorists, but sometimes the only way to get peace is to sit down with some of the most evil people and try to come up with what we can do to end the bloodshed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Jr. is urging \u201cThe View\u201d host Alyssa Farah Griffin to stick to her promise to wear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":302960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1605,171,45564,398,6219,277,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-302959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump-jr","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hostages","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-the-view","13":"tag-trump","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115373268181604432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}