Star Jones appeared eager to join in on a discussion about politics when she returned to The View this week.

Jones, one of the popular ABC daytime talk show’s original hosts when it premiered in the late ’90s, joined current hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin on the show on Wednesday, Feb. 5.

Goldberg introduced a discussion about Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that the U.S. might “take over” Gaza and transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” by playing clips from the president’s Feb. 4 press conference with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The show then played a few audio clips of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle reacting in disbelief to the idea.

After observing that Netanyahu looked like he might have been the most surprised of everyone to hear about Trump’s plans, Goldberg opened the discussion with a general query. “I guess I’m asking the table the same question, really, every day. What is going on here?”

Farah Griffin weighed in first, explaining that she thought Trump’s comments were “fake news” when she initially heard about the “horrible idea.” She then explained the three ways that she interprets “Trump bluster.”

“Is he just saying it to distract from other things in the news cycle, so we all go crazy? Very possible. Is he just always a real estate developer who just sees things as dollar signs?” Farah Griffin wondered. “Or third, which could be all of the above, is he simply starting with the most extreme version of a deal so that what he ultimately does in Gaza seems less crazy than the U.S. taking it over.”

Haines then mentioned a claim Trump made that those who knew about his plan for Gaza before he brought it up during the press conference “thought it was a good idea.”

“He only surrounded himself with ‘yes’ people because he didn’t want to know if it was a bad idea,” Haines said, adding that the Americans who voted for Trump “are not gonna like this.”

“This is not MAGA,” Haines said. “MAGA is more isolationist.”

Hostin spoke up next as she declared that Trump “has no legal authority to do what he proposed.”

“He’s gonna get the resistance, of course, from the United States, but also resistance from Palestinians and the regional Arab countries,” Hostin said.

Jones was the last one at the table to share her thoughts on the matter. She began by noting that the U.S. is only 16 days into Trump’s second term in the White House.

“It’s just typical of him to throw a bunch of cray cray up against the wall so that it distracts you from what’s really going on, and [from] the federal employees that are scared, that don’t know if they’re going to have a job, if they’re going to have their retirement, and civil rights being diminished, and human rights being diminished,” Jones said.

The TV personality then alleged that media outlets are “playing into it.”

“You’re allowing foolishness to distract us from facts and what is going on,” Jones said.