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 combating, your nation has been combating,” Goldberg mentioned. “I stand with y’all, as a result of many international locations in our world have a behavior of getting into and invading different international locations. And all of us have mentioned, for the previous not less than 100 years, we do not like that. We do not wish to do this. We do not wish 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, through which 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 Pressure One with Trump, having been to Mar-a-Lago — is all that price it to promote out all the pieces you imagine in? To promote your whole ideas?” Griffin mentioned, after reminding audiences that 62% of People help Ukraine, and Trump and JD Vance are within the minority.

Ana Navarro additionally had points with the assembly, significantly when it got here to Trump and his allies criticizing Zelenskyy for not carrying a swimsuit to the Oval Workplace.

“He is carrying what he is carrying as a result of he’s representing folks’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 colleges 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 swimsuit throughout a go to to the White Home, Winston Churchill.

“Nicely, you understand who else confirmed up throughout a struggle wearing uniform throughout World Conflict 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 identified for many years, and for Marco Rubio, who I’ve identified for 30 years. I’m so embarrassed and ashamed. Marco has spent his total life and profession speaking in opposition to tyranny, speaking in opposition to 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 a query this was a setup, as a result of a vice chairman usually doesn’t communicate 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 feel it actually took a flip when, when Zelenskyy, along with his bravery and along 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 needed to embolden Putin, and so they 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: in the event you help Ukraine, say it out loud. Say it out loud,” and known as on the media to do the identical.

“That is what is going on to vary the tide. It is us. We’ve got to be vocal. Media shops must be vocal. Media shops must name it out. Even at menace of being sued, name out the reality — name it out! ‘Trigger in the event you 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.