The View mocked the Defeat the Mandates march that took place on the National Mall in Washington on Sunday, saying its speakers and premise were misinformed.

People from across the country gathered at the Washington Monument and walked to the Lincoln Memorial to participate in the march, which was part of an international demonstration against COVID-19-related restrictions.

Among those who spoke was Children's Health Defense founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The show's co-hosts criticized Kennedy for comparing present-day mandates to the Nazi oppression of Jews and claiming that mandates are stripping people of their rights.

"Even in Hitler's Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland," Kennedy said. "You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did. I visited in 1962 East Germany with my father and met people who had climbed the wall and escaped. So it was possible. Many people died doing it, but it was possible. Today, the mechanisms are being put in place that will make it so none of us can run, none of us can hide."

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg angrily criticized the comparison.

"How can anyone be this misinformed?" Goldberg said. "Not just about the vaccines and mandates but about history. How is it possible?"

The clip of Kennedy speaking aired on the show was cut short and did not include his claims about modern technology stripping people of constitutional rights and leaving little room for escape today.

"The minute they hand you that vaccine passport, every right that you have is transformed into a privilege contingent upon your obedience to arbitrary government dictates," Kennedy added. "It will make you a slave."

Co-host Ana Navarro mocked Kennedy, saying, "Every family has an idiot, and obviously the Kennedys are not immune to that," to which the co-hosts laughed.

"I find it incredibly offensive, though, that they keep referencing the Holocaust, which is such a unique time in history that should be respected as such," Navarro said.

The show's hosts also blasted Kennedy's claims of vaccine injury as a conspiracy. Co-host Joy Behar reminded those listening of how British Dr. Andrew Wakefield's findings of vaccine injury were discredited due to financial conflicts of interest and ethical misconduct.

"He basically lost his medical license," Behar said. "[People] hooked onto this lie and it became a movement."

Behar did not address other medical studies compiled by Kennedy's nonprofit group that implicate vaccines in various medical injuries.

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While speaking at the rally, Kennedy called out vaccine companies and the Food and Drug Administration for their lack of transparency.

"The Pfizer vaccine is the only vaccine that has a license," Kennedy said. "Until [the other vaccines] get that license, they do not have to produce their data. So the only data we really have that is reliable is the Pfizer data. And by the way, there are half a million pages of granular data, which Pfizer and the FDA have refused to produce because they say it is too burdensome. These are the data that they reviewed for 108 days, but they say they can't show it to us for 55 years."

When referencing Kennedy and those who support the anti-mandate movement, Behar called them "crazies" who wrongly oppose masks and vaccines as if they are being pursued by Nazis.

"It's so offensive to compare anything to the Holocaust," co-host Sunny Hostin said. "It's offensive to compare anything to the Middle Passage, to compare anything to slavery. I'm surprised actually that thousands of people showed up. The [organization] estimated 20,000 would attend, but thousands still did."

The organization behind the rally told the Washington Examiner that between 30,000 and 40,000 people showed up throughout the day.

"We went a long way in crushing the false narrative that this is all about anti-vax," the rally's founder, Trevor FG, told the Washington Examiner. "It's clearly not, as yesterday's speakers alluded to it's anti-mandate."

The National Park Service could not confirm how many people were in attendance.

"Due to the difficulty in accurately assessing crowd estimates for large events, the National Park Service no longer provides crowd estimates for permitted events," National Mall and Memorial Parks Chief of Communications Mike Litterst said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. "It is left to the discretion of event organizers to make a determination of their event attendance."

The rally organizers said more protests are expected.

"We are just getting started and have a surge of momentum, likely taking this effort to major cities across the country," Trevor FG said.

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The energy of those on the National Mall was puzzling to the show's hosts.

"In light of the fact that 860,000 Americans have died from COVID [for] anti-vaxxers to still exist, for the anti-mask folks to still exist it's just shocking," Hostin said.

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