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‘West Wing’ actor Bradley Whitford says his WWII dad was ‘Antifa’ on ‘The View’

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Actor Bradley Whitford joined “The View” co-hosts on Wednesday and agreed with co-host Joy Behar, saying his father, who fought in World War II at a time when fascism was on the rise, was “Antifa.”

“I live in a world where there are community camps, where people are jumping out of vans and people who are going through the legal asylum process are being taken away without charges. And what makes me so sad right now is we’re giving these concentration camps funny names. It’s like it’s kind of funny that it’s all inhumane. It’s a very strange time for me,” Whitford said.

Behar agreed and called the situation “a disgrace.”

“It’s a shameful situation. My father, I thought about my father a lot. He died a long time ago. He was over 100 years old, 110. He fought in World War II, when fascism was on the rise. He was on a minesweeper that was hit by torpedoes,” he said.

Actor Bradley Whitford appears on ABC’s “The View” on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. (ABC/TheView)

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Behar interjected and said, “That was Antifa.”

“That was Antifa,” Whitford said. “Yes, yes.”

Antifa is a far-left militant movement that bills itself as an “antifascist” activist group and frequently mobilizes during high-profile protests and riots, such as the successive nights of national violence at the height of the 2020 uprisings.

Trump officially designated Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” in September, arguing that the left-wing activist group posed a direct threat to the US government, law enforcement and the rule of law.

“The View” co-host Joy Behar speaks on ABC News on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (ABC/TheView)

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“Additionally, my father wasn’t an overly political person. He worked for an insurance company in Madison, Wisconsin, but in his spare time he was the president of Planned Parenthood in Dane County. He wasn’t remotely political. It was because he had daughters and he loved his wife and… women needed access to health care that they didn’t have,” the actor continued.

Whitford later ruled in Roe v. He brought up the Dobbs decision, which overturned the Wade case, and said there were “64,000 pregnant rape victims” living in states without access to abortion care.

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