After spending the first segment of Monday’s show talking about the Oscars and commending ABC moderator Whoopi Goldberg’s dress at the event, The View pivoted to talking about the confrontation between President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House last week. In leading the discussion, Goldberg came out in support in Ukraine but did so at the expense of America; equating the United States with imperial invaders like Russia.
“You know, that has to be one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen,” she proclaimed after playing an extended soundbite of the contentious exchange.
As if she had a clue about what Trump’s voters thought, she suggested they didn’t vote for him “to be the hard guy” and argued that he should have somehow “asked” everyone first:
This is a leader of a sovereign nation, and you are doing theater with him because you're trying to show that you're the hard guy. But I don't think anybody wanted you to be the hard guy. I don't think you asked anybody how they felt; how people who voted -- voted for you. You didn't ask them how they feel about what you're doing.
“You didn't ask them if they want to be operatives of Putin's government. You haven't asked that,” she Goldberg decried.
While forgetting Zelenskyy’s name, Goldberg said she was “sorry” and “I do stand with you…because you’ve been fighting, your country has been fighting and you have been doing it on your own.”
“I stand with y'all because nobody should ever be able to come into your country and say, ‘this is my country,’” she declared. It was then that she equated America with Russia. “We have a habit of doing that. Many countries in our world have a habit of going in and invading other countries,” she asserted.
“Who are we?” she asked the rest of the table. “What did you think when you watched this insanity?”
Near the end of the segment, Goldberg gave the audience and the viewers at home instructions for how to support Ukraine:
GOLDBERG: And here's -- Here's the thing that everybody can do. If you support Ukraine, say it out loud. Say it out loud.
SUNNY HOSTIN: I support Ukraine.
AUDIENCE: I support Ukraine.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: Okay. I support Ukraine.
“This is what's going to change the tide. It's us. We have to be vocal,” she added.
That demand to be vocal was then expanded to the media; with a dash of moral blackmail included:
Media outlets have to be vocal! Media outlets have to call it out! Even at threat of being sued! Call out the truth! Call it out because if you don't, it looks like you're joining them!
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
March 3, 2025
11:16:14 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know, that has to be one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen.
[Applause]
This is a leader of a sovereign nation, and you are doing theater with him because you're trying to show that you're the hard guy. But I don't think anybody wanted you to be the hard guy. I don't think you asked anybody how they felt; how people who voted -- voted for you. You didn't ask them how they feel about what you're doing. You didn't ask them if they want to be operatives of Putin's government. You haven't asked that.
And I'm sorry. I do stand with you --
ANA NAVARRO: Zelenskyy.
GOLDBERG: Zelenskyy, because you’ve been fighting, your country has been fighting and you have been doing it on your own. And you have been getting help, but I stand with y'all because nobody should ever be able to come into your country and say, ‘this is my country.’
[Applause]
We have a habit of doing that. Many countries in our world have a habit of going in and invading other countries, and we all have said -- I thought for the past at least 100 years, we don't like that. We don't want to do that. We don't want to be that, and here we are.
Who are we? What did you think when you watched this insanity?
(…)
11:27:37 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: And here's -- Here's the thing that everybody can do. If you support Ukraine, say it out loud. Say it out loud.
SUNNY HOSTIN: I support Ukraine.
AUDIENCE: I support Ukraine.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: Okay. I support Ukraine. You know?
NAVARRO: Protesters – J.D. Vance was in Vermont skiing and protesters showed up in the coldest weather telling him to go ski in Russia.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
NAVARRO: Maybe stay there while you're at it.
GOLDBERG: This is what's going to change the tide. It's us. We have to be vocal. Media outlets have to be vocal!
[Applause]
Media outlets have to call it out! Even at threat of being sued! Call out the truth! Call it out because if you don't, it looks like you're joining them!
