The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin has said she opened a Trump Account for her newborn son, praising the current administration’s latest initiative aimed at addressing America’s falling birthrate.
President Donald Trump has been touting his Trump Accounts for months. “We’ll fund those personal accounts with a seed contribution of $1,000 which will compound and grow over the course of their lives,” he said in January at a U.S. Treasury event. While the tax-advantaged investment accounts aren’t set to launch until July 4, parents were able to sign up for them earlier this year when they filed their 2025 tax returns.
“I’m gonna preface it to say the fact that he puts his name on everything is just so cringe,” began Farah Griffin, 36, who returned to the ABC talk show last month after a two-month maternity leave, revealing that she “set up one of these Trump Accounts for my son when he was born.”
Explaining the details of the investment accounts, the former White House staffer said: “The government matches $1,000. And if you were to contribute $5,000 a year, which that’s the higher end that you would do [of] tax-deferred [income], Charles Schwab says that at 18, when your child has access to it, it [will have] about $100,000 or almost $200,000 in it.
“This is very similar to a 529 Account or a Roth IRA,” she added. A 529 plan is a state-sponsored, tax-advantaged investment account designed to save for future education costs, while a Roth IRA is an individual retirement account that allows investments to grow tax-free.
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“These are tangible impacts that can help people,” Farah Griffin acknowledged. “So my thing is like Trump gives us plenty to critique him on legitimately. This to me is not bad policy.”
Farah Griffin’s comments came after Trump announced Monday additional plans to make motherhood safer and more affordable, including a new fertility benefit option for employees that will be a “major help for millions of American moms that will result in more beautiful American babies.” He was joined by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Medicare and Medicaid administrator, who warned that the U.S. is facing a “fertility crisis,” but argued that once hospital services get “better and more affordable, we’ll have more Trump babies.”
Joy Behar chimed in, accusing the Trump administration of “this lie that they care about children.”
“They seem to care about white children,” she claimed. “But when they say more Trump babies, what does that mean?”
Reminding her co-hosts that Trump dismantled USAID — the agency responsible for administering foreign aid — which resulted in hundreds of thousands of children dying, Behar demanded: “So don’t tell me you care about children. You only care about these children, that you call Trump children.”
Farah Griffin pushed back against Behar’s claims, clarifying that Trump Accounts are “accessible to any American.”
“My child is not a Trump child,” she insisted. “It’s accessible to anybody who wants to sign up for it.”
Farah Griffin and her husband, Justin, welcomed their first child together in February. “He’s the most beautiful little boy I’ve ever seen,” she said in a statement at the time.
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