House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) blasted the ABC daytime talk show “The View” as “absurd” after hosts mocked and questioned the Trump administration’s efforts to increase birth rates.
“‘The View’ is an absurd program,” Johnson told Fox News host Will Cain in an interview Wednesday on “The Will Cain Show.” “Every creative idea that the president and this White House come up with, they pan immediately no matter what merit it may have.”
“The View” hosts on Wednesday discussed reports of the Trump administration’s push for a new “baby boom,” citing declining birth rates.
“I am incredibly insulted by this, because, clearly, they don’t know how women’s bodies work, and they don’t know what it costs to raise a child or just have a child,” co-host and comedian Whoopi Goldberg said during the episode.
In a clip Fox News played before Johnson’s interview, co-host Sunny Hostin noted that birth rates are rising among some minority groups, including Hispanic and Asian women.
“So they don’t seem to be concerned about that increase,” she said. “They seem to be more concerned about a decrease in other populations.”
“I think I’ve said enough,” she said with a smirk as the crowd laughed.
But Johnson defended calls for more babies to be born in the U.S.
“We are the Republican Party. We’re the pro-family party. We always have been,” he said.
The Trump administration is reportedly mulling new policies to encourage American women to have more children, including offering $5,000 bonuses after moms give birth and creating new programs to promote fertility and larger families.
The New York Times reported Monday that the Trump administration “is listening to a lot of different ideas and soliciting input on all of this.”
