They want him overthrown. President Trump’s visit to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum where he dressed down European leaders was the final straw for the leftists of ABC’s The View. They were so fed up that, on Wednesday’s episode, ABC moderator Whoopi Goldberg was openly calling for Trump to be overthrown via the 25th Amendment. It would be a move she didn’t seem educated on since it required his cabinet to act and she wanted them gone too.
“25th Amendment! 25th Amendment! It’s time! 25th Amendment! It's time! It's time! It's time!,” Goldberg shouted after playing soundbites of Trump’s Davos address.
With support from co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar, Goldberg argued that it was long past when Trump needed to be removed from office:
HOSTIN: You believe at this point that the President of the United States may not have his full faculties?
GOLDBERG: I felt that before now!
JOY BEHAR: Yeah, but the cherry on the cake was yesterday.
GOLDBERG: Well, no. There's been a lot of cherries on the cake. There have been several cherries. The cherries on this cake are enormous! There are so many.
BEHAR: It’s a cherry tree.
GOLDBERG: The line's in the sand. I mean, it looks like a stamp! There's so many lines in the sand.
Whoopi Goldberg after hearing Trump's Davos speech: "It's time! 25th Amendment! It's time! It's time! It's time!"
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 21, 2026
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SUNNY HOSTIN: To that point, Whoopi, you would be in a lot of company. You believe at this point that the president of the United States may not have… pic.twitter.com/4VPyGk1IH8
“Look, he is sitting in a position that is uncomfortable to me. I'm sorry. I'm uncomfortable with him as president,” Goldberg proclaimed, as if her feelings were enough justification to overthrow a sitting president.
Unfortunately for her, a majority of Americans did feel comfortable with him being president. That’s why he won the election.
Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in with a “dose of reality” to remind Goldberg the cabinet was need to invoke the 25th Amendment, but she shouted that she wanted them out too:
FARAH GRIFFIN: But just remember, the 25th amendment requires the cabinet around him to act.
GOLDBERG: I understand.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I know, but just as a dose of reality, his cabinet is squarely with him, though I do think --
GOLDBERG: Yes, and it's time for them to go too!
Despite needing the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, Whoopi wants them gone too:
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 21, 2026
GOLDBERG: You know, look, he is sitting in a position that is uncomfortable to me.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: I'm sorry. I'm uncomfortable with him as president.
BEHAR: A lot of people believe… pic.twitter.com/YPi3qsA1Kq
Farah Griffin would go on to gripe about Trump’s dressing down of European leaders, whining it sounded, “like he's more mad at them than he is our enemies.” According Behar’s conspiracy-theory-driven brain, it was because “Putin likes him” and “He's a Russian asset!”
Behar’s regurgitation of the long-debunked Russia Collusion Hoax didn’t really square with her concern from two weeks prior, that Trump was pointlessly antagonizing Russia by seizing a ghost fleet oil tanker, and possibly leading us into a military confrontation.
Joy Behar regurgitates the Russia collusion hoax and claims - without evidence - that Trump is a "Russian asset."
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 21, 2026
FARAH GRIFFIN: It frustrates me when he talks about our European allies. Like he's more mad at them than he is our enemies.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: You know why? You… pic.twitter.com/uSpJsVcvYf
Hostin chimed back in later in the show to claim that Trump was planning to take over the world unless Europe stood up to him: “[I]f Europe capitulates, as Whoopi just said, every single country is at risk! This is an imperialist president! He wants to colonize everybody! Every country!”
Behar nearly had a mental breakdown after Farah Griffin reminded them that Trump still had three years left. “No, don't tell me he has three years left! I can't. I can't hear that,” she pleaded. Goldberg responded by hinting at her 25th Amendment plot: “You got to make some changes. You got to make changes. You know?”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
January 21, 2026
11:04:25 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: 25th Amendment! 25th Amendment! It’s time! 25th Amendment! It's time! It's time! It's time!
[Applause]
SUNNY HOSTIN: To that point, Whoopi, you would be in a lot of company. You believe at this point that the President of the United States may not have his full faculties?
GOLDBERG: I felt that before now!
JOY BEHAR: Yeah, but the cherry on the cake was yesterday.
GOLDBERG: Well, no. There's been a lot of cherries on the cake. There have been several cherries. The cherries on this cake are enormous! There are so many.
BEHAR: It’s a cherry tree.
GOLDBERG: The line's in the sand. I mean, it looks like a stamp! There's so many lines in the sand.
BEHAR: Even his former White House attorney Ty Cobb said that 'anybody outside the United States who believes that Trump is sane is' -- there is nobody outside this country that thinks he's sane. And his former Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said 'this presser is bizarre even for him. It's low energy and feels like he's mentally slipping.' These are people who would normally work for him. Who have worked for him.
GOLDBERG: A two-hour –
HOSTIN: Press conference.
BEHAR: Ramble.
GOLDBERG: Press conference about I don’t know what. It was – it – You know, look, he is sitting in a position that is uncomfortable to me.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: I'm sorry. I'm uncomfortable with him as president.
BEHAR: A lot of people believe that.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But just remember, the 25th amendment requires the cabinet around him to act.
GOLDBERG: I understand.
BEHAR: Well, we're talking to them.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I know, but just as a dose of reality, his cabinet is squarely with him, though I do think --
GOLDBERG: Yes, and it's time for them to go too!
FARAH GRIFFIN: This is where midterms, elections, and Congress comes into pay.
(…)
11:07:29 a.m. Eastern
FARAH GRIFFIN: It frustrates me when I hear him talk about our European allies. It’s like he's more mad at them than he is our enemies.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: You know why? You know why? Because they don't like him and they don't support him! Putin likes him because he likes what is going on with him!
FARAH GRIFFIN: I don't think Putin likes him.
BEHAR: Well, Putin is on his side! He's a Russian asset!
(…)
11:11:51 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: [I]f Europe capitulates, as Whoopi just said, every single country is at risk! This is an imperialist president! He wants to colonize everybody! Every country!
(…)
11:21:29 a.m. Eastern
FARAH GRIFFIN: It all just feels like a distraction from the one thing he was asked to and it’s like you've got three years left and Americans are hurting.
BEHAR: No, don't tell me he has three years left! I can't.
GOLDBERG: Well, you know --
BEHAR: I can't hear that.
GOLDBERG: You got to make some changes. You got to make changes. You know?
(…)
