Whoopi Goldberg Slams Trump After ‘Embarrassing’ Zelenskyy Assembly on The View

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 preventing, your nation has been preventing,” Goldberg stated. “I stand with y’all, as a result of many nations in our world have a behavior of getting in and invading different nations. And all of us have stated, for the previous at the least 100 years, we do not like that. We do not need to do this. We do not need to be that. And right here we’re. Who’re we?”

Slamming Trump for attempting to be “the arduous man” Goldberg added that she thought the Oval Workplace assembly, during which Trump and Vance successfully switched sides from supporting Ukraine to supporting Russia, was “chilling,” a sentiment co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed with.

“I’ll by no means perceive, in my bones — having been on Air Pressure One with Trump, having been to Mar-a-Lago — is all that value it to promote out every little thing you imagine in? To promote all your ideas?” 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, significantly 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 folks’s struggling, as a result of he’s representing a rustic of struggle, 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, you already know who else confirmed up throughout a struggle wearing uniform throughout World Warfare Two? Winston Churchill…and no person stated something,” she famous.

Navarro additionally fired photographs at a number of the different Republicans within the room.

“I simply should 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 whole life and profession speaking in opposition to tyranny, speaking in opposition to 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 a query this was a setup, as a result of a vice chairman usually doesn’t communicate 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 believe it actually took a flip when, when Zelenskyy, along with his bravery and along with his braveness, stated to JD Vance, ‘Have you ever ever been to Ukraine?’ He embarrassed the bully, and what occurs if you embarrass a bully? They’ve a tantrum… They needed to embolden Putin, and so they did.”

Goldberg re-entered the dialog with some phrases of recommendation for these at dwelling and within the viewers: “This is the factor that everyone can do: in case you 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 shops should be vocal. Media shops should name it out. Even at menace of being sued, name out the reality — name it out! ‘Trigger in case you do not, it seems such as you’re becoming a member of them,” she added.

The View airs weekdays at 11:00 a.m. ET on ABC.