There&#8217;s a perspective that has broken out into the open on both the horseshoe theory Left and the horseshoe theory Right — that America sucks, that America has always sucked, and that there has always been something wrong with the United States.
And that wrongness continues today.
There&#8217;s a lot of crossover in these two wings of American politics, but perhaps the most clear exemplar of this philosophy comes in the form of Whoopi Goldberg, who represents a sort of pixilated version of this philosophy, a dumbed-down version of this philosophy.
Wednesday, on ABC’s “The View” ( a repository of nearly all human stupidity), she decided she was going to sound off about the Israel-Iran war. Goldberg, of course, is a believer that Iran is not all that bad, that they can be negotiated with, that there was never anything wrong with Iran, that America has similar problems, and who are we to judge?
She decided to talk about how being a woman in Iran — which can mean being beaten for not wearing the proper head covering, not being able to work at a job they worked at before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 — is the same as being black in America in 2025.
That’s an astonishingly stupid claim. It’s absurd. 
Whoopi Goldberg is sitting there on the set of a nationally televised show, being paid millions of dollars after having been once an actress a long time ago, saying that being black in America is akin to being a woman in Iran, or a gay person in Iran —where gay people in Iran are hanged from cranes.
Whoopi Goldberg is feted for saying unbelievably low IQ, stupid things on a nationally televised show every single day. But apparently, that lack of perspective has become indicative of a broader trend in American life, which is to just whine about America, to crap on America.
It&#8217;s not relegated to Whoopi Goldberg. Barack Obama did this for a large part of his career as well, suggesting in 2008 that America always had great ideals, we just hadn&#8217;t lived up to them. That was the unifying part. And then, after he won, it turned into America kind of sucks, has kind of always sucked.
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And now it turns out, according to Barack Obama, America sucks even more than usual.
He did an interview with The New York Times in which he suggested that we are drifting into something that is not consistent with American democracy; it&#8217;s consistent with autocracies. It&#8217;s consistent with Hungary under Viktor Orban.
First of all, we should point out that there are, in fact, elections in Orban&#8217;s Hungary. But beyond that, Barack Obama complaining about the twisting of the institutions of the United States against democracy is garbage.
Barack Obama doesn&#8217;t really get to talk about this, considering the fact that he used the federal government to threaten private industry very early on in his administration, that he used every aspect of his government in order to crack down on political opposition up to and including the IRS. 
During his tenure, Obama ran down America fairly routinely. He understood that Americans didn&#8217;t like that very much. In “Dreams from My Father,” his first book, he wrote:
I know, I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago&#8217;s South Side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair. I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder &#8211; alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware &#8211; is inadequate to the task.
Notice the tacit endorsement of the idea that black people living in the South Side of Chicago is the same thing as impoverished children living on the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia, or Nairobi. That is an absurd contention.
But that sort of moral relativism — that runs throughout a large part of the Left that suggests that America is historically bad — remains bad today. A hallmark of the Left throughout the Cold War era was that there was really no difference between the United States and the Soviet Union. In fact, at least the Soviet Union was shooting for some form of equality. The United States was an unequal, terrible society.
This is an argument that was made by the Left. It is also an argument increasingly made by a sort of horseshoe theory Right, which suggests that America is bad today and it&#8217;s bad for a wide variety of reasons, but it was bad historically in the past as well.
When Donald Trump says, “Make America Great Again,” there are two reasons that his rhetoric resonates with so many Americans. One is that when Americans hear “Make America Great Again,” what they believe is that there are American principles that are fundamentally great, and we have to do a better job living up to them and implementing them. What makes America great, for example, is, say, the Constitution of the United States and its ideals; what makes America great are our principles of limited government, private property, free speech, and traditional values. That combination, that stew of Anglo-American ideals and applied uniquely in the United States, that&#8217;s what made America great. We need to get back to that. That&#8217;s what they hear when they hear Make America Great.
The other way of hearing it is we think of great moments in American history, and we say we want to be great like we were at that moment. Not that America was “greater” in 1960, when segregation was still on the books in the South, or that America was “greater” in the 1850s, when slavery was still practiced across half the country, but that there are moments in American history in which we have lived up to our great ideals, and we should make America great again like that.
We should have, for example, a unity of purpose as we did during World War II. We should, for example, have an industrialized economy that is forward-thinking and forward-looking the way that we did in, say, the 1950s.
There&#8217;s an idea that we have in our head when we say, “Make America Great Again.” And that&#8217;s what President Trump is calling upon and appealing to.
But there&#8217;s a part of the Right that really believes that America was never great, in the same way that the Left agrees that America was never great. They believe, for example, that the expansion across the West in the early days of America was imperialist and colonialist in the same way that the Left claims that America is imperialist and colonialist.
There&#8217;s a part of the Right that believes, like a part of the Left, that the Civil War was wrongly fought, that it would have been better if the South had been allowed to keep slaves, because, after all, an overweening federal government means broader federal power.
There&#8217;s a part of the Right that believes, like a part of the Left, that the Gilded Age, in which American industry began to really grow in America, became a world power economically, was bad and exploitative.
And it believes that the United States was bad in World War I, or that the United States was evil in World War II for dropping the A-bomb at the end of World War II, or that the United States was terrible during the Cold War because we opposed the communists too strenuously, and we&#8217;ve been corrupted from the inside by globalists.
There is this part of the Right that believes, like the Left, that there is something fundamentally wrong with America and it&#8217;s been wrong for generations; that the post-Cold War era was characterized by American evil, that America is a bad force in the world. 
There are many problems with this perspective. The first and foremost of which is that it is historically wrong.
America is the greatest force for human freedom in the history of the world. There is not really a close second. America is the greatest force for human prosperity in the history of the world. There really is not a close second.
Why is this important? Because if you cannot define what makes America great or what made America great, if you are in the moral relativist category of suggesting, for example, that America is akin to Russia, you know, both countries kill people, the sort of Michael Corleone cynical perspective in “The Godfather” when he says to Kay, “Senators have people killed, too,” which is a really puerile perspective. I know people like to cite the Michael Corleone speech to Kay as though there&#8217;s a sort of a world-weary explanation of American politics: “American senators have people killed just like dictators.”
No, they don&#8217;t. I know America. Do you think that senators in the United States have the capacity to have people murdered willy-nilly the way that Vladimir Putin, for example, shoves people off of buildings in Russia? If you think that, it’s because you are being deliberately obtuse or morally relativistic or both.
Why does this matter?
Because if you don&#8217;t know what America is about and what makes America great, how do you defend it? What are the principles that you are seeking to defend?
If you don&#8217;t like America at all, what are you defending America from? One of the signal features of the West for generations has been this self-loathing that has taken root in large parts of the Left and certain corners of the Right, the self-loathing that says that the West ought not defend itself in any way, shape or form, and we can&#8217;t defend ourselves because there&#8217;s something deeply, spiritually wrong with us.
It&#8217;s garbage. America has always been worth defending. The country that gave the world the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is still the greatest country in the history of the world. 
Period.

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Whoopi Goldberg took a wave of backlash after she used her platform on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; to claim that black Americans — even in the year 2025 — were no better off than Iranian citizens living under the brutal and oppressive Islamist government.
Goldberg and cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-goes-sideways-when-two-cohosts-claim-black-americans-are-worse-off-than-iranians">squared off</a> on the topic during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast, when Griffin correctly pointed out the fact that an Iranian woman would likely be arrested — or worse — for stepping foot outside wearing even the relatively modest outfit she had on at the time. &#8220;I can’t have my hair showing, I can’t wear a skirt, I can’t have my arms out,&#8221; she said.
Goldberg apparently objected to the idea that Iranians were more oppressed than black Americans, and said, &#8220;Listen, here’s the thing — let’s not do the — let’s not do that, because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car.&#8221;
“I’m sorry, but where the Iranian regime is today is nothing compared to the United States,” Griffin interjected, again correctly.
&#8220;They used to just keep hanging black people!&#8221; Goldberg exclaimed, and continued to press the point.
But much like their reaction when Goldberg claimed that the Holocaust was &#8220;not about race,&#8221; critics quickly made it clear that they were not buying her assertions.
Guy Benson drove the point home during an appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom,&#8221; saying at first, &#8220;I call that show a daily national televised insane asylum for a reason.&#8221;
WATCH:
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🔥TORCHED: <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@guypbenson</a> just DECIMATED Whoopi Goldberg &amp; &#8220;The View&#8221; for their &#8220;moral idiocy.&#8221;
&#8220;I call that show a daily national televised insane asylum for a reason&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Our government PROSECUTES hate crimes. They don&#8217;t commit them&#8230;!&#8221;
&#8220;Whoopi Goldberg&#8230;is one of the most… <a href="https://t.co/T4cRg9tVMy">pic.twitter.com/T4cRg9tVMy</a>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to overstate the moral idiocy of what we just heard there,&#8221; he said, marking Goldberg as the prime source of that. &#8220;Alyssa Farah is making the point correctly about how people are subjugated brutally by the Iranian regime and Whoopi&#8217;s like, &#8216;Oh, look at what we do here in the U.S. There are hate crimes here.'&#8221;
&#8220;Our government prosecutes hate crimes,&#8221; Benson added. &#8220;They don&#8217;t commit them as a matter of course. For her to say, &#8216;Oh, well, if you&#8217;re black in the United States in 2025, it&#8217;s basically the same as being a dissident or anyone in Iran, that is deeply, deeply ignorant.&#8221;
&#8220;Hi Whoopi Goldberg!&#8221; another posted. &#8220;You say your life is just a brutal as Iranian women. Meet Nika Shakarami. After the IRGC kiIIed Mahsa Amini, the 16-year-old burned her scarf in protest and vanished. The IRGC delivered her corpse to her parents — who only identified her by her birthmark.&#8221;
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Hi Whoopi Goldberg!
You say your life is just a brutal as Iranian women.
Meet Nika Shakarami.
After the IRGC kiIIed Mahsa Amini, the 16-year-old burned her scarf in protest and vanished.
The IRGC delivered her corpse to her parents — who only identified her by her birthmark. <a href="https://t.co/A5LwwtWuqv">pic.twitter.com/A5LwwtWuqv</a>
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) <a href="https://twitter.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1935432160045056288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Whoopie Goldberg believes black women in America are more oppressed than women living under the Islamic Regime… Whoopie can freely travel without the consent of a male relative, show her hair, sing, dance, and express her unfiltered s****y opinions on TV without being arrested… Meanwhile Iranian women are kidnapped, raped, and beaten for simply showing their hair… Whoopie is a &#8216;useful idiot,'&#8221; another added.
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Whoopie Goldberg believes black women in America are more oppressed than women living under the Islamic Regime…
Whoopie can freely travel without the consent of a male relative, show her hair, sing, dance, and express her unfiltered shitty opinions on TV without being… <a href="https://t.co/iHS88Z5E0b">pic.twitter.com/iHS88Z5E0b</a>
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) <a href="https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1935405502059725113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) weighed in as well, saying, &#8220;If America were anything like Iran as she suggests, Whoopi Goldberg would be punished for the way she bashes our country. But because she lives in America, she has the freedom to say idiotic things on TV everyday. That’s the beauty of our country.&#8221;
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If America were anything like Iran as she suggests, Whoopi Goldberg would be punished for the way she bashes our country.
But because she lives in America, she has the freedom to say idiotic things on TV everyday.
That’s the beauty of our country. <a href="https://t.co/lTFYqyTqvw">https://t.co/lTFYqyTqvw</a>
— Congressman Jeff Van Drew (@Congressman_JVD) <a href="https://twitter.com/Congressman_JVD/status/1935414121194750410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘Moral Idiocy’: Whoopi Goldberg Trashed After Claiming Black Americans Worse Off Than Iranians

'Moral Idiocy': Whoopi Goldberg Trashed After Claiming Black Americans Worse Off Than Iranians

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&#8220;The View&#8221; hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin claimed on Wednesday that black people in America were worse off than people living under Iran&#8217;s oppressive regime, a claim that was immediately challenged by others at the table.
During a broader conversation about the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, Hostin claimed that Israel&#8217;s strike on Iran had not been legal. Goldberg argued that the legality of Israel&#8217;s actions should be decided by international bodies like the United Nations. But when cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin suggested that they should consider the possibility that Iran was a bad actor, the whole conversation quickly went off the rails.
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Whoopi and Sunny say it&#8217;s worse to be black in America today than to live in Iran today. Whoopi shouts down Alyssa Farah Griffin for noting that Iran kills gay people because America is a terrible country. Alyssa stand up to her in a big way:
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&#8220;Let’s just remember too, the Iranians literally throw gay people off of buildings, they don’t adhere to basic human rights,” Alyssa Farah Griffin began.
&#8220;Listen, here&#8217;s the thing — let’s not do the — let&#8217;s not do that, because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car,&#8221; Goldberg objected.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, but where the Iranian regime is today is nothing compared to the United States,&#8221; said Griffin.
&#8220;They used to just keep hanging black people!&#8221; Goldberg added.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not even the same,&#8221; Griffin repeated.
&#8220;Oh no! Oh, wait, wait, wait! That&#8217;s not what you mean to say! It is the same,&#8221; Goldberg declared.
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not. The year 2025 in the United States is nothing like if stepped foot were this outfit in Tehran right now,&#8221; Griffin continued. &#8220;I can&#8217;t have my hair showing, I can&#8217;t wear a skirt, I can&#8217;t have my arms out.&#8221;
Everyone began talking at once, and Goldberg eventually broke through. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I am saying that it is the same. Murdering someone for their differences not good whoever does it. It&#8217;s not good. So that&#8217;s why I said you weren&#8217;t saying — what I heard was not what you meant.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran,&#8221; Griffin did not back down.
&#8220;Not if you&#8217;re black,&#8221; Goldberg claimed.
&#8220;Not for everybody,&#8221; Hostin agreed.
&#8220;Not if you&#8217;re black,&#8221; Goldberg said again.
&#8220;Guys, don&#8217;t go to Tehran. No one at this table should go to Tehran,&#8221; Griffin insisted. &#8220;There are places much darker than this country.&#8221;
&#8220;Not everybody feels that way! Not everybody feels that way!&#8221; Goldberg said.

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‘The View’ Goes Sideways When Two Cohosts Claim Black Americans Are Worse Off Than Iranians

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Sunny Hostin claimed during a Monday broadcast that President Donald Trump was &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the U.S. Army National Guard when he deployed troops to quell the violent protests in Los Angeles, arguing that by doing so, he would ultimately set the stage for a &#8220;civil war.&#8221;
Hostin discussed the ongoing protests in Los Angeles — as well as the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to protect federal agents as the protests got more and more violent — with her fellow cohosts on the ABC midday talk show, and they complained that Trump&#8217;s plan to deport criminal illegal aliens was the real problem.
&#8220;The Defense Department has the U.S. Marines on high alert right now,&#8221; cohost Whoopi Goldberg began in mocking tones. &#8220;Now, you know, is it warranted or does this sort of escalate the situation? I mean, whatever happened to state&#8217;s rights?&#8221;
&#8220;I thought that what&#8217;s you do, &#8217;cause you tell the state that this is what you&#8217;re thinking, you know, you don&#8217;t just send people in, you don&#8217;t just send troops in,&#8221; Goldberg claimed. &#8220;But what do I know, I&#8217;ve never run a state? But I don&#8217;t really — when you come in and everyone is — when you go into the doughnut shop to look for people and you&#8217;re dressed in tactical gear, you&#8217;re creating an issue. You&#8217;re creating a problem.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin decries Trump &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the National Guard and claims he&#8217;s going to have them start a &#8220;Civil War.&#8221; 
Ignoring the riots and violence, she claims the Guard is there &#8220;for the purpose of policing Americans&#8217; protest activity, our freedom of speech, our freedom of… <a href="https://t.co/3vEWwMIKSf">pic.twitter.com/3vEWwMIKSf</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1932104165712339004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin jumped in then, claiming that Trump was &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the National Guard — despite its existence as a state-based military force since 1636 and being attached to the United States Army officially in 1933 — by sending troops to keep the peace after protesters attacked ICE agents and their vehicles.
&#8220;I think what really matters from sort of a long view here is the fact that he is militarizing and deploying the Guard for the purpose of policing Americans&#8217; protest activity, our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly,&#8221; Hostin insisted, suggesting that the National Guard had been brought in to silence the protesters rather than to keep them from damaging more property and hurting people.
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Hostin went on to argue that &#8220;an army turned inside&#8221; to police the citizens within the country would ultimately result in &#8220;chaos and fascism.&#8221;
&#8220;And civil war,&#8221; she agreed as Goldberg prompted her. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s the way we need to look at it because deploying the National Guard is supposed to be a last resort.&#8221;
Hostin then claimed that Trump had promised to deploy the National Guard anywhere in the country that protests occurred. What Trump has actually said, on a number of occasions, was that the federal government would step in and shut down violent riots if and when it became apparent that local authorities — in this case, Mayor Karen Bass (D-LA) and Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) — were either unable or unwilling to do so.

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Whoopi Goldberg came unglued during Thursday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC, claiming even after living through all eight years of former President Barack Obama’s time in office, people keep telling her America “can’t elect a black man.”
Goldberg made the comment while complaining about the fact that, at least in her mind, Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) was not getting the kind of national buzz that she thought he deserved.
She began by claiming that she herself was so independent politically that even the term “independent” did not go far enough to describe her.
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What century is Whoopi Goldberg living in? Whoopi whines that no one is taking Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) seriously for president because, &quot;You can&#39;t elect a black man.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/E8aanz7Qln">pic.twitter.com/E8aanz7Qln</a>
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Sunny Hostin began the conversation, saying that Goldberg, to her knowledge, had “been independent for a while.”
&#8220;There’s no name for what I am,” Goldberg replied, prompting laughter from the audience as she went on to explain her point further. “There’s no name. Because there are some things that fit what I want and some things that don’t. And I am the crazy person who said, ‘Why don’t we have a Democratic president and a Republican vice president?’”
Her cohosts recalled that she had, in fact, suggested that arrangement in the past.
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“I believe that the only way to get stuff done is to have both parties represented at the same time — and people keep telling me I’m crazy,” she continued.
Goldberg went on to mention Moore, calling him a “perfect candidate” — and cohost Sara Haines agreed, interjecting, “I love Wes Moore.”
“But people are saying, ‘You can’t elect a black man,’” Goldberg complained, asking, “Why not?”
Her cohosts pointed out that the United States had elected a black man — former President Obama — twice, and while Goldberg conceded the point, she claimed that had done nothing to deter the people who continued to tell her that such a thing could not be done.

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Whoopi Comes Unglued, Says People Keep Telling Her ‘You Can’t Elect A Black Man’ In America

Whoopi Comes Unglued, Says People Keep Telling Her 'You Can't Elect A Black Man’ In America

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In a moment that recalled former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s frustrated exclamation during the Benghazi hearings, &#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at everyone who has been questioning former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive and physical fitness for the job he held until January 20.
&#8220;Why is this important to know now?&#8221; she demanded to know during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast — the same day that &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; the book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s obvious decline, hit bookstores everywhere.
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Whoopi decries the American people learning Democrats lied to them about Biden&#8217;s health: 
&#8220;Why is this important to know now?!&#8221; 
Joy Behar tries to distract from the fact she and the cast took part in the coverup by manically ranting about &#8220;Trump&#8217;s atrocities.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/VLhiOV2Oa7">pic.twitter.com/VLhiOV2Oa7</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924847259490943363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Golberg began by attacking the authors&#8217; reliance on &#8220;anonymous sources&#8221; to write the book — and wondered why those people, if they were willing to provide such damning information after the fact, had not been willing to speak up earlier.
&#8220;But my question is, why is this important to know now?&#8221; Goldberg asked — sounding much like Clinton, who during the Benghazi hearings had asked, &#8220;What difference, at this point, does it make?&#8221;
&#8220;It just seems to me, you know, we got a lot of stuff to be concerned about at the moment,&#8221; she continued, suggesting that it no longer mattered that Biden&#8217;s decline was hidden from the American people even thought many of the people responsible for hiding it were still in positions of influence and power.
Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back on the rest of her cohosts, saying that if they wanted to claim they were supportive of a free press, they couldn&#8217;t attack the press when it reported things they didn&#8217;t like.
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Sara Haines actually acknowledges the audio of Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden where he forgets major moments of his life. 
Whoopi defends, arguing that sure he&#8217;s &#8220;83 and &#8220;a little stumbly, a little rumbly&#8221; but &#8220;I can&#8217;t point to anything that he&#8217;s done as president [that&#8217;s evidence of… <a href="https://t.co/mkLQ6aa8j0">pic.twitter.com/mkLQ6aa8j0</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924853941956673744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines mentioned the recently-released audio from former Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden, acknowledging how damaging that was to Biden — but Goldberg pushed back and dismissed Biden&#8217;s failure to recall important events as him being just &#8220;a little stumble, a little rumbly.&#8221;

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; complained during Monday&#8217;s broadcast about former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis and people who might bring politics into it — immediately after which they injected their own politics by trying to make it about President Donald Trump.
Whoopi Goldberg started the ball rolling, reacting on the show to the news that Biden — who had just appeared on the show a little over a week earlier — had been diagnosed with an advanced and &#8220;aggressive form&#8221; of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.
Goldberg laughed off claims that there was any cover-up regarding Biden&#8217;s health or cognitive fitness, and then used a clip from his recent appearance — where former First Lady Jill Biden had been forced to step in and help him answer a question — as proof that he was fine.
She then complained that the new revelation regarding his cancer diagnosis would only &#8220;add fuel to the fire&#8221; for those who already believed that the Bidens had not been telling the truth about his condition. Her assessment was that it was time for everyone to simply &#8220;put politics aside.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin makes Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis about Trump: 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics. But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research&#8230;cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think… <a href="https://t.co/EfcosBBvBN">pic.twitter.com/EfcosBBvBN</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924508534714061167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin started off in agreement with Goldberg, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics.&#8221;
She then immediately pivoted to make it political — and use it to attack President Donald Trump — adding, &#8220;But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research &#8230; cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think that&#8217;s so despicable and so disdainful.&#8221;
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin brought the topic back around to Biden, saying that there was a way to have the conversation without making it solely about the politics, arguing that the latter would not be &#8220;helpful to anyone.&#8221;
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Goldberg claims &#8220;there&#8217;s no way&#8221; Biden had cancer during his presidency and hid it from the voters: 
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was… <a href="https://t.co/S0Egee6YbR">pic.twitter.com/S0Egee6YbR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924512513980354828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg jumped back in to insist it was impossible for Biden to have had cancer while he was president because he would not have been able to hide the treatments from the public.
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was carrying around or that he was hiding,&#8221; she said.

‘The View’ Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

'The View' Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden's Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; complained about President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Americans — but as Whoopi Goldberg laid out her objections, it appeared as though her main objection was the fact that Trump was doing what Democrats had not been able to do thus far.
Goldberg started off the conversation during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast by asserting that Trump&#8217;s plan was bad because he had not yet specified which drugs he was talking about, nor had he explained which health insurance plans might be impacted by any new policies.
&#8220;Well, again, he didn&#8217;t specify which drugs he was going to target — or which insurance programs would be impacted,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;Because you see, if you&#8217;re going to lower the price of the drugs, you gotta first fix the broken insurance company,&#8221; Goldberg laughed. &#8220;Because they are — it doesn&#8217;t make any sense.&#8221;
&#8220;You know what though, I would think that you have to take money out of politics, too, because a lot of these guys in Congress, don&#8217;t they take money from pharmaceutical lobbyists?&#8221; Joy Behar asked. &#8220;I mean —&#8221;
&#8220;But there are lobbyists in other countries, too,&#8221; cohost Sara Haines pushed back.
Behar pivoted then to attack Trump&#8217;s appearance and weight, saying, &#8220;The guy has 153 rooms in the White House. He can&#8217;t have one mirror to look into? He&#8217;s always criticizing, &#8216;This one&#8217;s not a 10, this one&#8217;s a six, this one&#8217;s fat, this one&#8217;s — he said the friend is &#8216;highly neurotic.&#8217; Hello? Look in the mirror &#8230;&#8221;
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Alyssa Farah Griffin bursts their bubble by pointing out that some of their favorite progressives in Congress, Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders, have a bill that does exactly what Trump wants to do. 
Whoopi RAGES anyway and claims socialism is not socialism. <a href="https://t.co/EDA3DwcMGh">pic.twitter.com/EDA3DwcMGh</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1922322025089040541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out the fact that Trump&#8217;s plan was actually supported by some of the progressives in Congress — including Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) because some parts of it mirrored a bill they were already working on to lower drug costs.
Griffin then said that her main issue with the plan was the potential for enforcement of lowered prices, which she said veered too close to Soviet-style price controls for her tastes.
Goldberg then responded by arguing that the infusion of socialism into the health care system — the raising of taxes on everyone to make sure that the government could absorb the costs of drugs so that those who needed medication were able to afford it — was not actually socialism.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not socialism,&#8221; she insisted. &#8220;It&#8217;s best for the country if everyone can afford their health care!&#8221;

‘The View’ Panics Over Trump’s Plan To Lower Drug Costs, Mainly Because Dems Failed To Do It First

'The View' Panics Over Trump's Plan To Lower Drug Costs, Mainly Because Dems Failed To Do It First

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Whoopi Goldberg launched into a tirade against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, complaining that his recently-announced tariff on films made outside the United States amounted to an attempt to control the kind of movies that could be made.
Goldberg and her cohosts mocked Trump&#8217;s latest tariff announcement — a 100% tariff on movies made outside the United States — and kicked off the conversation by saying that Trump should deal with the egg prices (which have come down considerably since they peaked in March) before he worries about Hollywood.
&#8220;Okay, look,&#8221; Goldberg began. &#8220;You can&#8217;t do that because what that equates to is you&#8217;re going to tell me how to write the story I want to write if it happens in Europe, you&#8217;re telling me that if my book comes out and I want to write it, you&#8217;re telling me how to write it. You&#8217;re telling me you&#8217;re going to charge me for that.&#8221;
&#8220;What – you know, I — could you, look, ughhhhhh. Could you please lower the price of eggs before you start this?!&#8221; she continued.
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Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin mocks the idea of making some movie in America &#8220;Will it be Emily in Paris, Texas?&#8221; 
Sara Haines notes that Trump&#8217;s tariff threat has already caused California to want to increase incentives to film there. 
Whoopi continued to rage: &#8220;[I]f you… <a href="https://t.co/UGP6c2jMUE">pic.twitter.com/UGP6c2jMUE</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1919777666154045620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that some states were already competing to bring in filmmakers, noting that Georgia had effectively become &#8220;the Hollywood of the southeast because they make it cheaper to make movies there.&#8221; She then pivoted to mock the idea anyway, asking whether &#8220;Emily in Paris&#8221; would be remade as &#8220;Emily in Paris, Texas&#8221; — &#8220;or like &#8216;White Lotus: Mar-a-Lago Edition.&#8217; Movies will be very limited if you can only shoot here.&#8221;
Sara Haines noted that Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) had already moved to increase incentives for filmmakers to practice their craft in California, arguing that Trump&#8217;s plan could potentially bring about a positive outcome.
Goldberg pushed back, arguing that it would ultimately hurt movies if the tariff remained in place. &#8220;You can&#8217;t shoot &#8216;Gladiator&#8217; without going to Rome!&#8221;

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‘You Can’t Do That!’: Whoopi Trashes Trump Over Hollywood Tariff, Claims He’s Controlling Movie Plots

'You Can't Do That!' Whoopi Trashes Trump Over Hollywood Tariff, Claims He's Controlling Movie Plots

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Whoopi Goldberg appeared to stun her cohosts into silence when she put a positive — even passionate — spin on President Donald Trump&#8217;s stated goal of eventually dismantling the federal Department of Education.
During Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, Goldberg — who still refuses to even say Trump&#8217;s name aloud on the air — said that getting rid of the Department of Education could be a net positive if it served as a catalyst to get more people involved and engaged at the local level to make sure kids were getting what they needed.
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&#8220;What we have to always do, regardless of who you voted for, you still got to pay your rent, you still got to take care of your kids, you still got to take care of your business,&#8221; Goldberg began, adding, &#8220;And maybe some of what&#8217;s happening, like you know, they&#8217;re trying to take apart the Department of Education —&#8221;
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; her cohosts agreed, but then Goldberg threw them a curve and they all went quiet.
&#8220;Maybe that is a good thing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Because maybe it will force us to make sure that our kids actually get what they need. Maybe it will force us to go to our states and say, &#8216;Listen, I want to make sure since you&#8217;re taking all this money from my taxes, I want to make sure that my kids get exactly what they need.'&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to wait for the government to do it, we can do it!&#8221; she declared, effectively making the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/linda-mcmahon-crashes-dem-press-conference-outside-education-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservative argument</a> for returning control of education to the states and local school boards. &#8220;This is now in our hands. This is in our hands, and it&#8217;s going to be tough and nobody wants to do it because it&#8217;s a b****, but you know what? If it comes down to your survival, this is what you gotta do, you gotta take care of what you gotta take care of.&#8221;
Her cohosts remained silent as Goldberg wrapped up her thought, then pivoted quickly to announce that producers were telling her it was time for a commercial break.

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'The View' Hosts Shocked Into Silence As Whoopi Argues In Favor Of Trump Policy

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Whoopi Goldberg suggested on Monday that if President Donald Trump and his administration could deport terrorists and revoke the immigration status of anti-American agitators, there was no limit to who he could ultimately deport and exile from the United States.
Goldberg made the comments during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; just a week after the Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-pro-terrorist-anti-semitic-visa-holders-will-be-removed-from-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved to strip</a> a pro-Hamas agitator of his Green Card and days after more than 250 gang members — associated with violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and MS-13 — were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/these-are-the-monsters-trump-admin-deported-over-250-gang-members-to-el-salvador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deported to a mega-prison</a> in El Salvador.
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Without evidence, ABC&#39;s News moderator Whoopi Goldberg claims Trump is about to deport anyone who says something against him: &quot;If they can just come up and take somebody because they&#39;ve made a decision that you&#39;re supposed to be that person, anyone of us could find ourselves… <a href="https://t.co/mAKOHIHRCD">pic.twitter.com/mAKOHIHRCD</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1901672782548840758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You just gotta keep your eyes open, y&#8217;all,&#8221; she warned, going on to imply that even American citizens were at risk of deportation. &#8220;Because if they can just come up and take somebody because they&#8217;ve made a decision that you&#8217;re supposed to be that person, any one of us could find ourselves being deported to some country when we&#8217;ve never been there.&#8221;
&#8220;Listen, you know, it is very clear to me that if we don&#8217;t continue to say we want — listen, I understand you want to clean out all the old, some bad stuff,&#8221; Goldberg continued, pivoting in an apparent jab at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). &#8220;I get it, but why do you now have access to my personal information? I get what the things you are trying to do, I don&#8217;t understand why you&#8217;re taking my stuff. My personal — not mine personally, but each and every one of you! And your Constitutional right to free speech.&#8221;
Goldberg kept going down the rabbit hole, asserting that conservative claims of government censorship of their speech — which President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration bragged about doing and multiple social media platforms admitted to aiding in their efforts — were bogus.
&#8220;In fact, you&#8217;re doing the same thing you&#8217;re accusing everyone else of doing,&#8221; she lectured. &#8220;And you&#8217;re doing it in a way we&#8217;ve never seen before because very few people have kept you from speaking out.&#8221;

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Whoopi Claims That If Trump Can Deport Terrorists, He Can Deport 'Any One Of Us'

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; were at their wits&#8217; end on Monday as they discussed the Republican-led Continuing Resolution that passed on Friday, ensuring that the federal government would be funded until September, complaining that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had some explaining to do.
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg led the charge, saying that she planned to have a heart-to-heart with Schumer when he comes to the set for a Tuesday appearance on the midday talk show.
&#8220;So Senator Schumer is going to be here tomorrow, so we&#8217;ll have – yeah — so we&#8217;ll have a lot to talk about,&#8221; Goldberg said, prompting a few laughs from the audience.
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The View is not happy that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) doesn&#39;t want to shut down the government. Whoopi announces that he&#39;s be on the show tomorrow and reassures the liberal audience they&#39;ll assail him over it. <a href="https://t.co/htjplnANm9">pic.twitter.com/htjplnANm9</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1901654169771217125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines defended Schumer, arguing that allowing the government to shut down would likely have ultimately hurt Democrats.
&#8220;I think that he had two awful options, and this was the one that he chose, and I actually agree. A government shutdown never looks good on the party that seems to be the one that&#8217;s asking for it,&#8221; Haines said, adding that by allowing a shutdown and inviting that criticism, Democrats would be &#8220;taking the target off their back, Trump and Elon Musk, and putting it all on the Democrats&#8221; instead.
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Ana Navarro clashes with Haines and starts yelling at her:
HAINES: This is taking off all the guardrails and let them do whatever the hell they want. NAVARRO: I think that when the Democratic base is hearing chuck Schumer say, I&#39;m going to support this funding bill is because if… <a href="https://t.co/fxlyzkNpPu">pic.twitter.com/fxlyzkNpPu</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1901658288732655801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Ana Navarro objected immediately, telling Haines, &#8220;I love you but I don&#8217;t buy that explanation from you.&#8221;
&#8220;This is just take off all the guardrails and let them do whatever the hell they want,&#8221; Haines said.
&#8220;I think that when the Democratic base is hearing Chuck Schumer say, &#8216;The reason that I&#8217;m going to support this funding bill is because if not it&#8217;s going to give Trump and Elon the power to fire federal workers and to get rid of departments,&#8221; Navarro said, adding, &#8220;They&#8217;re already doing that! So it&#8217;s, like, me saying, okay, you know what? I&#8217;m going to get out of the shower but I&#8217;m not going to go outside and stand in the rain because I&#8217;m already wet. They&#8217;re already soaking wet! They&#8217;re already fired!&#8221;
&#8220;Okay so you don&#8217;t care about —&#8221; Haines objected.
&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter what I care about it&#8217;s already happening!&#8221; Navarro shot back.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin also said it was wise for Schumer to prevent a government shutdown, but argued that the Democrats&#8217; messaging had not been the best.
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Sunny Hostin wants the government shutdown because the Republican would be responsible somehow: &quot;I think what you fight on matters too, and I think, again, that this was a fight that needed to happen, and it didn&#39;t happen because of Chuck Schumer. If you think about it,… <a href="https://t.co/JNXDYXNSte">pic.twitter.com/JNXDYXNSte</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1901663501741166918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin sided with Navarro, adding, &#8220;I think what you fight on matters too, and I think, again, that this was a fight that needed to happen, and it didn&#8217;t happen because of Chuck Schumer. If you think about it, Republicans would have had to own that government shutdown.&#8221;
Hostin claimed that because Republicans have slim majorities in the House and the Senate — even though it was only Democrats who could have forced or prevented a shutdown — they would have shouldered the blame for any ensuing shutdown.

‘It’s Already Happening!’: ABC’s ‘The View’ Is In Absolute Panic Mode Over Schumer Caving On CR

'It's Already Happening!': ABC's 'The View' Is In Absolute Panic Mode Over Schumer Caving On CR

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