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Calling last week’s Trump-Zelensky-Vance Oval Office showdown “one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen,” The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg made no secret of which side she’s on.
“I do stand with you, Zelensky, because you’ve been fighting, your country has been fighting,” Goldberg said on today’s View, adding, I stand with y’all, because many countries in our world have a habit of going in and invading other countries. And we all have said, for the past at least 100 years, we don’t like that. We don’t want to do that. We don’t want to be that. And here we are. Who are we?”
Goldberg added that she though the Oval Office meeting, in which Trump and Vance effectively switched sides from supporting Ukraine to supporting Russia, was “chilling.”
The View‘s other cohosts also weighed in, including Ana Navarro, who said, “First of all, I think this was all staged, and this was all prepared, because the minute Zelensky gets off a car, Donald Trump makes an issue of how he is dressed. Well, you know who else showed up during a war dressed in uniform during World War Two? Winston Churchill…and nobody said anything.
“I think that is a red herring,” she continued, “what he’s wearing, because he is representing people suffering, because he is representing a country at war, because over 100 hospitals have been destroyed, over 700 schools have been destroyed, over 100 churches have been destroyed. Thousands and thousands and thousands of Ukrainian lives have been destroyed and lost, and for them to be picking on the way he was dressed was one of the worst, most embarrassing, horrifying, mortifying moments I’ve ever seen in the Oval Office.”
Navarro also directed comments to other Republicans. “I just have to have a word for Lindsey Graham, who I’ve known for decades, and for Marco Rubio, who I’ve known for 30 years. I am so embarrassed and ashamed. Marco has spent his entire life and career talking against tyranny, talking against Putin and his influence in Latin America, and to see him sell out his conviction and his principle and go do Donald Trump’s bidding.”
Said Sunny Hostin: “It was an embarrassment. I will say I agree with you, Ana, it was pre-planned because former ambassador to the UN Susan [Rice] said on MSNBC, there is no question this was a setup, because a vice president generally does not speak in those moments without the approval of the of the President. So President Trump knew that JD Vance was going to do that. And I think it really took a turn when, when Zelensky, with his bravery and with his courage, said to JD Vance, ‘Have you ever been to Ukraine?’ He embarrassed the bully, and what happens when you embarrass a bully? They have a tantrum…They wanted to embolden Putin, and they did.
Goldberg then re-entered the conversation, saying, Here’s the thing that everybody can do: if you support Ukraine, say it out loud. Say it out loud.”
“I support Ukraine,” said Hostin.
