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- Whoopi Goldberg called out The View crew a couple of times on the live show.
- “Hello? Speaking to myself again,” Goldberg said after the crew didn’t play a clip she wanted.
- She later called them out for “rolling their eyes” and wanting her to cut to a commercial.
The View crew left Whoopi Goldberg hanging — and she didn’t let the audience forget it during Tuesday’s live show.
As the cohosts discussed ongoing protests over Donald Trump sending in the National Guard amid ICE deportations in Los Angeles, Goldberg asked the show’s crew to play a video clip to assist one of her points.
“Let me show you guys something. Do you have the thing?” the 69-year-old Ghost and Sister Act star said, looking off camera.
Goldberg attempted to continue, though the show had no footage at the ready.
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“Do you guys have it? Or is it not ready?” Goldberg asked. “Hello? Speaking to myself again.”
The clip then played after the audience laughed, with footage from Philadelphia and Los Angeles playing side by side.
“Can you tell me which one is the riot in Los Angeles and which is the celebration for the Eagles?” Goldberg asked, with conservative cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin quipping, “Philadelphia loves to burn itself down.”
Legal expert Sunny Hostin then asked, “But was the National Guard called in when Philadelphia was burning? Where’s the National Guard?”
Goldberg elaborated on her feelings, noting that “the difference is, there’s an agenda,” before calling for “more empathy” in how the government handles the situation on the West Coast.
“I understand you’re upset, you want to get this done and people want it to happen, but I don’t think anybody — not people who are on this side or this side or the middle — I don’t think anybody’s happy with the way it’s going down,” she said, lamenting that people who “get paychecks and pay taxes” are the ones being targeted.
After the show returned for another Hot Topics discussion, Goldberg again set her sights on the show’s crew, telling the audience, “You see how they’re rolling their eyes at me? They want me to go to break” before throwing the show to another round of ads.
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Goldberg regularly ribs the crew of The View for asking her to go to commercial break during the broadcast, and has particularly called out producer Brian Teta for playing music over her on a March 2025 episode.
“The politicians are going to take a while, but I think it’s beginning because you’re starting to hear them say, we’re voting on this bill that, had we done this, a couple of…” Goldberg said, trailing off on her point before turning in her chair to look at Teta, asking: “You like to play that music, don’t you?”
The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.
