"The View" stars walked out to Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" in reference to Trump calling Goldberg "filthy dirty" and "demented" at a recent campaign event.
The Whoopi Goldberg War Room has launched defensive maneuvers after Donald Trump slammed her and the ladies of The View at a recent campaign event.
Following Trump's tirade Wednesday against the daytime talk show and its recent interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, the 68-year-old EGOT winner and her cohosts headed out to the Hot Topics table while soundtracked by Christina Aguilera's signature hit in reference to the former president's wild words.
"So, we walked out to 'Dirrty' by Christina Aguilera, because it's one of the words that You-Know-Who used when he was talking about me, in particular, but he was talking about us at his rallies," Goldberg said at the top of the episode, before the show played a clip of Trump calling the panelists "really dumb people" before recalling hiring Goldberg for a comedy event at one of his casinos, before he said he called her act "filthy dirty" and "disgusting" before telling the crowd he'd "never hire her again."
"I was filthy, and stand on that fact. I have always been filthy, and you knew that when you hired me. I headlined, babe, at your casino, which I might've continued to play had you not run it into the ground," Goldberg alleged on Thursday morning's live broadcast. "How dumb are you? You hired me four times."
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Goldberg then asked, "You didn't know what you were getting? How dumb are you?" before legal expert Sunny Hostin weighed in on Trump's words.
"Donald Trump I want to thank you for personally telling so many lies and committing so many alleged crimes and providing us with material on a daily basis. You help us do our jobs, and I'm so appreciative," she said, before pointing out Trump's ongoing legal troubles -- including being convicted in May on 34 counts related to a hush-money scandal involving porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Hostin continued, adding that she "may have not spent as much time in a court room" as Trump, and said he's "always welcome to come" to the show to answer some of the cohosts' questions for himself -- "if sitting so close to a prosecutor won't make you nervous," she finished.
Conservative panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin, who previously worked for Trump's communications team at the White House before resigning and speaking out against him, speculated that "he's always been triggered by women when they call him out," and said that's the reason she thinks he's talking about The View stars. She also said that his rallies are becoming "exhausting" for his supporters, citing "the more people hear the crazy, the meanness, the name-calling" as contributing to his base being "just over it" ahead of the November election.
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Finishing the segment, Goldberg pointed out the silliness in Trump talking about The View cohosts instead of Hurricane Milton's path of destruction in Florida.
"This is what irritated him, not what's going on. Hurricanes, all kind of stuff going on in our country, but we irritated him to the point where he had to admit he does watch the show, something we all knew," Goldberg said. "So when you hear people say, 'I don't watch that show,' they're lying!"
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"I did a walk-on for Whoopi Goldberg, now she says, 'I refuse to mention his name.' Politics can do strange things to demented people. Now, I've hired Whoopi to work for me as a comedian before this, a long time ago, and I went. I'm not particularly shy about what I hear. Her mouth was so foul. Every word out of her mouth was like, the F-word," he told the crowd. "We had to leave. She was so filthy dirty, disgusting, half the place left. I said I'd never hire her again. But, she was so dirty, every word was filthy dirty, and then I left."