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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Whoopi Goldberg shocked The View by supporting Trump’s controversial proposal to eliminate the Department of Education, leaving the panel speechless as ABC producers abruptly cut to a commercial break. <a href="https://t.co/rM8WvBczxC">pic.twitter.com/rM8WvBczxC</a>
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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

'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;

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

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.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG, SARA HAINES, JOY BEHAR, SUNNY HOSTIN, ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN

‘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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Whoopi Goldberg used an appearance by trans-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney on Monday to defend biological men invading women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; athletics and private spaces.
Goldberg and her cohosts on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; invited Mulvaney, a biological male who skyrocketed to Insta-fame by documenting his transition into a parody of a teenage girl, to discuss his book about becoming said parody. Mulvaney added insult to injury, invading women&#8217;s spaces once again by releasing the book on International Women&#8217;s Day.
Goldberg and her cohosts <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1899148581061251430">raved over Mulvaney anyway during Monday&#8217;s broadcast</a>.
Cohost Ana Navarro mentioned one anecdote regarding a biological woman who identified as transgender and competed against males, suggesting that somehow made the hundreds of trans-identifying males taking medals, awards, scholarships, and roster spots from women acceptable.
&#8220;Well, I think part of the problem that the trans community is facing, and it&#8217;s the same problem that women face, is if you don&#8217;t know anything about our bodies, you don&#8217;t know how it works,&#8221; Goldberg claimed, immediately affirming trans-identifying men as no different from women.
&#8220;So when you come in and say, &#8216;These men — these are men, you know, competing against women,&#8217; you&#8217;re assuming that the women are weak and just can&#8217;t do anything except be here,&#8221; she continued in mocking tones. &#8220;Have you seen female athletes? They know what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;
&#8220;So I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going on or why this is an issue. The same for me is when people say oh, you know, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know how I feel about you.&#8217; You do. God doesn&#8217;t make mistakes,&#8221; Goldberg asserted, despite the fact that the idea that people can be born the &#8220;wrong&#8221; gender is predicated on the possibility of God making mistakes.
&#8220;The challenge is not to the trans people, it&#8217;s to the people who are not trans. That&#8217;s what God is looking at to see how you treat people,&#8221; she insisted. &#8220;That&#8217;s what — that&#8217;s what is happening.&#8221;

Whoopi Uses Dylan Mulvaney Appearance To Defend Men Invading Women’s Sports

Whoopi Uses Dylan Mulvaney Appearance To Defend Men Invading Women's Sports

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg admitted during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show that she used her platform on ABC News to help spread Democratic talking points.
Goldberg and her cohosts spent a good part of the show sparring with Stephen A. Smith, who argued that Democrats so far appear to be learning all the wrong lessons from their losses in the 2024 election cycle.
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Whoopi Goldberg admits Disney and ABC News&#39;s The View is platform to promote Democrat talking points: STEPHEN A. SMITH: [Y]ou&#39;re talking about what he&#39;s doing. But before you brought that up you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I&#39;m challenging… <a href="https://t.co/XEZVbXzWTs">pic.twitter.com/XEZVbXzWTs</a>
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Smith argued that the 2024 election was not so much about President Donald Trump and the Republicans &#8220;winning&#8221; as it was about the Democrats losing because they couldn&#8217;t get a handle on a message that resonated with the American people.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not about him winning. It was an indictment against the Democratic Party and what the Democratic Party was offering the American citizens,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We might sit up here and talk about, hey, you should be a party for the working class, which the Democratic Party was once known for — they&#8217;re not known for that right now. Why? Because their message was catering towards others and towards other issues.&#8221;
&#8220;The forgot about the people that brought them there, that elevated the Democratic Party to what it was over these last few decades. That&#8217;s why they lost. He didn&#8217;t win, the Democrats lost,&#8221; Smith insisted.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s remind people what those issues were,&#8221; Goldberg replied. &#8220;Making sure that families had what they need &#8230; making sure stuff is there. Making sure that the America we all grew up in, where you could come and be whoever you were supposed to be or want to be, you still have that right.&#8221;
&#8220;All these things are the things the Democrats have always said, but now we have a guy who&#8217;s in who says you know, I&#8217;m gonna bring down the price of eggs, but first I&#8217;m gonna cut all these jobs,&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;And I&#8217;m not gonna see why they need to be cut, I&#8217;m just gonna cut them &#8230; that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re talking about what he&#8217;s doing,&#8221; Smith pushed back. &#8220;But before you brought that up, you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I&#8217;m challenging you on that. That is not what they were doing.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, yes, it was. I was here. We did it!&#8221; Goldberg exclaimed.

Whoopi Admits She Uses ‘The View’ To Spread Democrat Talking Points

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Sunny Hostin claimed on Monday that it was &#8220;un-Godly&#8221; and &#8220;not Christian&#8221; to oppose woke culture, arguing that people who did so only proved that they did not care about their neighbors.
Hostin and &#8220;The View&#8221; cohost Whoopi Goldberg discussed their own personal histories, saying that because they had always been around people who were fighting for things like Civil Rights and other issues, they had &#8220;never been asleep.&#8221;
&#8220;I thought about the conversations that you and I have had, Whoopi, so many times about the co-opting of the word &#8216;woke,'&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;And the fact that the right somehow has made it a dirty word.&#8221;
&#8220;To be woke is a word that came out of the African American community and it was about being — acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging people&#8217;s suffering,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it.&#8221;
&#8220;And so Whoopi will often tell me, &#8216;I&#8217;ve never been asleep,'&#8221; she added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s how I feel &#8230; so it angers me when people are like, &#8216;This woke stuff gotta go.&#8217; That&#8217;s telling me that you don&#8217;t care about my lived experience, you don&#8217;t care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community, you don&#8217;t care about the oppression of the disabled, you don&#8217;t care about the oppression of immigrants, you don&#8217;t care about your fellow neighbors — and that is un-Godly, that is not Christian.&#8221;
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Fake Republican suggests Christians are hypocrites for not being &quot;woke.&quot; &quot;They don&#39;t care about it while wearing big, fat crosses around their necks,&quot; she chides. Whoopi claims Being woke &quot;will make you a better person.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3QCbEzPxMY">pic.twitter.com/3QCbEzPxMY</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1894070442580730266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You know what the most ironic thing is?&#8221; Ana Navarro asked. &#8220;They don&#8217;t care about it, and they don&#8217;t care about it while wearing big, fat crosses around their necks.&#8221;
Goldberg weighed in as well, saying that being exposed to &#8220;woke&#8221; was what actually made people better and arguing that positive change could really only be made by making people uncomfortable.

The View’s “Behind The Table” Podcast

Sunny Hostin: It’s ‘Un-Godly, Not Christian’ To Criticize ‘Woke’ Culture

Sunny Hostin: It's 'Un-Godly, Not Christian' To Criticize 'Woke' Culture

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Whoopi Goldberg took a page from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;basket of deplorables&#8221; playbook, admitting during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; that she can&#8217;t even talk to people who support President Donald Trump.
Goldberg still refuses to say Trump&#8217;s name aloud on the show — instead opting for terms like &#8220;the man in the White House&#8221; or &#8220;you know who&#8221; — and she made it clear on Monday that her disdain extended to half of the American people who voted for him.
The conversation began with cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, who noted that Trump had spent his time away from the White House between terms working on building out his agenda and planning how he could implement it — efforts that have been paying off during his first month in office.
&#8220;One of the things he is excellent at, and the media takes the bait often, is he writes himself into every story,&#8221; Griffin said. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t just do the Super Bowl interview, he attended the Super Bowl &#8230; he is working in a 21st century media environment that is outpacing traditional media but also the opposition. I think Dems are kind of playing on a 1990s playbook of, like, if I go speak on the Senate floor if I go on &#8216;Meet the Press,&#8217; it&#8217;s going to stop him.&#8221;
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Seemingly ignorant of how to properly address former presidents, Alyssa Farah Griffin huffs about people calling Trump &quot;Mr. President&quot; when he was out of office. She frets: &quot;Dems are kind of playing on a 1990s playbook of, like, if I go speak on the Senate floor if I go on Meet… <a href="https://t.co/YosnUKkcje">pic.twitter.com/YosnUKkcje</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1891523174350594091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Ana Navarro complained that the &#8220;resistance&#8221; against Trump was not materializing in the ways she believed it should, arguing that Democrats were struggling with &#8220;reaching people&#8221; to organize. &#8220;We all need to come together and show them that we&#8217;re mad as hell.&#8221;
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Farah Griffin says they need to talk to Trump voters if they want to persuade people. Whoopi says she doesn&#39;t like talking to Trump supporters and writes them off: &quot;It&#39;s hard to talk to people who support people who think you don&#39;t matter in the country&#8230;When you support THAT… <a href="https://t.co/GIp3Lg0f0A">pic.twitter.com/GIp3Lg0f0A</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1891527003821466094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Griffin noted that to be successful, they would have to &#8220;go into uncomfortable spaces&#8221; and include Trump voters in their efforts to bring more people in, and Goldberg balked.
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&#8220;I think this is beyond Democrats and Republicans,&#8221; Goldberg said. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to talk to people who support people who think you don&#8217;t matter in the country &#8230; When you support THAT person &#8230; when we find the stuff that we agree on, that&#8217;s what we do. When we find the stuff that is disagreeable to the majority, now, I didn&#8217;t find anything of interest for me in Project 2025. I didn&#8217;t feel like this is geared to us as a nation, I felt it was geared to very specific folks and that bothered the poo out of me.&#8221;
&#8220;I understand what you&#8217;re saying, and we do have to talk to each other,&#8221; she finally conceded.

Whoopi Goes Full ‘Basket Of Deplorables,’ Says She Can’t Even Talk To Trump Supporters

Whoopi Goes Full 'Basket Of Deplorables,' Says She Can't Even Talk To Trump Supporters

The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; took their commentary a few steps lower on Thursday when, during a segment devoted almost entirely to complaining about billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, they took a brief time out to mock his four-year-old son over his unusual name, X Æ A-XII.
The cohosts were responding to a televised briefing from the Oval Office during which Musk laid out some of what he had been uncovering with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project. President Donald Trump sat behind the resolute desk throughout the briefing, and Musk stood at his right shoulder. &#8220;Lil X,&#8221; as Musk calls his son, was also in the room at the time — a fact that did not escape Goldberg&#8217;s attention.
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ABC News hosts Whoopi Goldberg (a fake name) and Joy Behar mock and bully Elon Musk&#39;s 4-year-old son over his name: WHOOPI: Yeah, so yesterday Elon Musk took his son X to a press conference &#8212; JOY: X? WHOOPI: I did not name the child. JOY: That&#39;s the kid&#39;s name? WHOOPI: And I… <a href="https://t.co/h029AYdzFQ">pic.twitter.com/h029AYdzFQ</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1889708945108832695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Yeah, so yesterday Elon Musk took his son X to a press conference —&#8221; Goldberg began.
&#8220;X?&#8221; cohost Joy Behar asked.
Goldberg, shaking her head, said, &#8220;I did not name the child.&#8221;
Behar asked again, &#8220;That&#8217;s the kid&#8217;s name?&#8221;
&#8220;And I don&#8217;t want to hear any more mess about our names. Okay?&#8221; Goldberg — whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson — quipped. &#8220;Anyhoo, he took little X —&#8221;
&#8220;And little Instagram,&#8221; Behar joked, but cohost Sara Haines pointed out that Musk did not own Instagram.
&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t own Instagram, he just took Lil X with him,&#8221; Goldberg said. &#8220;To a press conference in the Oval Office to defend himself against critics who say he should not have the power to gut the federal agency.&#8221;
Not everyone took the same approach as Goldberg and her cohosts, however.
Actor William Shatner also joked about Musk bringing his son to the press conference, but his jab appeared to be all in fun.
&#8220;Is that one of your young engineers that work for DOGE?&#8221; Shatner asked. &#8220;I did hear that you hire young but this is something else! #adorable.&#8221;
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Is that one of your young engineers that work for DOGE? I did hear that you hire young but this is something else! 😉 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/adorable?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#adorable</a> <a href="https://t.co/PpBk8b7eVf">https://t.co/PpBk8b7eVf</a>
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Fox News host Will Cain added, &#8220;Personally I think we should trust a guy to find waste and fraud who doesn&#8217;t even spend on a babysitter,&#8221; he said.
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Personally I think we should trust a guy to find waste and fraud who doesn’t even spend on a babysitter. <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a>
&mdash; Will Cain (@willcain) <a href="https://twitter.com/willcain/status/1889429355413086286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Whoopi Goldberg Leads The Charge As ‘The View’ Hosts Mock Elon Musk’s Son Over His Name

Whoopi Goldberg Leads The Charge As 'The View' Hosts Mock Elon Musk's Son Over His Name

Elon Musk

The hosts of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; attempted to explain President Donald Trump&#8217;s use of tariffs — or the threat of tariffs — during Monday&#8217;s broadcast, and aside from a brief moment of lucidity from Alyssa Farah Griffin, got everything wrong.
Griffin opened the discussion by noting that Trump&#8217;s threats had already succeeded in bringing Mexico and Canada to the negotiating table — and that both had pledged to aid in his efforts to control the flow of illegal immigrants and lethal drugs across the border and into the United States.
She then pivoted to warn that she believed Trump might be moving toward a more isolationist policy, which she claimed could lead to American allies siding with China instead.
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Ana Navarro freaks out over the price of her tequila and avocados going up because of the tariffs: &quot;As if deporting good, hardworking immigrants wasn&#39;t enough&#8230;Now he&#39;s going to tax our tequila and avocados?!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/1mMv3yMz1H">pic.twitter.com/1mMv3yMz1H</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1886451381692735849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Ana Navarro weighed in then, claiming that the Trump administration was &#8220;bullying&#8221; immigrants by arresting and deporting violent criminals and complaining about the impact reciprocal tariffs from Mexico might have on the price of imports like avocados and tequila.
&#8220;I look at this thing in Mexico and I&#8217;m like, okay, as if deporting good, hardworking immigrants wasn&#8217;t enough. As if emboldening the racial profiling and bigotry against Latinos wasn&#8217;t enough. As if revoking temporary protective status for half a million Venezuelans wasn&#8217;t enough. As if bullying Panama wasn&#8217;t enough. Now he&#8217;s going to tax our tequila and avocados?!&#8221;
Cohost Sara Haines complained about the price of eggs, which skyrocketed due to an outbreak of bird flu before Trump even took office, and suggested that this was somehow tied to Trump&#8217;s tariff threats.
&#8220;Why aren&#8217;t the price of eggs getting better? This was the other part he promised which was tariffs,&#8221; she said, suggesting that the people making less than $50,000 who voted for him &#8221; in spades&#8221; were getting what they voted for, and it was going to hurt them the most.
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Whoopi now things she&#39;s an expert on U.S.-international trade and export quality control. She claims America&#39;s exports are crap: &quot;There&#39;s a reason people don&#39;t really take a lot of our things that we export because the quality of what we put out has not always been the best.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ANWAha7v7n">pic.twitter.com/ANWAha7v7n</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1886454028021735483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Whoopi Goldberg rounded out the discussion by claiming that Americans imported more than they exported because American products were subpar rather than because American labor laws have often made products too expensive to compete.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a reason people don&#8217;t really take a lot of our things that we export because the quality of what we put out has not always been the best,&#8221; she said.

‘The View’ Hosts Explain Tariffs To Audience, Get It Wrong: ‘Now He’s Going To Tax Our Tequila!’

'The View' Hosts Explain Tariffs To Audience, Get It Wrong: 'Now He's Going To Tax Our Tequila!'

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg ripped into White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday, scolding her for being critical of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies and suggested that without &#8220;wokeness,&#8221; she might not have a job in President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration.
&#8220;I would like — this young lady who&#8217;s — this is her first job, I would like her to do a little homework, because she said something yesterday that really pissed me off,&#8221; Goldberg began. &#8220;And that was, she said, &#8216;There will be no wokeness here.'&#8221;
&#8220;Let me explain something to you because without that wokeness, you might not have that job,&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;Because women were not invited to that table. Women were not invited to many tables in this nation. The reason we fought and busted our behinds to make sure that you didn&#8217;t have to worry about this.&#8221;
Goldberg continued down that path, continuing to claim that Leavitt, 27, would not have her job without &#8220;wokeness.&#8221;
&#8220;The wokeness was put in place for a reason!&#8221; she said. &#8220;Please, please stop using that phrase to talk about it because you don&#8217;t understand what you&#8217;re saying!&#8221;
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Whoopi, who tried to scare people to vote for Kamala by falsely claiming Trump was going to redistribute white spouses from interracial marriages, says she&#39;s worried that the expanded White House press pool will be &quot;state-run news&quot; and would &quot;feel a lot better&quot; if there were… <a href="https://t.co/n45WxoJqUZ">pic.twitter.com/n45WxoJqUZ</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1884665612502229249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg then pivoted to make the exact argument that President Trump and others within his administration have been making for doing away with DEI initiatives and moving instead towards merit-based systems.
&#8220;I will say this: I feel a lot better when I know there are standards people have to meet,&#8221; she said, and her cohosts agreed with her. &#8220;And so, you can bring in whoever you want, the truth will — the proof will be in the pudding. We can stand and say this is terrible, but so we&#8217;re going to wait and see what happens.&#8221;
Goldberg went on to suggest that the White House press pool in a Trump White House — despite the fact that it was not the case during his first administration — was likely to become &#8220;state-run&#8221; media.

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Whoopi Launches Tirade Against Karoline Leavitt After First White House Briefing

Karoline Leavitt

The hosts of ABC News&#8217; midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; aired what amounted to a collective temper tantrum on Tuesday, complaining about the fact that President Donald Trump had unshackled federal agents and tasked them with enforcing immigration law.
The broadcast began with regular host Whoopi Goldberg, who responded to actress Selena Gomez&#8217; tearful video claiming that her &#8220;people&#8221; were being attacked. Goldberg then falsely claimed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were indiscriminately sweeping up any and all illegal immigrants for immediate deportation.
Border czar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homan-ice-has-made-1300-arrests-including-pedophiles-gang-members-and-at-least-1-terrorist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Homan</a>, who spoke to NewsNation host Chris Cuomo last week, explained that the agents are targeting criminal aliens first — meaning those who have committed additional crimes beyond simply entering the United States illegally — but that because some of them are hiding in sanctuary jurisdictions, there have also been some &#8220;collateral&#8221; arrests.
Goldberg complained that the Trump administration was not beginning by deporting people who were already in prison because they&#8217;d been convicted of crimes. Joy Behar, ignoring the fact that they were American citizens and had already been pardoned, claimed that Trump couldn&#8217;t do that because he&#8217;d &#8220;have to send the January 6th people back too.&#8221;
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Sara Haines whines that the government is not listing the crimes of the illegals they&#39;re deporting. Joy Behar claims &quot;half have no criminal record.&quot; In reality, they&#39;re all criminals because they broke U.S. immigration laws and came/stayed in the country illegally. <a href="https://t.co/hG2yXcqzUR">pic.twitter.com/hG2yXcqzUR</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1884275460269285728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines complained that no one was providing details to the public about who had been detained by ICE and what their alleged crimes might be — but the White House has, in fact, been posting the photos and rap sheets of some of the worst offenders that have been picked up thus far in raids across the country.
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🚨613 CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN ARRESTS by ICE were recorded yesterday, January 26, 2025. 
HERE ARE SOME OF THE WORST ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/XPB4tqHVLQ">pic.twitter.com/XPB4tqHVLQ</a>
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Sunny Hostin pivoted to play the race card, claiming that &#8220;undocumented immigrants&#8221; statistically committed fewer crimes than American citizens, and then parsed the language to say that it was racist to call someone &#8220;illegal&#8221; and argued that illegal aliens should not be called &#8220;criminals&#8221; because crossing the border illegally was technically a &#8220;civil offense.&#8221;
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Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin claims, without evidence, lashes out at America and falsely claims only &quot;brown&quot; illegals were being deported: &quot;We have decided as a country to demonize a certain type of immigrant, a certain looking type of immigrant, and those immigrants are either… <a href="https://t.co/QIYnzGMiMx">pic.twitter.com/QIYnzGMiMx</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1884280178597044608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin went on to claim that the Trump deportation initiative was racially motivated: &#8220;We have decided as a country to demonize a certain type of immigrant, a certain looking type of immigrant, and those immigrants are either from Central America or Mexico, they are brown.&#8221;
She concluded by complaining that the United States lacked &#8220;empathy&#8221; for illegal immigrants.
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Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin scoffs at Debrina Kawam the woman who was set on fire and killed in the NYC subway by an illegal: ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: When people know of this woman was literally set on fire on a New York subway, they don&#39;t care what the stats say. She was… <a href="https://t.co/uwviz4Ra0x">pic.twitter.com/uwviz4Ra0x</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1884282733632823566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Alyssa Farah Griffin weighed in then, noting that the American people would not be convinced by statistics as long as their personal experiences told a different story. She referenced the woman who was set on fire and left to die on a New York City subway — an act committed by an illegal immigrant who &#8220;never should have been in the country,&#8221; and Hostin attempted to rebuff her.
&#8220;They should care about the stats and the facts,&#8221; Hostin insisted.

‘The View’ Hosts Air Collective Temper Tantrum Over Trump Admin Deporting Criminals

'The View' Hosts Air Collective Temper Tantrum Over Trump Admin Deporting Criminals

&#8220;The View&#8221; host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/whoopi-goldberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whoopi Goldberg</a> — with an assist from cohost Joy Behar — suggested that entrepreneur Elon Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance were plotting a hostile takeover to gain control of the White House.
During Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, Goldberg wondered about the amount of influence Musk was having on policy as Trump&#8217;s inauguration approaches.
Noting that she was not the only person questioning &#8220;who is in charge,&#8221; she added, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been saying it for a while. I&#8217;ve been saying that Elon Musk believes he&#8217;s president. I do.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you&#8217;ve been calling him vice president,&#8221; Behar interjected.
&#8220;I called him vice president, I called him president, because I don&#8217;t know what JD is doing,&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;I hardly ever — I don&#8217;t — I don&#8217;t remember the last time we even talked about JD.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s planning the presidency when they get rid of Trump,&#8221; Behar said.
&#8220;So you think it&#8217;s Musk — Musk-Vance?&#8221; Goldberg asked.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s possible,&#8221; Behar replied.
Goldberg then turned to the camera, addressing Trump directly despite the fact that she still refuses to say his name aloud: &#8220;Hey, You-Know-Who, stay away from the stairways.&#8221;
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After a commercial break, Whoopi tries to downplay her assassination comments about Trump by claiming she was thinking about her cat: &quot;My cat lays in wait for me on my stairs all the time and that&#39;s what I was referring [to].&quot; &quot;No one wants anything done to the President.&quot; Hostin <a href="https://t.co/4qUc0thEYT">pic.twitter.com/4qUc0thEYT</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1869791133716349093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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By the time the show came back from commercial break, Goldberg had apparently thought better of suggesting that someone might try to kill Trump and take control of the presidency.
&#8220;Okay, I need to clean something up,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Because my cat lays in wait for me on my stairs all the time and that&#8217;s what I was referring — I was thinking of that, I wasn&#8217;t trying to indicate that they were actually standing there with their legs out, hoping he would trip.&#8221;
&#8220;No one wants anything done to the president,&#8221; cohost Sunny Hostin added.
&#8220;It was light-hearted and it&#8217;s the holidays, come on,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;My goodness!&#8221;
&#8220;We did not mean that anybody should hurt the president,&#8221; Hostin said again.
Critics quickly pointed out the fact that &#8220;The View&#8221; falls under ABC&#8217;s &#8220;news&#8221; division — and that the network just agreed on Saturday to shell out millions over &#8220;This Week&#8221; anchor George Stephanopoulos&#8217; on-air false claims that President-elect Donald Trump had been found &#8220;liable for rape&#8221; in the E. Jean Carroll case.
&#8220;Fresh off a $15 million defamation settlement, ABC allows The View to fantasize about assassination plots against President-elect Trump,&#8221; Chad Gilmartin posted.
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&mdash; Chad Gilmartin (@ChadGilmartinCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadGilmartinCA/status/1869797065859183064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The View falls under ABC&#8217;s network news division. Will just keep reminding you of that,&#8221; Stephen L. Miller added.
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The View falls under ABC&#39;s network news division. Will just keep reminding you of that. <a href="https://t.co/O4IfaVQmqf">https://t.co/O4IfaVQmqf</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1869795330960830699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Whoopi Airs Fever Dream On Live TV, Says Musk And Vance Could Be Plotting Hostile Takeover

JD Vance

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