‘The View’: Whoopi Goldberg Excoriates New Trump Press Secretary Over ‘Wokeness’ Briefing Comments
Things got off to a relatively tame start on Wednesday’s (January 29) edition of The View — until the subject of the first Trump administration press briefing came up, and Whoopi Goldberg went on an absolute tear about one of the new press secretary’s first statements.
The “Hot Topic” at hand was ostensibly about the fact that Karoline Leavitt said the White House was committed to welcoming bloggers and influencers who cover news into the briefing room, but Goldberg wanted to talk about another part of her debut statements.
“I would like her to do a little homework because she said something yesterday that really pissed me off. And that was she said, ‘There will be no wokeness here.’ Oh, yeah, let me explain something to you, because without that wokeness, you might not have that job,” Goldberg said. “Yeah, because women were not invited to that table. Women were not invited to many tables in this nation.”
Goldberg’s heated reaction continued, “The reason we fought and busted our behinds [was] to make sure that you didn’t have to worry about this. And now to hear you talk about it, and to hear anybody talk about ‘the wokeness,’ the wokeness was put in place for a reason: because Black people couldn’t get into colleges, because women could not get into the colleges they wanted to go to. This is all women, see. This is not Black, Asian women. This is all women. Women were not invited to this party. It was a man’s world, and we busted our a**es to make sure that this was a person’s world. So please, please stop using that phrase and talking about this because you don’t understand what you’re saying.”
Leavitt, who held the first White House press briefing on Tuesday (January 28), referenced so-called “wokeness” in her question-and-answer series with reporters. She was asked about the “confusion” among medical care and other providers resulting from the federal funding freeze ordered by Trump (which has been suspended by a federal judge after sowing chaos, particularly with Medicaid portals). In response, Leavitt defended the action and said that the pause is really meant to result in “no more funding for transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.”
As for the direct topic at hand, introducing new types of outlets to the briefing room, Goldberg said, “The mistake is there’s too much BS floating out there, and now it’s out of our hands. There’s no way to control it. So now they’re saying they’re going to control it. I want to see what they’re going to do. I want to see who they’re going to invite into this because, quite honestly, I like when we’re held to standards. I don’t always like the way they do it, but we have to have ourselves together. We can’t just say stuff in spite of what they tell you. We can’t just spout stuff. So I want that for everybody, and if they’re going to guarantee that there at the briefing, then I’ll be happy.”
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"Homework" LMAO! Whoopi was the one who said Jill Biden should be the surgeon general because "she's a hell of a doctor!!" Jill is NOT a medical doctor; Whoopi just assumed she was, and because she's a democrat, automatically assumed the "hell of" part. Maybe Whoopi and crew should do THEIR homework!
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Facts have no bearing on liberal emotional outbursts.
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This is a fact. 😂
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I think she made that tongue-in-check remark to take aim at Trump's nomination of RFKjr. I.e., Jill Biden's doctorate in Education was a better qualification that RFK's.
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Jill Biden more Qualified than RFK? I’d would suggest checking the last administrations posts for this job.
The man who held RFK’s potential new job was a Lawyer. Far less capable and far less credentials.
It to mentions the second in charge of the HHS under Biden.
Even google searches will show you this stuff.
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Since Sean Spicer's departure, all presidential press secretaries have been women. What's been more "woke" than that?
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whoppi what a crazy it person
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Karloline Leavitt lies just like Trump. She’s as much of a disgrace as the Orange turd is.
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Jill Biden is not mentally ill and RFK Jr is.
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Imagine claiming to be about women’s rights and in the same breath then accusing this clearly capable 27yo of getting the job cause “she’s a ten”. Sad and pathetic.
if I was a leader, I would want my press secretary to be somewhat like a rattlesnake(don’t step on me). Yet again it would seem like trump has found another. well done..
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Who does not see that Alyssa is 110% Trump supporter every argument that she has she is protecting Trump and it doesn’t make any sense but she says she didn’t vote for him. I highly doubt it.
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