Whoopi Goldberg Fakes Tears Over Trump Losses on ‘The View’

Whoopi Goldberg might not usually get to show off her EGOT-winning performance skills as moderator of The View, but she did so on Monday’s (June 1) live episode.

After the cohost discussed — and, in some cases, celebrated — the multiple musician dropouts from Donald Trump‘s “Freedom 250” concert event and condemned Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for the many allegations against him, Goldberg introduced the third “Hot Topic” segment of the day with a case of the (fake) gulps.

Goldberg introduced the list of recent losses for “You Know Who,” as she calls Trump, starting with, “A judge ordered his name removed from the Kennedy Center,” which she recited with feigned sadness.

“Girl, if they get me a ladder, I’ll do it for free,” Ana Navarro then quipped.

“And they blocked his renovation plans,” Goldberg continued, barely able to get the words out due to her faux sobs. “Another judge temporarily blocked his $1.7 billion so-called ‘anti-weaponization’ fund. And former VP Mike Pence weighed in on it over the weekend.”

After reviewing footage of Pence saying that January 6th rioters should not get “one dime of taxpayer money,” the conversation became a bit more serious.

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“I love to see Mike Pence tanned and just spitting facts,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked under the VP during the first Trump administration, then said. She also argued, however, that the ruling against the fund was a “huge win” for Republicans in Congress who wouldn’t want to have to answer for it.

Then, Sunny Hostin chimed in and said that while the Kennedy Center renaming shutdown was a “small win,” it was also “satisfying” to see that. What really got her excited, though, was the quashing of the billion-plus-dollar fund for convicted Capitol rioters. “I thought what was really special was this blocking of the slush fund because you had 35 former federal judges get involved, write a letter, and say, ‘This cannot and shall not pass.’ They wrote a letter to their colleague, the current federal judge, and she recalled the case,” Hostin explained. “So while I’ve been saying all along, ‘There’s no checks and balances happening in the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the lawyers, they are fighting.”

Goldberg came back into the conversation, this time without the pity party act, and agreed, “The law is the law.” She also predicted that of the federal prosecutors who have left the government so as not to be in Trump’s employ, “they will be back. Something to look forward to.”

The View, weekdays, 11a/10c, ABC

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