{"id":24689,"date":"2026-05-25T00:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/girl-math-sunny-hostin-lies-about-the-cost-of-blm-damage-and-eggs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:39:20","slug":"girl-math-sunny-hostin-lies-about-the-cost-of-blm-damage-and-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/girl-math-sunny-hostin-lies-about-the-cost-of-blm-damage-and-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Math: Sunny Hostin Lies About the Cost of BLM Damage and Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ever since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2025\/12\/19\/view-went-all-2025-without-legal-note-they-were-needed\"><span class=\"s2\">abandoning<\/span><\/a> the use of formal &#8220;legal notes&#8221; last year, <i>The View<\/i>\u2019s lies have been getting more brazen and more outlandish. Take co-host Sunny Hostin, for example. On Thursday\u2019s episode, she ran up a mighty exorbitant tab with multiple falsehoods when it came to the cost of her beloved Black Lives Matter \u201cuprisings\u201d and the price for eggs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/2057480303631818897?s=20\"><span class=\"s2\">Hostin\u2019s revisionist history<\/span><\/a>, not much was damaged by the BLM riots of 2020. \u201cSo, I just want to make that part clear. They were very limited destruction of property and violence during&#8230; the Black Lives Matter uprisings,\u201d she scolded critics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sunny Hostin defends the deadly Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. She claims there was only &#8220;very limited destruction of property and violence.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8TWNsP2DEE\">pic.twitter.com\/8TWNsP2DEE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/2057480303631818897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">In reality, the damage the riots inflicted was extensive. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2020\/09\/16\/riots-cost-property-damage\"><span class=\"s2\">Axios reported at the time<\/span><\/a>, the damages cost between $1-2 billion and were the \u201cmost expensive in insurance history.\u201d They noted the cost eclipsed the previous record holder, 1992\u2019s Rodney King riots in L.A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In terms of the ultimate cost, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jemimamcevoy\/2020\/06\/08\/14-days-of-protests-19-dead\/?sh=7bad05ac4de4\"><span class=\"s2\">19 people died<\/span><\/a> during the riots. Many were killed by the rioters or while trying to allegedly commit other crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2026\/05\/21\/sunny-hostin-claims-blm-uprisings-didnt-destroy-much-eggs\">Hostin\u2019s girl math <\/a><\/span>also led her to outlandishly assert that the cost for a dozen eggs was \u201c$10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt doesn&#8217;t cost 99 cents to make lunch. It costs like $10 to buy eggs,\u201d she shouted in response to a soundbite of <i>Shark Tank<\/i>\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Leary saying young adults needed to bring their lunch to work to save money, instead of always eating out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.usda.gov\/mnreports\/ams_3725.pdf\"><span class=\"s2\">a recent USDA report<\/span><\/a>, the average price of eggs in America was $2.21 per dozen. Additionally, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/APU0000708111\"><span class=\"s2\">noted<\/span><\/a> the cost of eggs over the last 46 years topped out at $6.23 per dozen in early 2025 and had dropped off sharply since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The View had something of a BOGO sale on lying about costs this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sunny Hostin claims &#8220;it costs $10 to buy eggs&#8221; and calls Kevin O&#8217;Leary &#8220;out of touch&#8221; for saying young people just starting out spend too much on stupid stuff.<br \/>\nShe previously has bragged about paying someone to grocery shop for her since COVID. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AmDbfepwbq\">pic.twitter.com\/AmDbfepwbq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/2057491015297114237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hostin and co-host Joy Behar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2026\/05\/19\/behar-hostin-claim-trumprx-giving-people-tainted-deadly\"><span class=\"s2\">decried TrumpRX<\/span><\/a> and tried to scare people away from getting low-cost prescriptions via the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Behar made it seem as though the program was selling Trump-branded knock-off drugs and suggested they were going to kill everyone: \u201cAnd I like Mark Cuban. I&#8217;ve always liked him, but this is a mistake, and once Trump puts his name on prescriptions, we&#8217;re all going to die!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hostin would later back up Behar\u2019s smear that the drugs were unsafe, asserting, \u201cThere could be shortcuts involved.\u201d \u201cAnything he touches is tainted! I don\u2019t trust it!\u201d she shouted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ABC News co-host Joy Behar claims &#8220;we&#8217;re all going to die&#8221; because Trump wants to lower drug prices with TrumpRX. She even lashes out at Mark Cuban for getting involved.<br \/>\nShe shouts at her co-hosts who support lowering drug costs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wi3SNqU41J\">pic.twitter.com\/Wi3SNqU41J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/2056771847732031846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of course, they provided no evidence to support their claims. <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/personal-finance\/banking\/article\/trumprx-expands-discount-drug-offerings-what-consumers-should-know-153118576.html\"><span class=\"s2\">TrumpRX is a marketplace<\/span><\/a>, and the drugs were from their approved manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The View<\/i> is an ABC News program, by the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><i>Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/girl-math-sunny-hostin-lies-about-the-cost-of-blm-damage-and-eggs\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since abandoning the use of formal &#8220;legal notes&#8221; last year, The View\u2019s lies have been getting more brazen and more outlandish. Take co-host Sunny Hostin, for example. On Thursday\u2019s episode, she ran up a mighty exorbitant tab with multiple falsehoods when it came to the cost of her beloved Black Lives Matter \u201cuprisings\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}