Being the only Republican on The View, Alyssa Farah Griffin is used to facing rejection when it comes to her perspective on certain political issues.
During this morning’s episode, Griffin poked fun at her experience on the hit daytime talk show while discussing the new “rejection therapy” trend that’s gone viral on TikTok thanks to a woman who applied to Harvard thinking rejection would help build her confidence, but ended up getting waitlisted from the prestigious school instead.
“Every day on this show is rejection therapy for me,” Griffin quipped. While Joy Behar and Sara Haines laughed at her self-deprecating joke, Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg wore confused looks on their faces.
“No, but seriously, I walk out and I know I’m gonna say something that a lot of the table disagrees with, a lot of the audience does, and I think it’s made me a better communicator in the sense that I don’t do it in a way — or I’m trying to — that ’s forcing it down someone’s throat and that’s acknowledging people might see things differently,” Griffin continued.
The former White House staffer said she “recommends” rejection therapy, noting that you have “to force yourself into uncomfortable places.”
It’s no secret that Griffin sometimes clashes with her co-hosts, none of whom personally identify with her Republican politics. While Ana Navarro used to be a member of the Republican party, she supported Kamala Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention (whom Griffin also voted for in 2024, breaking with her party for the first time) and previously backed Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden when they each ran for president.
Mere minutes before Griffin made her argument for the importance of rejection therapy, she went against the rest of the panel by revealing she was “perfectly fine” with President Donald Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
“I don’t actually hate renaming the Gulf of America, and I’m going to tell you why. It’s a more inclusive term. It is North America. Mexico and the United States are part of the Americas,” she said, explaining that this is just another thing that Trump is doing “to trigger a reaction from the media” so they can be distracted from the fact that he’s “getting rid of government agencies.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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