Whoopi: Trump Started War With Iran to Distract from Guthrie Search

Nicholas Fondacaro
March 10th, 2026 3:56 PM

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Many in the liberal elitist media, including on ABC’s The View, had made the ridiculous suggestion that President Trump intentionally started a war with Iran as a distraction to the Epstein files because they purportedly implicated him in sex crimes against children. But on Tuesday’s edition of The View, moderator Whoopi Goldberg took the accusations to a new insane level by suggesting the war was started to distract from the search for Nancy Guthrie. She also claimed Trump thought of America’s service members as nothing more than “cannon fodder.”

Describing the conflict with Iran, Goldberg repeatedly called it “nutty as hell.” Without explain why Trump would need to distract people from the Guthrie case, she floated it was a reason for the war (along with the Epstein files):

GOLDBERG: I was thinking about it yesterday, because I thought, well, okay, why haven't we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what's going on there?

HOSTIN: And her mother.

GOLDBERG: Why haven't we not been -- why have we not been talking about the Epstein files? Because that's still there. This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.

“It's a very wag-the-dog feeling. Very wag-the-dog feeling,” co-host Sunny Hostin agreed.

 

 

As the cast was nearing the end of their second Block talking about the war, Goldberg gave herself the final word by claiming that Trump didn’t care at all for the lives of American service members and was just sending them to die:

HAINES: And no matter who is on the other end of that you watch a bomb or siren or in one of these country, it is a trauma that you don't forget. So, no matter who it is, you should have a gut-wrenching feeling that that was really hard and that was awful. And that was, you know.

GOLDBERG: Well, they don't have that feeling because to them we're cannon fodder. They don't care. You know? It's how they also treat our vets. It tells you a lot. You've heard him talk about vets. You've heard what he has said.

It was a disgusting accusation given that a lot of America’s military development had been to increase our lethality and the preserving of American lives. Her comments were meant to conjure horrific images for the American public into believing the conflict would like WWI were soldiers would go over the top and just get mowed down by enemy fire.

 

 

Goldberg was on something of a roll with making asinine comments during Tuesday’s episode.

Apparently ignorant of President Biden draining the strategic oil reserves and Congressional Democrats blocking Trump from refilling them, Goldberg demanded to know why Trump hadn’t tapped the reserves to bring down supposedly high prices:

GOLDBERG: And there's a whole, you know, we have reserves for this. We have reserves. Where are they?

BEHAR: Oil reserves?

GOLDBERG: Where is our oil?! Yeah, for gas, when gas gets too much, they bust out the reserves and it brings the price down. So where are -- where are the reserves? Where is that? Where is anything that he said other than a lot of misery.

 

 

In addition to being ignorant of why the reserves were largely empty, Goldberg flaunted her profound ignorance for what the reserves were actually meant for. They were not, as she insisted, meant to be an aid when prices got high. The strategic oil reserve was meant for the military during emergencies. Of course, no one corrected her.

Goldberg wasn’t the only one making terrible comments that day. Co-host Joy Behar toyed with more violent rhetoric when she was seemingly fantasizing about America going through the French Revolution, when they killed their king:

BEHAR: He speak with forked tongue.

GOLDBERG: Like snake. Does it seem like we're going to be getting -- so, what does this tell you? This is mixed messages. And we’re used to that. But what does your gut feel?

BEHAR: I feel like we're live in the reign of terror. Am I the only one here to remember the French Revolution?!

 

 

Also making dumb comments, Hostin whined that Trump was spending money on eliminating one of America’s enemies instead of supposedly “eradicate[ing] homelessness.” She also blamed him for California having high gas prices:

And they're estimating that if it goes on for say some of the other war, 40 days, 43 days, it could cost the American people more than $200 billion. To eradicate homelessness in this country, it would only cost $20 billion. So, while using this money to wage a war which is a regime change war which he said he wouldn't do it, the people that voted him wanted America first. Put America first, end homelessness. Why are gas prices in California $8 a gallon?"

For someone named “sunny,” she was pretty dim. California was the only state in the union with gas prices anywhere close to that high, which meant it was California’s policies that were responsible for that. Additionally, California had spent billions trying to solve their own homelessness problem and it had only gotten worse, and it was already the worst in the country.

 

 

The View is an ABC News program.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
March 10, 2026
11:03:26 a.m. Eastern

(…)

JOY BEHAR: He speak with forked tongue.

[Laughter]

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Like snake. Does it seem like we're going to be getting -- so, what does this tell you? This is mixed messages. And we’re used to that. But what does your gut feel?

BEHAR: I feel like we're live in the reign of terror. Am I the only one here to remember the French Revolution?!

[Laughter]

I really feel like - I feel like every day I wake up and he has created more chaos, more misery around the world. The economy is going down the toilet. Gas prices are going through the roof. World economies are suffering. And we're in the middle of this and I feel like we're pretty much helpless to do anything because [slams her had on the desk] the Republican Party will not stand up to fool! That’s all.

[Applause]

SUNNY HOSTIN: That's all. I mean, it's something to your point, Whoopi, you know, I've said it before, it's very easy to get into a war, very hard to get out of one. And we know that and I don't think he has a plan. I don't even think he has concepts of a plan at this point. And I --

GOLDBERG: Like healthcare.

HOSTIN: Yeah, like healthcare.

GOLDBERG: Yeah, so it’s like that.

HOSTIN: Well, I mean the concept of a plan on how to get out of Iran. He's saying there is no leader. Actually the son of the person that used to be the leader is considered far-more right is now in charge. And I think these mixed messages really are going to ultimately effect the American people, because it is estimated that this war that we started is costing the American people between $1 billion and $2 billion a day.

BEHAR: God.

HOSTIN: And they're estimating that if it goes on for say some of the other war, 40 days, 43 days, it could cost the American people more than $200 billion. To eradicate homelessness in this country, it would only cost $20 billion. So, while using this money to wage a war which is a regime change war which he said he wouldn't do it, the people that voted him wanted America first. Put America first, end homelessness. Why are gas prices in California $8 a gallon?"

(…)

11:06:36 a.m. Eastern

GOLDBERG: And there's a whole, you know, we have reserves for this. We have reserves. Where are they?

BEHAR: Oil reserves?

GOLDBERG: Where is our oil?! Yeah, for gas, when gas gets too much, they bust out the reserves and it brings the price down. So where are -- where are the reserves? Where is that? Where is anything that he said other than a lot of misery.

BEHAR: Right.

GOLDBERG: A lot of pain for people. His people in particular.

UNDERWOOD: That's right.

HOSTIN: The people that voted for him.

GOLDBERG: The people who voted for him feeling it.

HOSTIN: Yeah.

BEHAR: I think they're turning a little bit.

(…)

11:08:59 a.m. Eastern

GOLDBERG: Well, I mean, it's just nutty as hell. It's nutty as hell and you're right, every day is something new. And it's -- you know, I was thinking about it yesterday, because I thought, well, okay, why haven't we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what's going on there?

HOSTIN: And her mother.

GOLDBERG: Why haven't we not been -- why have we not been talking about the Epstein files? Because that's still there. This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.

[Applause]

HOSTIN: It's a very wag-the-dog feeling. Very wag-the-dog feeling.

(…)

11:13:02 a.m. Eastern

SARA HAINES: And no matter who is on the other end of that you watch a bomb or siren or in one of these country, it is a trauma that you don't forget. So, no matter who it is, you should have a gut-wrenching feeling that that was really hard and that was awful. And that was, you know.

GOLDBERG: Well, they don't have that feeling because to them we're cannon fodder. They don't care. You know? It's how they also treat our vets. It tells you a lot. You've heard him talk about vets. You've heard what he has said.

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