The two oldest crones form the ABC News coven known as The View lashed out at White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg condescendingly lectured Leavitt about her opposition to the sickness that’s known as “wokeness,” and insisted Leavitt didn’t know what she was talking about. Meanwhile, Joy Behar attacked Leavitt for her looks, suggesting that she only got the job because President Trump was attracted to her.
Ugly ageism lurked under Goldberg’s thinly veiled history lecture, falsely claiming the position was Leavitt’s “first job” ever. Goldberg bloviated that she wanted “this young lady” to do her “homework.”
Goldberg (69) said Leavitt “said something yesterday that pissed me off,” when the latter denounced wokeness. “Let me explain something to you,” she grimaced. “Because, without that wokeness, you might not have that job!”
“And now to hear you talk about it – and to hear anybody talk about the wokeness. The wokeness was put in place for a reason!” Goldberg shouted.
“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't have to worry about this,” she added. “Women were not invited too this party. It was a man's world, and we busted our asses to make sure that this was a person’s world!”
Goldberg went on to demand that Leavitt, “please, please stop using that phrase to talk about because you don't understand what you're saying!”
Behar (82) then chimed in with her rusted two cents to jealously attack Leavitt’s looks and suggest she didn’t actually earn the job, just looked pretty for Trump. “And by the way, she's been probably put in the because according to Donald Trump she's a 10. You know that's what it is,” she shouted.
Anti-Trumper Alyssa Farah Griffin eventually spoke up to correct the record on Leavitt’s career path. “I want to be clear, though. It's not her first job. It was her first press believing. She worked in the previous Trump administration,” she said as the rest of the cast tried to speak over her.
“This is the first time she's been -- she may be, but my point is that job would not maybe have been open to her,” Goldberg tried to argue.
Goldberg would go on to whine about Leavitt and the Trump White House expanding access to the White House press pool. She claimed this would lead to “state-run news.” She suggested she would "feel a lot better" if there were "standards people have to meet." She also complained that "there's too much BS out there" and " there's no way to control it."
That bellyaching came from the same woman who tried to scare people into voting for Vice President Kamala Harris by falsely claiming Trump was going to break up interracial families and redistribute the white spouse to someone else. She also once insisted that “the Holocaust isn’t about race.”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
January 29, 2025
11:16:49 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I would like -- this young lady who – this is her first job – I would like her to do homework. Because she said something yesterday that pissed me off. And that was, she said, There will be no wokeness here. Let me explain something to you! Because, without that wokeness, you might not have that job because –
[Applause]
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't have to worry about this.
And now to hear you talk about it – and to hear anybody talk about the wokeness. The wokeness was put in place for a reason! Because black people couldn't get into colleges, because women could not get into the colleges they wanted to go to. This is all women, see, this is not black, Asian, whatever – this is all women. Women were not invited too this party. It was a man's world, and we busted our asses to make sure that this was a person’s world!
[Applause]
So, please, please stop using that phrase to talk about because you don't understand what you're saying!
You're saying about yourself that, you know, ‘hey, that's a terrible thing to be’ -- it's not a terrible thing to be. That's why we fought, that's what we were fighting for so that you could stand in that podium, so that Kathrine [sic] Jean-Pierre could stand at that podium, so women of all colors and ilks, wherever they came from, whatever their belief system was, they had the opportunity to bust down that door.
I just wanted to --
JOY BEHAR: And by the way, she's been probably put in the because according to Donald Trump she's a 10. You know that's what it is!
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I want to be clear, though. It's not her first job. It was her first press believing. She worked in the previous Trump administration.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: This is the first time she's been -- she may be, but my point is that job would not maybe have been open to her --
FARAH GRIFFIN: No, I understand. I just wanted to clarify that.
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