Time To Pay Up, Kid: Scott Presler Calls Out Alyssa Farah Griffin On Her Pledge To Wear A MAGA Hat

Posted • January 16, 2025: Let's take a little trip in the Wayback Machine, Twitchy readers. The year was 1979. Thousands of miles away, the Iranian Revolution took place, installing radical Islamists led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in power and ousting the monarchy of Mohammad Reza Shah. Part of that revolution, as everyone of 'an age' remembers, included kidnapping 52 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and holding them hostage for 444 days. Then President Jimmy Carter floundered during the crisis. It was the final nail in the coffin of his failed administration. He and his team (including Mikla Brzezinski's father) staged one failed rescue attempt, botched a second planned attempt, and basically accomplished nothing to resolve the situation during his final year in office. But when Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election, the hostages were all freed minutes after he delivered his inaugural address on January 20, 1981. If this sounds eerily familiar, let's fast-forward back to the present.

Yesterday, Twitchy reported that a hostage deal had been brokered between Israel and Hamas, coincidentally just days before Donald Trump is set to be sworn in. Joe Biden can try to take credit for it, but everyone knows who is responsible for this deal. It was the same man who promised 'All Hell To Pay' for the terrorists and the regimes who support them if the hostages were not set free by Inauguration Day. All of this brings us to Alyssa Farah Griffin of The View, who recently made an interesting pledge on her show if Trump managed to free the hostages as he promised. She may have forgotten her own words (in fact, she almost certainly has), but Scott Presler was more than happy to remind her last night. With video. -- ThePersistence @ScottPresler: “Dear Alyssa Farah Griffin, You said on The View that “if he [President Trump] does good — if he gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will wear a MAGA hat for 1 day on this show & say thank you for doing it.” We look forward to the safe return of the hostages. ✌️”

Whoops. Time to put your hat on, Alyssa. We just know you will look GREAT in red. https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/GhXSEqxWcAA8aCV.mp4 -- Presler always brings the most wonderful receipts. Hold them to their promises. Indeed. And what a great moment it would be. The only problem is that we're sure Griffin and the rest of the brain trust on The View will flat-out refuse to give credit to the man who deserves it. Something tells me The View will credit Joe Biden. Biden doesn't even know the NAME of the terrorist group holding hostages. It's true. He called Hamas Hezbollah in his announcement of the deal yesterday. But that won't stop the ladies on The View from fawning over him. Never mind the fact that Bibi Netanyahu himself went on Twitter to thank Trump. -- Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke this evening with US President-elect Donald Trump and thanked him for his assistance in advancing the release of the hostages and for helping Israel bring an end to the suffering of dozens of hostages and their families.”

No one in their right mind thinks Biden (or even Secretary of State Antony Blinken) had anything to do with this. (…)

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