‘Watch’ hosts slam Maine Senate candidate for revealing Nazi-style tattoo

All the women of ABC’s “The View” slammed Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner on Thursday. Revealing his Nazi-style tattoo earlier this week.

“I mean, doesn’t anyone realize that if you’re going to run for office, your stuff will come out?” asked co-host Whoopi Goldberg. “So maybe you want to bring it up before everyone else, because now it feels like you’re making excuses. And it seems like everyone has a past now.”

Co-host Sarah Haynes said that Platner’s tattoo appears with him Controversial old Reddit postwill raise many concerns for ordinary Americans.

“While everyone has a past, not everyone can get away with an accidental anti-Semitic or racist tattoo on spring break while drinking,” Haynes said. “You know, the level of what you’re bringing up isn’t just a whoopsie. So I say there’s only so many fish in the sea. In fact, there’s 1.5 million people in Maine. I’m sure they can find someone now.”

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The co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” all agreed that Graham Platner’s tattoo scandal was “too much.” (Lou Rocco/Getty Images)

“There are 340 million people in this country. They can’t be found without Nazi tattoos?” co-host Joy Behar added.

Co-host Sunny Hostin noted that many Democrats were defending Plattner in his efforts to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine but agreed with Haynes that his past behavior warranted more action than just saying “oops.”

“When you get to the point where you deny you’re a Nazi on a podcast, I think it’s over. And so, it’s over,” Hostin said.

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Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin praised the group for holding Platner responsible for Nazi imagery to the extent that he would be the Republican nominee.

“There has to be a standard of conduct for elected officials in this country. There was a time when you wanted moral superiority in your leaders. So if you’re a Nazi on the right or the left, you have no business in public life. Step aside for someone else who can run for that seat,” Griffin said.

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Maine, points to a covered tattoo of what was once identified as a Nazi symbol during an interview Wednesday in Portland, Me. (AP via WGME)

The group also agreed that Plattner’s tattoo was “too much” of a scandal to support, despite claiming he was drunk when he received it.

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“Listen, I’m just saying that I can’t tell you that I didn’t do stupid things when I was drunk, but what I can tell you is that I know that I drank and did stupid things and I took responsibility for it and I’m saying that before it’s exposed by other people. And don’t think that I don’t think Goldberg said that I was looking for something.”

Fox News Digital Plattner’s campaign was reached for comment.

On Monday, Plattner’s campaign shared a video with the “Pod Save America” ​​podcast showing Plattner with a skull tattoo on his chest that resembles the “Totenkopf,” the symbol of the SS or Schutzstaffel under Adolf Hitler.

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, D-Maine, speaks at a town hall at the Franco Center on October 15, 2025 in Lewiston, MI. (Libby Kenney/Sun Journal via AP)

Plattner said he got the tattoo in a Croatian parlor in 2007 after getting “too drunk” with a fellow Marine. He insisted that the skull and crossbones was a “pretty standard military thing” and got the tattoo before joining the army and getting a security clearance.

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Plattner also came under fire last week after his Reddit posts from 2018 resurfaced. In one post, he wrote that “all” police are “bastards” and called himself “communist”.

In a separate post, he argued that if people “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they should read a little history.”