“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg has kept up a steady stream of criticism aimed at President Donald Trump, from his military actions in Iran to his reception at the World Cup, with the ABC talk show serving as a recurring forum for confrontation with the administration.
Booed at the World Cup
On July 20, Goldberg and her co-hosts seized on Trump being booed at the World Cup. Goldberg said trying to hurt the immigrant community only backfires and criticized leaders who disparage nations.
“The View” co-host Ana Navarro framed the tournament itself as a rebuke of the administration’s immigration posture. She said that 25% of the 1,248 players were born in a country different from the one they represented, calling the 39-day event a celebration of immigration.
Navarro also invoked the second-place Argentine team, saying some of the tattooed players collecting their medals would be racially profiled by Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if they were standing outside a Home Depot rather than on a championship stage. She read aloud harsh remarks Trump had made about Spain, which won the final. The segment celebrated Spain’s victory alongside a star-studded halftime show.
Blasting Iran Strikes
On March 9, Goldberg and her co-hosts criticized Trump’s military actions in Iran, warning they would prove disastrous for Americans at home and abroad.
“Basically, we are sending people in to lose their lives,” Goldberg said, invoking the war in Afghanistan and stressing that the president’s own children would not be the ones fighting. She reminded viewers that Trump had pledged not to pursue such a course.
Navarro said she was troubled by how cavalier the president had become about war and regime change, comparing him to daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey handing out interventions. She said Venezuela was a kleptocracy with no missiles or drones, while Iran was a theocracy poised to rally its people.
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin argued that Trump had campaigned on an “America first” message and on fixing problems at home, saying voters had been duped and that ending a war is far harder than starting one. She warned that troops fighting in Iran’s backyard would face guerrilla combat in the streets, and that many would not come home.
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales dismissed Goldberg and Navarro as critics with a poorly rated show, saying the president was courageously protecting the United States from the rogue Iranian regime through what the administration calls Operation Epic Fury. Wales said the terrorist regime, under the Ayatollah, had killed and maimed thousands of Americans for nearly 50 years.
Goldberg’s public criticism of Trump has taken other forms as well. On April 27, she suggested the president build a new hotel in Washington rather than a White House ballroom, a comment she made after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
