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 mentioned 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 mentioned. “I stand with y’all, as a result of many international locations in our world have a behavior of entering into and invading different international locations. And all of us have mentioned, for the previous at the very 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 onerous man” Goldberg added that she thought the Oval Workplace assembly, wherein 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 Power One with Trump, having been to Mar-a-Lago — is all that price it to promote out every part you imagine in? To promote your whole ideas?” Griffin mentioned, 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, notably when it got here to Trump and his allies criticizing Zelenskyy for not sporting a go well with to the Oval Workplace.

“He is sporting what he is sporting as a result of he’s representing individuals’s struggling, as a result of he’s representing a rustic of struggle, as a result of over 100 hospitals have been destroyed,” she mentioned. “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 go well with 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 Struggle Two? Winston Churchill…and no one mentioned something,” she famous.

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

“I simply must have a phrase for Lindsey Graham, who I’ve recognized for many years, and for Marco Rubio, who I’ve recognized for 30 years. I’m so embarrassed and ashamed. Marco has spent his total life and profession speaking towards tyranny, speaking towards 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] mentioned on MSNBC, there isn’t any query this was a setup, as a result of a vice chairman typically doesn’t converse 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, together with his bravery and together with his braveness, mentioned 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 wished to embolden Putin, they usually did.”

Goldberg re-entered the dialog with some phrases of recommendation for these at dwelling and within the viewers: “Here is the factor that everyone can do: for those who help Ukraine, say it out loud. Say it out loud,” and referred to as on the media to do the identical.

“That is what is going on to alter the tide. It is us. We’ve got to be vocal. Media retailers must be vocal. Media retailers must name it out. Even at risk of being sued, name out the reality — name it out! ‘Trigger for those who do not, it appears to be like such as you’re becoming a member of them,” she added.

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