“If he does good—if he gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will wear a MAGA hat for one day on the show and say, ‘Thank you for doing it.’”
After President Donald Trump was elected, The View's Alyssa Farah Griffin promised that she would wear a MAGA hat on the show—and thank him— if he was able to get Hamas to release the remaining hostages out. Now that Trump has done just that, we must ask: will she keep her promise?
Last December, when Trump secured the presidency but had not yet taken office, Griffin and her co-hosts spoke about how to discuss Trump during his coming presidency. “My point when I say I’m not going to be apocalyptic," she said, "it’s not changing a tune. It’s not making every single thing a five-alarm fire. If he does good—if he gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will wear a MAGA hat for one day on the show and say, ‘Thank you for doing it.'"
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“She’ll knock it off my head,” Griffin joked. “You have to be able to cheer for wins when they happen and call out relentlessly the wrongdoing.” Griffin was an advisor to Trump during his first administration, in the area of strategic communications. She resigned in December 2020. She has since become a vocal critic of the president.
Fast forward to October 13, 2025, when Trump secured the release of all remaining and the remains of those killed hostages killed in captivity. Trump and Middle East leaders have also signed a peace deal that will carry the plan forward, with Trump promising that the peace deal will "hold up" as well.
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