ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin made headlines last week after The View returned from their Fourth of July break and went off on how much she hated the American flag and how it made her feel “unsafe.” Then, on Monday’s edition of their Behind the Table podcast, Hostin doubled down. She seemingly equated it to seeing the Confederate flag, claimed it was white supremacy, while at the same time she tried to defend herself by arguing that she had an American flag keychain and a flag inside her house.
Podcast host and The View’s executive producer Brian Teta and Hostin seemed surprised that there was so much outrage and negative reaction to her flag bashing since she had said it on the show in the past:
TETA: Something you said last week on the show got a lot of attention, what else is new. But it was about the American flag. And this is something that you’ve said before more than once, but a conversation you talked about it.(…)HOSTIN: It’s surprising to me that that’s, it’s a thing.
Hostin says that any community with American flags is automatically racist:”…when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there’s a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate… pic.twitter.com/SMnicvTrCd— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 6, 2026
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