Overview
- Whoopi Goldberg opened the show by calling out the pattern as “Obama and Biden Derangement Syndrome” after reviewing clips from the Dec. 17 address.
- Sunny Hostin said she attempted real-time fact-checking with ChatGPT during the speech and concluded many assertions were false or unsupported.
- Sara Haines criticized the timing of the address and argued Trump’s crime rhetoric clashes with pardons she noted for January 6 participants, the Silk Road creator, and Honduras’s former president.
- Alyssa Farah Griffin described the remarks as a “highlight reel” and said the message signaled recognition of an affordability crisis that Trump has publicly dismissed.
- One outlet reported that viewers pointed to insulting plaques added beneath White House portraits of Biden, Obama, and Clinton, which critics used to question the speech’s credibility.