Whoopi Claims America 'Doesn't Feel that Much Safer' Under Trump

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View had their knickers in a bunch during Monday’s show because President Trump received a peace prize from FIFA last week. While mocking it as being “cringe” and meaningless, they sure had a lot to say about it; including that America didn’t feel safer under President Trump and that he needed to be investigated for corruption.

“I don't know. I just feel like he's trying to hurt people's feelings to piss them off. That's not the way to do it,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg whined at the top of the segment, referring to Trump putting his name on buildings around Washington, D.C. and getting a peace prize from FIFA.

Seemingly suggesting that Trump hadn’t earned a peace prize of any kind, Goldberg bloviated about how America didn’t feel safe to her at all:

But I just want to say that, to me, it doesn't feel that much safer since we're blowing up boats in the Caribbean and ICE agents have arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records. It doesn't feel all that safe to me. Maybe – Maybe these are the moves he thinks that are going to make America great again [sic]. I mean, how much would Republicans have freaked out had Biden or Obama done any of those things?

 

 

The idea of deportation orders clearly alluded Goldberg’s mental comprehension. Which made sense since earlier in the year, she warned, “any one of us could find ourselves being deported” in reference to the cast. Meanwhile, they were all born or naturalized citizens.

Since simple concepts like that were outside of Goldberg’s grasps, it was obvious that negotiating multilateral, international peace deals that untangled America’s web of interests that had the country focused on the Middle East for decades would be beyond her. That much was clear when she paraphrased singer Janet Jackson and demanded to know what Trump had done for America lately:

GOLDBERG: I don't understand what the point is. Because what is he doing for us? Where’s that Janet Jackson song, what have you done for me, America? I'm saying as America. What have you done for us lately, except pick up phony prizes to make yourself feel better.

HOSTIN: I like – You know, the thing about this peace award, this peace medal --

GOLDBERG: It’s a piece of metal, yeah.

Goldberg was followed up by co-host Sunny Hostin who boasted about President Obama’s Nobel Prize. “I think the fact that President Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize is still living rent-free in this President's mind and he wants the Nobel Peace Prize,” she mocked. “I don't think he's worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, quite frankly.”

Of course, no one on the set (including the purported “conservative,” Alyssa Farah Griffin) wanted to mention that Obama had done literally nothing to merit his Nobel.

 

 

Hostin also demanded that Trump be investigated for corruption:

So, this seems very much like a pay-for-play-type of situation for me, as a former prosecutor. And I think we need to look at that. If people can just buy this President by giving him a fake award, what else is happening that we don't know about?

Building off Hostin’s corruption claims, fake Republican Ana Navarro quipped that FIFA, like many others, figured out how to appease Trump:

[I]f you show up with a tchotchkes, preferably covered in gold and give it to the three-year-old in the Oval Office, he will be entertained and he will be happy. Tim Cook showed up with a glass and gold Apple thing. The guys from Switzerland showed up with like a gold Rolex. Qatar gave him a $400 million jet.

 

 

In an effort “not to be outdone” Navarro then pulled out a bunch of fake medals and handed them out to the rest of the cast. “I do love a made up award because it’s probably the only kind I will ever get,” Farah Griffin joked, adding that the FIFA award “just feels too cringe to me.”

Ignoring how detangling America’s obligations abroad was helpful to America, Farah Griffin bloviated about how Trump was too focused on international issues:

I commend him on the deal in the Middle East. That made sense. I think it was smart policy. But what I keep hearing from his voters, people who count themselves as America first voters, is it seems like he's more distracted by what's happening around the world and not delivering back home, and that is what will mar his legacy.

Goldberg ended the segment by proclaiming that if Trump didn’t change, his legacy was “going to disappear and you will just be a footnote like gas in the desert.”

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
December 8, 2025
11:05:16 a.m. Eastern

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WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I don't know. I just feel like he's trying to hurt people's feelings to piss them off. That's not the way to do it.

But I just want to say that, to me, it doesn't feel that much safer since we're blowing up boats in the Caribbean and ICE agents have arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records. It doesn't feel all that safe to me. Maybe -- maybe these are the moves he thinks that are going to make America great again [sic]. I mean, how much would Republicans have freaked out had Biden or Obama done any of those things?

SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah.

GOLDBERG: And I just -- I don't understand what the point is. Because what is he doing for us? Where’s that Janet Jackson song, what have you done for me, America? I'm saying as America. What have you done for us lately, except pick up phony prizes to make yourself feel better.

HOSTIN: I like –

[Applause]

You know, the thing about this peace award, this peace medal --

GOLDBERG: It’s a piece of metal, yeah.

HOSTIN: It’s a piece of metal, correct. It just – I think we all know that Obama lives rent-free in Trump's head and he has for a really long time and I think the fact that President Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize is still living rent-free in this President's mind and he wants the Nobel Peace Prize. He's probably not going to get the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't think he's worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, quite frankly.

[Applause]

And so this is a made-up award for him, this FIFA award.

Now, let's remember, you know, FIFA has a long and well-documented history of corruption scandals, if we're going to be honest about it. In 2015, the Department of Justice indicted over a dozen FIFA officials on racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering. And then in 2018, Russia won the award –

ANA NAVARRO: The World Cup.

HOSTIN: The FIFA World Cup. 2022 Qatar won the World Cup. And then --

NAVARRO: No, no. World Cup venue.

HOSTIN: To host it. Then in 2020, the U.S. indicted them alleging that officials received bribes to host -- those countries to host. So, this seems very much like a pay-for-play-type of situation for me, as a former prosecutor. And I think we need to look at that. If people can just buy this President by giving him a fake award, what else is happening that we don't know about?

(…)

11:08:37 a.m. Eastern

NAVARRO: So, I think Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, has figured out what practically every other world leader, every other corporate leader has figured out: that if you show up with a tchotchkes, preferably covered in gold and give it to the three-year-old in the Oval Office, he will be entertained and he will be happy. Tim Cook showed up with a glass and gold Apple thing. The guys from Switzerland showed up with like a gold Rolex. Qatar gave him a $400 million jet. So, all I want to say is not to be outdone –

[Pulls out fake medals]

HOSTIN: Oh, you've got something?

NAVARRO: You get a medal and you get a medal.

[Cheers and applause]

HOSTIN: Give me one! Give me one!

NAVARRO: And you get a medal and you get a medal and I get a medal.

HOSTIN: Thank you.

[Cheers and applause]

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I do love a made up award because it’s probably the only kind I will ever get. But this just feels too cringe to me. Listen, the President Trump right now is focused heavily on his legacy. He wants to make sure that the history books can't dismiss him as a fluke; like ‘oh that was a weird thing that happened and we've moved on.’ So, that's why you hear him talking a lot about the Nobel Peace Prize. He wants this – I’m calling the arch de Trump but he want this, his own monument in Washington, D.C. He's putting his names on different things throughout the capital.

And I think a lot of -- and I think he's had a heavy focus on the world stage, which that's always a job of presidents. I commend him on the deal in the Middle East. That made sense. I think it was smart policy. But what I keep hearing from his voters, people who count themselves as America first voters, is it seems like he's more distracted by what's happening around the world and not delivering back home, and that is what will mar his legacy.

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