The View’s lead stars, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, once again upheld their reputation for bloviating nonexistent fears created by President Trump. This time, Trump somehow timed the federal furloughs to coincide with private businesses contracting their labor pools, and has been haunting celebrity dreams!
Goldberg fear mongered over an apparent attempt by Trump to maximize suffering amongst American workers by supposedly colluding with UPS and other businesses:
… they are doing everything they can do to say nothing to — there's nothing to see here. And there's so much to see, and it's only getting darker because they keep doing things — I'm sorry, right now is not the time, in my opinion, to be furloughing people in these big companies. Why now? Is that to make the pain worse? Because you have to know your workers are in pain. But — and now UPS, I mean, everything.
Using inciting rhetoric, Whoopi bloviates about how "it's only getting darker" in America and claims major companies like UPS are colluding with the Trump administration to furlough workers in private businesses, not just the federal government. pic.twitter.com/Vyh34E1qem
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 29, 2025
Large corporations have been reducing their workforces due to economic uncertainty and the presumptive dominance of A.I. capabilities. The government shutdown was purely coincidental timing-wise and only involved federal employees and contractors.
After co-host Sunny Hostin mentioned the federal judge who blocked the Office of Management and Budget from laying off four thousand more federal workers, Goldberg hoped the same would happen in the private sector:
“I hope they do the same thing with the big businesses, because — you know, if you gonna lay folks off, do it in January, you know, give people time, because you just doing this like a snap decision. This doesn't give people any time to prepare. And I find that this seems to be the thing, they say, ‘Oh, we're gonna do it tomorrow.’ And then it's like, ‘Well, wait a minute.’”
Sorry, Whoopi-cushion. Judges couldn’t just tell private businesses to not layoff at-will employees. And the federal employees who have been furloughed aren’t being paid right now… because the government is broke right now.
Trump was also guilty of keeping Joy Behar from getting a full night’s worth of beauty sleep, because she feared he’d let fly with the nukes:
Joy Behar's admits on national TV that her Trump Derangement Syndrome is so advanced that it keeps her up at night and she "woke up this morning 4:00" worrying that he would launch nukes. pic.twitter.com/5Wlgaamu4v
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 29, 2025
But the tragedy of this and the scary part is that this person who can tell you the difference between a camel and an elephant has the nuclear codes. […] That is what frightens me and keeps me up at night and why I woke up this morning at 4 o’clock. Because I'm worried about the fact that he cannot pass, really, a cognitive test.
Behar also took a swipe at CNN’s Jake Tapper for not scrutinizing Trump enough, “And I'd like to know why Jake tapper who wrote an entire book about Biden's cognitive abilities and says nothing and writes nothing about this guy.”
It’s not like the ladies would have Tapper on to defend himself anyways. Oh, and the Media Research Center’s offer to make an appearance still stands.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" read:
ABC’s The View
October 29, 2025
11:09:20 a.m. EST
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know —
SUNNY HOSTIN: Release the Epstein files.
GOLDBERG: — they are doing everything they can do to say nothing to — there's nothing to see here. And there's so much to see, and it's only getting darker because they keep doing things — I'm sorry, right now is not the time, in my opinion, to be furloughing people in these big companies. Why now? Is that to make the pain worse? Because you have to know your workers are in pain. But — and now UPS, I mean, everything.
JOY BEHAR: They don't seem to care really —
GOLDBERG: Well, but even the people who —
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Businesses react to the economy. The economy is not doing well.
[Crosstalk]
HOSTIN: I will say, I do think — and you can correct me in my ear if I'm wrong — I think a federal judge stopped the furloughing and the laying off of federal workers, just recently, I think —
BEHAR: Temporarily.
HOSTIN: So, at least the courts have held a little bit —
FARAH GRIFFIN: They are awaiting pay —
GOLDBERG: I hope they do the same thing with the big businesses, because — you know, if you gonna lay folks off, do it in January, you know, give people time, because you just doing this like a snap decision. This doesn't give people any time to prepare. And I find that this seems to be the thing, they say, “Oh, we're gonna do it tomorrow.” And then it's like, “Well, wait a minute.” And then everybody’s in a hazarai because you're trying to figure out what to do with your life. It's crazy. We’ll be right back.
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11:17:38 a.m. EST
BEHAR: But the tragedy of this and the scary part is that this person who can tell you the difference between a camel and an elephant has the nuclear codes.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
BEHAR: That is what frightens me and keeps me up at night and why I woke up this morning at 4 o’clock. Because I'm worried about the fact that he cannot pass, really, a cognitive test. And I'd like to know why Jake Tapper who wrote an entire book about Biden's cognitive abilities and says nothing and writes nothing about this guy.
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