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Whoopi Goldberg snapped on cohost Ana Navarro during a tense moment from The View‘s JD Vance interview.
“Ana, God, please!” Goldberg shouted after Navarro attempted to continue a question before a commercial break.
Goldberg turned toward Navarro to scold her before the show cut away, telling her, “Don’t do that!’
The Hot Topics table felt like anything but a cohesive community Tuesday on The View, as the cohosts welcomed controversial Vice President JD Vance for a contentious interview about his new book, Communion.
All six View cohosts — including Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and former Donald Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin — united on the air for the high-profile interview, with Goldberg stepping in to cut off Behar as she attempted to ask follow-up questions in the moment. Goldberg’s growing frustration came to a head near the end of the interview (watch in the video below), after the show needed to cut to a commercial break, but Navarro kept pushing on a question.
“I’ve got to, I have to go to break,” Goldberg tried to say as Navarro pressed Vance on an issue related to recognizing Black history in America. When Navarro wouldn’t stop speaking, Goldberg raised her hands to her face and shouted, “Ana, God, please!”
Still, Navarro kept speaking. “We have more with Vice President JD Vance when we come back,” Goldberg said to the camera, before quickly turning to Navarro to scold her: “Don’t do that!”
Earlier in the interview, Goldberg stopped Behar from asking a follow-up question, and the 83-year-old comedian looked visibly annoyed as she raised her own hand to brush off the attempt to stop her.
Whoopi Goldberg and Ana Navarro clash during JD Vance interview on ‘The View’
Credit: ABC
In the interview, the cohosts asked Vance about his book, ICE raids, deportations, the Jeffrey Epstein files, and more. Goldberg asked him about the treatment of people of color under the current administration — whom Goldberg said has removed mentions of Black history at various locations around the country.
“I’m telling you, we celebrate Black history, we celebrate all American history in this administration. You guys might be skeptical of this, but I’m telling you it’s true,” Vance attempted to respond, amid the aforementioned Goldberg-Navarro moment.
Vance appeared on the show amid a strong back-and-forth between The View cohosts and current government officials, with the current panel of cohosts long speaking out against Vance and Donald Trump. The cohosts have criticized the administration for everything from its handling of ICE raids and deportations around the country, to Goldberg chastising Vance in July 2024 over his controversial “childless cat ladies” quote.
In response to various criticisms, the White House has issued several statements to Entertainment Weekly in which representatives slammed the cohosts over their political perspectives. Statements included calling Behar a “talentless hack,” labeling Navarro “dumb,” and lashing out at Goldberg and Hostin for being, as a rep said, “idiots.”
The Federal Communications Commission, headed by Trump loyalist Brendan Carr, has even launched an inquiry into what it has alleged is The View‘s violation of a long-standing “equal time” rule stipulating that political candidates be given equal airtime if interviewed during their respective election cycle. Carr’s FCC has alleged that The View went against this rule when the panel interviewed Texas senate candidate James Talarico, though entertainment-style talk shows have typically been exempt from this rule in the past.
The View network ABC’s parent company, Disney, filed a legal petition for declaratory ruling against the FCC, alleging that its actions “threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech, both with respect to The View and more broadly.”
JD Vance on ‘The View’
Credit: ABC
Vance’s appearance marked the third time a sitting vice president has visited The View in the show’s history, following Joe Biden’s 2014 appearance while he was Barack Obama’s VP, with Kamala Harris appearing on the air in 2021 while serving as Biden’s VP.
The View has welcomed a wide range of political guests to the table for interviews in recent years, including Harris, Biden, Hillary Clinton, and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as inviting conservative guest cohosts to join the panel, including MAGA supporter Savannah Chrisley, lifelong Republican Sheryl Underwood, religious conservative (and former permanent View panelist) Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina.
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Many — including members of the government, such as the aforementioned Carr, and ex-cohost Meghan McCain — have observed that, in their opinion, the show has a left-leaning perspective and doesn’t include enough conservatives at the table.
“I’m gonna say something that’s a little nasty,” McCain said on a recent episode of her Citizen McCain talk show, speaking about Griffin, who replaced McCain following her 2021 departure from the talk show. “The person they replaced me with is a joke. She is in no way representative of conservative women. It’s been a wildly disappointing experience for me to see what legacy I helped do during the four years there while my dad battled brain cancer and I had not one, but two miscarriages while I worked there.”
The View airs weekdays on ABC.
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