The “View” co-hosts believe Kanye West is using his mental health issues as an excuse for going on antisemitic rants on social media.
“For some reason, Kanye’s been given a pass, and I know there’s a perception that he may have some mental health issues, but there are tens of millions of people around this country who have mental health issues and are not saying bigoted, racist, antisemitic things,” Alyssa Farah Griffin said during Friday’s episode.
“I think it’s a cop-out,” she added.
The political strategist, 35, argued that West, who most recently said he has autism after doubting his previous bipolar diagnosis, “needs to be called out for his behavior” following a global rise in antisemitism.
“This man has more social media followers than there are Jews in the world,” she pointed out. “He does have influence. There are people who are looking to him, especially young people. He should not be normalized.”
Sara Haines agreed with her co-host and questioned how the “Gold Digger” rapper, 47, was still “allowed to walk red carpets” and attend other events when he has been making “awful” comments for years.
“You keep seeing him pop up, and it’s not crazy, fringe things. It’s literally at the Grammys, and he’s walking the red carpet,” Haines, 47, said, referring to West’s wild 2025 Grammys stunt earlier this month with his wife, Bianca Censori, who removed her fur coat to reveal a completely sheer dress underneath.
Meanwhile, Sunny Hostin said she found the Yeezy founder’s latest tirade “really wrong” and “bizarre” because the “African American community and the Jewish community have always been tied.”
“Oppressed people must fight together, and so the fact that a black man would be so openly vile and antisemitic is just so jarring to me, and I don’t wanna blame it on mental health issues, because as you [Griffin] have mentioned, there are plenty of people that have mental illness that aren’t saying bigoted things,” the lawyer, 56, concluded.
Joy Behar chimed in to theorize that West is a “compulsive attention seeker.”
Ana Navarro, for her part, agreed with the panel’s points and reminded viewers that people have “tried to help [West] in the past,” but he does “not want to be helped [and] wants to continue being who he is.”
“We need to continue to call it out because it’s completely hate-filled awfulness, and I don’t care who you are, you don’t get away with it,” Haines added, ending the segment.
In response to the co-hosts’ comments, West’s rep, Milo Yiannopoulos, tells Page Six, “That $15 million ABC just had to pay Trump is going to look like peanuts if these daytime dunces keep bumping their gums,” referring to the network settling a defamation lawsuit with the president in December.
Ye sparked outrage last week when he went on an antisemitic rant on X, calling himself a Nazi and writing, “I love Hitler.”
Two days later, a commercial for his Yeezy aired during the 2025 Super Bowl and directed viewers to the fashion brand’s website, where only a $20 white T-shirt with a black swastika was up for sale.
West was dropped by his talent agent, Daniel McCartney, in the midst of the uproar.
The hip-hop superstar first made headlines for his antisemitic views in October 2022. A year later, he apologized for his “unintended outburst.”
In addition to taking hits to his professional career, West’s disturbing comments have also taken a toll on his marriage to Censori, whom Page Six confirmed Thursday has left him over the “unsurvivable” scandal.