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 stated 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 stated. “I stand with y’all, as a result of many international locations in our world have a behavior of getting in and invading different international locations. And all of us have stated, for the previous a minimum of 100 years, we do not like that. We do not wish to try this. We do not wish to be that. And right here we’re. Who’re we?”

Slamming Trump for making an attempt to be “the laborious man” Goldberg added that she thought the Oval Workplace assembly, during 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 Drive One with Trump, having been to Mar-a-Lago — is all that price it to promote out the whole lot you imagine in? To promote all your rules?” Griffin stated, after reminding audiences that 62% of People assist 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 sporting a go well with to the Oval Workplace.

“He is sporting what he is sporting as a result of he’s representing individuals’s struggling, as a result of he’s representing a rustic of battle, as a result of over 100 hospitals have been destroyed,” she stated. “Over 700 faculties 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 go well with throughout a go to to the White Home, Winston Churchill.

“Properly, you realize who else confirmed up throughout a battle wearing uniform throughout World Battle Two? Winston Churchill…and no person stated 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 towards tyranny, speaking towards 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] stated 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 try this.”

She continued, “And I feel it actually took a flip when, when Zelenskyy, together with his bravery and together with his braveness, stated 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 house and within the viewers: “Here is the factor that everyone can do: in case you assist Ukraine, say it out loud. Say it out loud,” and referred to as on the media to do the identical.

“That is what is going on to vary the tide. It is us. We now have to be vocal. Media shops must be vocal. Media shops must name it out. Even at risk of being sued, name out the reality — name it out! ‘Trigger in case you do not, it seems to be such as you’re becoming a member of them,” she added.

The View airs weekdays at 11:00 a.m. ET on ABC.