Whoopi Goldberg, veteran actor of a string of 80s comedy hits and Star Trek: The Next Generation, lost her cool on an episode of The View after the announcement of Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the Presidential race.
The furious actress and talk show host ranted at length about the party “pushing out” the President.
Biden’s announcement that he was caving to the pressure to end his re-election bid came via a surprise written statement over the weekend of July 20th, and was accompanied by Biden’s hearty endorsement of his Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him at the top of the Democrat Party’s presidential ticket.
Goldberg was not impressed, and says that the move sends a “bad message” to older Americans. It tells people that it’s “horrific” to be “over a certain age.” She implied that it was a stupid message, and offensive, and said that she was “bored” with hearing it. It would have been better, she said, had “my Democrats” dealt with Biden’s impairment behind the scenes instead of doing it out in public with everyone “endlessly” talking about it.
Alyssa Farah Griffin, one of Goldberg’s co-hosts and a former Trump aide who represents Republican women on the ABC panel show, shot back. The entire process, she believed, should play out in public because the Presidency is a public job, and it is different and more demanding than any other job.
Goldberg wasn’t impressed. She objected to people above “a certain age” being made to feel as if they’re “old” and “doddering.” She voiced her belief that such messaging is “disrespectful.”
Goldberg, who won an Oscar for her turn as con-artist-turned-genuine psychic in the 1990 tear-jerker Ghost, also had harsh words for West Virginia’s former Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who has indicated he might attempt to usurp Harris’s presumptive nomination. She addressed him directly, saying “We don’t want you” and urging him to “stay wherever you are.”
