The hosts of “The View” collectively cringed at Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to make a TikTok pun during a hearing this week, but they also got a pretty good laugh out of it on Thursday morning.
To start the day’s Hot Topics, the women talked about whether TikTok should be banned as it was passed by the House in a 352-65 vote, on Wednesday, but it's unclear how it will do in the Senate.
However, Nancy Pelosi pushed for the bill on Capitol Hill this week, stating, “This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It’s an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-tac-toe, a winner.”
To emphasize the joke, Pelosi even mimed drawing a diagonal line as if she’d won a game of tic-tac-toe. The hosts of “The View” couldn’t help but laugh after the clip was shown.
Sunny Hostin commented, “She’s good,” while Joy Behar simply groaned at the attempt.
“Sometimes, when older people are talking about this, we might wanna find other ways to go,” Whoopi said through her laughter. “Because that was quite funny. She’s really funny.”
Looking at the topic seriously, host Alyssa Farah Griffin admitted she agrees with Pelosi, earning some playful teasing from Hostin.
“When 352 lawmakers, left and right, come together and say ‘This is a bill that needs to be passed,’ Americans should listen. We don’t see a lot of bipartisanship,” Farah Griffin explained. “TikTok has been compared to digital fentanyl.“
You can watch the full segment from “The View” in the video above.
