Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed President Donald Trump had “deballed” the United States.
Partial transcript as follows:
GOLDBERG: We’re in the middle of so many different confrontations, and we have people — I just, I have no faith, I have no faith in Kash Patel. I have no faith in Pete Hegseth. I have no faith in the people running anything. I don’t believe in anybody running this country right now. And that’s what makes me nervous. It’s like, okay, well, who is going to take responsibility — let’s, you know, the CDC right now. No one is running the CDC. We have this potential virus and they keep saying, no, there’s nothing to worry about. It’s like, eh, I don’t want to hear that from you because you don’t know if there’s nothing to worry about.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Especially now that we’re not involved with the World Health Organization.
GOLDBERG: We have been…deballed as a nation, I feel.
HOSTIN: We’re isolationist.
SARA HAINES: Castrated?
GOLDBERG: I thought my description was…
HAINES: Deballed was lovely, I just didn’t know if you meant castrated.
GOLDBERG: It’s the same thing. I don’t have them, but I know it’s the same thing, but the idea that no one is in charge freaks me out.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think America still has its basketballs. I think we have some very struggling leaders right now and we deserve better.
GOLDBERG: She went to breasts because she’s a new mom. She’s nursing.
HAINES: I think breasts might serve us better in the universe than balls anyway.
GOLDBERG: Yes, more women. I just think we’re on the world stage, I mean, I’m watching him come down those stairs and I’m seeing all the pomp and circumstance and I think-
HOSTIN: In China?
GOLDBERG: Yeah. I’m watching the leader kind of walk with his head this way kind of going, I gotta be here with him. I have to be, he’s here, I gotta be respectful, but I’m not buying any of this. And that’s how people feel around the world feel, I think. They just don’t believe anything we’re doing because nothing we do seems to have any weight.
HOSTIN: It seems deeply un-serious.
GOLDBERG: It’s deeply unserious, it’s deballed, whatever it is. It’s not what America should be seeing and how we should be seen
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