Calling final week’s Trump-Zelensky-Vance Oval Workplace showdown “one of the vital embarrassing issues I’ve ever seen,” The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg made no secret of which facet she’s on.
“I do stand with you, Zelensky, since you’ve been preventing, your nation has been preventing,” Goldberg stated on at this time’s View, including, I stand with y’all, as a result of many nations in our world have a behavior of getting into and invading different nations. And all of us have stated, for the previous at the least 100 years, we don’t like that. We don’t need to do this. We don’t need to be that. And right here we’re. Who are we?”
Goldberg added that she although the Oval Workplace assembly, through which Trump and Vance successfully switched sides from supporting Ukraine to supporting Russia, was “chilling.”
The View‘s different cohosts additionally weighed in, together with Ana Navarro, who stated, “Initially, I feel this was all staged, and this was all ready, as a result of the minute Zelensky will get off a automotive, Donald Trump makes a difficulty of how he’s dressed. Nicely, you recognize who else confirmed up throughout a battle wearing uniform throughout World Struggle Two? Winston Churchill…and no one stated something.
“I feel that may be a pink herring,” she continued, “what he’s carrying, as a result of he’s representing folks struggling, as a result of he’s representing a rustic at battle, as a result of over 100 hospitals have been destroyed, over 700 colleges have been destroyed, over 100 church buildings have been destroyed. 1000’s and 1000’s and 1000’s of Ukrainian lives have been destroyed and misplaced, and for them to be choosing on the way in which he was dressed was one of many worst, most embarrassing, horrifying, mortifying moments I’ve ever seen within the Oval Workplace.”
Navarro additionally directed feedback to different Republicans. “I simply need to have a phrase for Lindsey Graham, who I’ve recognized for many years, and for Marco Rubio, who I’ve recognized for 30 years. I’m so embarrassed and ashamed. Marco has spent his total life and profession speaking in opposition to tyranny, speaking in opposition to 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.”
Stated Sunny Hostin: “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 any query this was a setup, as a result of a vp usually doesn’t converse in these moments with out the approval of the of the President. So President Trump knew that JD Vance was going to do this. And I feel it actually took a flip when, when Zelensky, 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 wished to embolden Putin, they usually did.
Goldberg then re-entered the dialog, saying, Right here’s the factor that everyone can do: for those who help Ukraine, say it out loud. Say it out loud.”
“I help Ukraine,” stated Hostin.
