Goldberg known as out Friday’s Trump-Zelensky-Vance Oval Workplace showdown, labeling it “probably the most embarrassing issues I’ve ever seen.”
Whoopi Goldberg is making it very clear whose facet she’s on after Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s assembly president Donald Trump on Friday.
Discussing the now-viral video of the televised assembly on The View Monday, Goldberg stated she stands with Zelenskyy after the “embarrassing” show she noticed from each Trump and vice chairman JD Vance at The White Home.
“I do stand with you, Zelenskyy, since you’ve been combating, your nation has been combating,” Goldberg stated. “I stand with y’all, as a result of many international locations in our world have a behavior of getting into and invading different international locations. And all of us have stated, for the previous at the very least 100 years, we do not like that. We do not need to try this. We do not need to be that. And right here we’re. Who’re we?”
Slamming Trump for making an attempt to be “the exhausting man” Goldberg added that she thought the Oval Workplace assembly, wherein Trump and Vance successfully switched sides from supporting Ukraine to supporting Russia, was “chilling,” a sentiment co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed with.
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“I’ll by no means perceive, in my bones — having been on Air Drive One with Trump, having been to Mar-a-Lago — is all that value it to promote out all the things you imagine in? To promote your whole rules?” Griffin stated, after reminding audiences that 62% of Individuals help Ukraine, and Trump and JD Vance are within the minority.
Ana Navarro additionally had points with the assembly, notably when it got here to Trump and his allies criticizing Zelenskyy for not carrying a swimsuit to the Oval Workplace.
“He is carrying what he is carrying as a result of he’s representing individuals’s struggling, as a result of he’s representing a rustic of warfare, as a result of over 100 hospitals have been destroyed,” she stated. “Over 700 faculties have been destroyed. Over 100 church buildings have been destroyed.”
Navarro additionally identified a notable determine in historical past who too selected to not put on a swimsuit throughout a go to to the White Home, Winston Churchill.
“Nicely, who else confirmed up throughout a warfare wearing uniform throughout World Warfare Two? Winston Churchill…and no person stated something,” she famous.
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Navarro additionally fired photographs at among the different Republicans within the room.
“I simply need to have a phrase for Lindsey Graham, who I’ve identified for many years, and for Marco Rubio, who I’ve identified for 30 years. I’m so embarrassed and ashamed. Marco has spent his complete life and profession speaking towards tyranny, speaking towards Putin and his affect in Latin America, and to see him promote out his conviction and his precept and go do Donald Trump’s bidding.”
“It was a humiliation. I’ll say I agree with you, Ana, it was pre-planned as a result of former ambassador to the UN Susan [Rice] stated on MSNBC, there isn’t any query this was a setup, as a result of a vice chairman usually doesn’t converse in these moments with out the approval of the President,” host Sunny Hostin added. “So President Trump knew that JD Vance was going to do this.”
She continued, “And I feel it actually took a flip when, when Zelenskyy, together with his bravery and together with his braveness, stated to JD Vance, ‘Have you ever ever been to Ukraine?’ He embarrassed the bully, and what occurs once you embarrass a bully? They’ve a tantrum… They wished to embolden Putin, they usually did.”
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Goldberg re-entered the dialog with some phrases of recommendation for these at residence and within the viewers: “Here is the factor that everyone can do: for those who help Ukraine, say it out loud. Say it out loud,” and known as on the media to do the identical.
“That is what is going on to vary the tide. It is us. We have now to be vocal. Media retailers need to be vocal. Media retailers need to name it out. Even at menace of being sued, name out the reality — name it out! ‘Trigger for those who do not, it appears to be like such as you’re becoming a member of them,” she added.
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