Coming back from their extended Memorial Day weekend, the head crone of ABC’s cackling coven, Whoopi Goldberg spewed lies about President Trump never honoring Gold Star families before his Memorial Day speeches. Meanwhile, the show previously attacked Gold Star families for appearing with him.
“It was about time we heard him give the Gold Star families their due. It was about time he did that, because he spoke and said we are proud of our Gold Star families,” Goldberg falsely proclaimed, again spewing lies as truth under the banner of ABC News.
Even when she was corrected by co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin that Trump had honored Gold Star families in his first term, Goldberg shifted the goalpost to another inaccurate position:
FARAH GRIFFIN: No, he’s hosted them at the White House in his first term.
GOLDBERG: Right, but the last time we collectively heard him talking about Gold Star families were not - it was not positive.
ANA NAVARRO: Who could hear all that in the midst of all of that stuff?
GOLDBERG: I mean, well, I heard that because it was something that I needed to have him say.
Fox News media critic Joe Concha called out ABC News on X for Goldberg's lie and had the receipts in the form of a 2017 presidential proclamation from Trump, which read: "president Donald J. Trump Proclaims September 24, 2027, as Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day."
MSABC isn’t just overwhelmingly biased… But profoundly dishonest. https://t.co/yFnhQI4r3w pic.twitter.com/rCFLW2Wp1K
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 27, 2025
This was another instance of Goldberg, who’s known for getting high, just making something up out of nothing at all.
In fact, just last September, The View lashed out and attacked at Gold Star families of those killed at Abbey Gate for daring to appear with Trump at Arlington National Cemetery. Co-host Sara Haines equated it to swimming in the 9/11 fountain at Ground Zero:
HAINES: And that's why the Arlington thing bothered me because what Donald Trump's people keep saying is, ‘Those families invited us. They told us.” But that’d be like a 9/11 family member telling me I could swim in the memorial fountain.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Right.
HAINES: Just because they lost someone doesn't mean there isn't sanctity. And rules and it's not just about one headstone in the back of a video, it’s about every life that is there for us.
Of course, The View omitted the fact that former President Biden had refused to meet with those families and never said the names of the service members killed. He even looked at his watch multiple times because he didn’t care about them.
Back on The View, co-host Joy Behar couldn’t wrap her brain around why West Point would invite the commander-in-chief to speak at their commencement ceremony:
BEHAR: So, why would they invite him to speak at West Point and wearing the hat was a political move also. It shows you that –
FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, he’s Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces–
BEHAR: Its politics, the hat is politics, it's not about anything but that. So he’s supposed to be not political at West Point or Arlington Cemetery, and there he is being political, and rambling.
Behar also falsely claimed Biden had never disrespected veterans. Her proof? “[E]very time he was on television said, ‘God bless our troops.’ Always said that,” she argued. For the truth, just re-read above about his treatment of the Abbey Gate Gold Star families.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
May 27, 2025
11:04:36 AM EST(...)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: It was about time we heard him give the Gold Star families their due. It was about time he did that, because he spoke and said we are proud of our Gold Star families. This is the first time– at least maybe -- unless you've heard him do it.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: No, he’s hosted them at the White House in his first term.
GOLDBERG: Right, but the last time we collectively heard him talking about Gold Star families were not - it was not positive.
ANA NAVARRO: Who could hear all that in the midst of all of that stuff?
GOLDBERG: I mean, well, I heard that because it was something that I needed to have him say.
(...)
11:05:58 AM EST
FARAH GRIFFIN: There’s a lot of work that goes into what are supposed to be scripted remarks, but he's kind of become notorious - especially in the second term and on the campaign trial - for what he calls “the weave,” where he manages to hit a lot of topics at different times.
Listen, I'll say this, he doesn't strike the right tone at these. He likes to post things on Truth Social like the suckers, the losers, the scum, whatever. He does this on kind of reverential days, and he’s doing it to troll us. And if there's one thing Donald Trump really gets, it's the media and politicians who oppose him, because they’re then going to grasp that and be, like, ‘how dare he do that on a solemn day?’
You know what I would say? Veterans in America are forgotten about except on Election Day, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day. Like, politicians talk about them when they want their vote, they cater to them, and tell them the things they're gonna do, but don't deliver day-to-day. The V.A. has been broken for 20 years, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump. It's still broken, it doesn't work.
A lot of my friends are veterans and served, I worked at DOD, and they will say they feel like political pawns for politicians to use to their benefit. And I just wish people would actually listen to veterans about what they need, what they care about, not just sort of use them for, like, election season props.
(...)
11:07:17 AM EST
JOY BEHAR: So, why would they invite him to speak at West Point and wearing the hat was a political move also. It shows you that –
FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, he’s Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces–
BEHAR: Its politics, the hat is politics, it's not about anything but that. So he’s supposed to be not political at West Point or Arlington Cemetery, and there he is being political, and rambling.
Jake Tapper needs to do another book, because he was rambling, he's running around, I see him– I’ve seen pictures of him walking into walls.
ANA NAVARRO: You're not even joking. I have a clip that I saw, I was out of the country and for five blissful days I didn't hear his voice. I had no cell service and I had no TV, but then I come in and I watch a clip like this, when– to your point, of you were just talking, can we see the clip?
BEHAR: Yeah.
[CUT TO CLIP]
PRESIDENT TRUMP (ON VIDEO): As a linguist, translator, and cryptolo– logic technician.
[CUT TO LIVE]
NAVARRO: Right. I mean, if Joe Biden said that, right? We'd be talking about his cognitive skills and cognitive decline for days.
BEHAR: Why does the media avoid it with him? Tell me.
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFITH: We’ve talked about it on this show countless times–
NAVARRO: I think people are a little numb to it and I think people expect this from him, so they don't see it as a decline because I guess he's never been incredibly eloquent to begin with.
(...)
