The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg quickly apologized after insulting House Speaker Mike Johnson during a live broadcast, Wonderwall.com can report.
During the May 26 installment of The View, Goldberg dubbed the President Donald Trump loyalist a “moron” while discussing a stalled war powers resolution tied to the ongoing conflict with Iran.
The segment’s guest, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, was arguing that lawmakers should force a bipartisan vote aimed at ending the conflict.
“We’ve been bringing a resolution and forcing a vote in the Senate every single week to end the war, and in the Senate last week, for the first time, we got enough Republicans, so that we now have a majority. The House would have a majority as well, but because they don’t want to embarrass the president, the House has decided to cancel a vote on a resolution that would put both the House and the Senate on the same side, ending the war with a bipartisan vote,” Murphy told the panelists.
“So, listen, I think the House should do the right thing,” he continued. “They should schedule that vote. Republicans and Democrats will join together in saying, ‘This war is a disaster,’ and it will put additional pressure on the president to end this war, get gas prices down and start thinking about Americans.”
Goldberg retorted, “He’s a moron,” referring to Johnson almost three minutes into the show’s segment with Murphy.
However, she immediately appeared to regret the remark and apologized seconds later. “I’m sorry that came out of my mouth,” she said. “I take it back.”
This isn’t the first time Goldberg has publicly walked back criticism aimed at a Trump ally.
Earlier in May, she suggested Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was “OK” with apartheid-era policies in South Africa.
Shortly after saying that, she walked back her comments. “Let me just say this first because I know [it] will have upset people. I don’t know that he was an apartheid apologist,” she said at the time. “I don’t know anything about him, except that I’m not a fan, so I take it back.
“I don’t know that he was there. I wasn’t there,” Goldberg added. “I don’t know if he was there. So I’m saying, ‘OK.’”
The FCC vs. ABC
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, opened an investigation into ABC. By: MEGA
Goldberg’s mea culpa comes as ABC and The View continue facing scrutiny from the FCC over political content aired on the daytime talk show.
Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission FCC Chairman Brendan Carr opened an investigation into the network’s broadcast license and reportedly questioned whether a 2022 ruling exempting it from the “equal time” rule should be upheld.
ABC released a statement that said the FCC’s actions threatened “to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech” and made it appear that there is “viewpoint discrimination and retaliatory targeting” taking place, allegedly due to criticism of the president.
“Some may dislike certain — or even most — of the viewpoints expressed on The View or similar shows,” the network’s statement continued. “Such dislike, however, cannot justify using regulatory processes to restrict those views.”