Whoopi Goldberg didn’t mince her words when it came to her opinion on Pete Hegseth and the Democrats heading to Congress on Tuesday’s (November 10) edition of The View.
The first “Hot Topic” of the day centered on Hegseth being embattled as a Republican member of Congress introduced articles of impeachment in the House of Representatives against him. After reviewing parts of Hegseth’s speech about the subject, The View‘s cohosts weighed in, and Goldberg saved her comments for Hegseth directly.
First, she reviewed some of the most controversial incidents that she finds Hegseth to be responsible for, saying, “The military dropped bombs on boats in the Caribbean; they claim they were smuggling drugs, [but] many call the killings illegal, given they were targeting civilians who did not pose an imminent threat of violence. He let the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln be deployed for a record 10 months, leading to deteriorating conditions and eight suicide attempts. Let us not forget also about Signalgate.” She then offered a pointed message for Hegseth, saying, “Time for you to go, man.”
After the rest of the cohosts weighed in on Hegseth and the impeachment move against him, Goldberg got the last word on the matter and once again sent a signal(gate) to Hegseth himself: “I’m tired of seeing our military beg for what they need and politicize and politic and politicizing them. That’s not what they’re there for. So no, sir, you gotta go. I’m sorry. You gotta go.”
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In the second “Hot Topic” discussion, the cohosts reacted to reports of newly elected and reelected Democrats reportedly having disputes over who should serve as party leaders of both the House and Senate, and, once again, Goldberg broke the fourth wall to deliver her message directly to the subjects involved.
“This is my two cents. I know ya’ll feel like this. I don’t want to hear this from you right now. I want to know, all of you Democrats, what are your plans for the first 100 days? I don’t care if you’ve been there forever or you just got there. What are your plans? May I just throw some stuff out for a second? Because I want Democrats to stay focused, to bring down gas and grocery prices, restore funding for SNAP benefits, reunite the families that have been separated, reinstate all the government workers who were illegally fired, and undo the damage that DOGE did. Then I will listen to what you want and how you want it. But right now, when you all get in there, you better get in there with a plan. Don’t be. I don’t want to hear this,” she said. “We put you in there to clean house, to make sure that the government works the way the people want it to work. I don’t want to hear all this infighting because then you become the distraction, and then you become no better than the Republicans were. So just get your stuff together, all of you.”
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