(OPINION) “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin blamed Monday’s solar eclipse, Friday’s earthquake, and the expected cicada breeding season on “climate change.”
She said Monday that “All those things together would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists or something is really going on.”
On Friday, a 4.8-magnitude earthquake was felt across New York and New Jersey; on Monday, the highly anticipated solar eclipse swept across the continental U.S.
Hostin also claimed that her studio makeup artist “put on her coat” and “ran down the hallway” during the earthquake, saying, “Jesus is coming” and “The rapture is here.”
However, co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg pushed back on her theory. “Except earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground. It can’t,” Behar said.
“How about the warming of the planet?” she responded. “No, it happens,” Goldberg said. And the eclipse? They’ve known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen, and they actually can say when these things are going to happen.”
Hostin pointed out how it was the first time in 100 years that two different cicada broods would emerge for their mating seasons at the same time, but Goldberg promptly shut her down, arguing it happens every 17 years.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin joked that Trump caused the quake: “I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster in New Jersey … Fun fact. So, it originated with Trump.”
Others have caught flak for similar takes, including Green Party member and U.S. Senate candidate for New Jersey Christina Amira Khalil, who went viral after she posted a similar theory to social media claiming the earthquake that rocked New York and New Jersey on Friday was caused by climate change.
