ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg apparently didn’t learn a lesson from her former lover Ted Danson’s controversy of wearing blackface as a white man (which she defended). During Monday’s edition of The View, Goldberg instructed people to attend the Super Bowl in 2026 while wearing Latinoface in an effort to confuse the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that would be at the event as part of the usual Homeland Security deployment.
Racism was a key aspect to the conversation as co-host Joy Behar accused DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of being a racist because she was sending ICE to the Super Bowl where Latino singer Bad Bunny was performing:
She's threatening to go to the Super Bowl when Bad Bunny is there and round up all these people that are illegal immigrants. Do you think that she would go if it was Garth brooks or Eminem or Taylor Swift or any other white person?!
This caused Goldberg to wonder, “How is she going to know who’s who?” as if Secretary Noem would be the one making the arrests. With Behar again pushing the lie that the Supreme Court legalized racial profiling, Goldberg solution was for attendees to dress up in Latinoface:
BEHAR: Because the Supreme Court has given permission to question anyone who has a Spanish accent, who has a dark skin. That's why!
GOLDBERG: Here is the thing, everybody, get a little cocoa butter, sit in the sun, that's the first thing. And then -- and this is the only time you can probably ever do this, give yourself a Latin accent.
BEHAR: You know, Whoopi, that is such a good idea!
GOLDBERG: And just see -- and see if she can tell who’s who!
Behar would go on to praise Goldberg’s racist idea as “very smart” and suggested it had historical context to support it, of course, it meant comparing the Trump administration to a Nazi occupation.
“During the Nazi occupation there was one country, I believe it was Denmark or Norway. One of those. Where everybody put the Jewish star on and they didn't know who was Jewish or who was not,” she declared. Once again, despite proclaiming she knows history, Behar’s tale was a lie.
During the war, Norway was very much an ally of Nazi German and according to the Holocaust Museum, the Danish didn’t wear the star on masse either. “In another version, the Danish people decided to wear yellow stars. Both of these particular stories are fictional. In fact, unlike Jews in other countries under German occupation, Jews in Denmark never wore an identification mark such as a yellow star,” the museum wrote about Danish King Christian X and Denmark during the war.
Previously, while declaring “I know history,” Behar once claimed that it was NATO military alliance that fought and defeated Hitler. It’s also worth noting that Behar herself had worn blackface in a similar way to what Goldberg described.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
October 6, 2025
11:04:32 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: She's threatening to go to the Super Bowl when Bad Bunny is there and round up all these people that are illegal immigrants. Do you think that she would go if it was Garth brooks or Eminem or Taylor Swift or any other white person?!
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Let me understand what you're saying because she's going to go to the Super Bowl and round up -- how is she going to know who’s who?
BEHAR: Because the Supreme Court has given permission to question anyone who has a Spanish accent, who has a dark skin. That's why!
GOLDBERG: Here is the thing, everybody, get a little cocoa butter, sit in the sun, that's the first thing. And then -- and this is the only time you can probably ever do this, give yourself a Latin accent.
BEHAR: You know, Whoopi, that is such a good idea!
GOLDBERG: And just see -- and see if she can tell who’s who!
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Who do they think are buying Super Bowl tickets?! I can't afford a Super Bowl ticket.
BEHAR: During the Nazi occupation there was one country, I believe it was Denmark or Norway. One of those. Where everybody put the Jewish star on and they didn't know who was Jewish or who was not. So what you are saying is very smart!
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