Whoopi Goldberg rebukes Joe Rogan's claims about Trump's old View interview:
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The co-host debunked several of the claims Rogan made about Donald Trump's 2011 visit to the show in his latest podcast episode.
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Whoopi Goldberg is blasting Joe Rogan’s recent claims that Donald Trump’s decade-old visit to The View was a blissful, happy-go-lucky experience for everyone involved.
The podcast host, 57, opened up his almost three-hour-long interview with the former president on Friday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience by specifically mentioning Trump’s visit to The View, which he said occurred around “2015” or “2016.” Goldberg took a moment to publicly debunk several of Rogan’s claims — including the timing of the interview — during Monday’s episode of The View.
“There’s a lot of fake news coming up so we’re going to clear up some of it as it happens,” Goldberg explained, before noting that the appearance that the clip Rogan is referring to is actually from 2011. “Four years before he announced he was running, okay?” She said. “That’s the first thing they got wrong.”
Donald Trump on The View in 2011
Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Trump on 'The View' in 2011. ABC
The show then cut to a clip from Rogan’s interview, where he said that Goldberg and Joy Behar each gave him “a big hug and a kiss,” adding, “They all loved you.”
Goldberg compared Rogan’s retelling to actual footage from the 2011 interview, which sees her staring into the camera with an unenthused expression as the late Barbara Walters introduces “my friend” Trump to the stage. He then shakes hands and kisses the cheek of each co-host, with Behar telling him to hurry up because the interview is “only a five-minute segment.”
Goldberg then zoomed in on her bored expression. “Barbara was her usual polite self as she was with every guest, but did I look warm and fuzzy?” Goldberg asked as her co-hosts burst into laughter. “Was that a warm and fuzzy welcome from moi?”
The actress noted she was civil toward Trump out of respect for Walters. “She said be polite to guests no matter what,” she said. “And, for the most part, I got through. I did it, like I do now!”
However, Goldberg said that Rogan “really messed up” when he said the interview cast Trump in a favorable light. With her head in her hand, she remarked, “Honey? Joe? I think you missed this part.”
Donald Trump on The View in 2011
'The View'. ABC
Whoopi Goldberg on The View in 2011
Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View' 2011. ABC
Goldberg then played another clip from the interview where she called out Trump when he asked to see former president Barack Obama’s birth certificate. “Oh my God! That is just the worst thing,” she said at the time. “Donald, I love you too: I think that’s the biggest pile of dog mess I’ve heard in ages.”
Goldberg then suggested that Trump was saying that because Obama “was Black,” which he denied. “I’ve never heard any white President asked to be shown their birth certificate,” she said in the clip. “When you become a President of the United States of America, you know that he’s American! I’m sorry, that’s B.S.”
The show then cut back to the present-day Goldberg. “Look, this show has allowed all kinds of people to come on it — people we agree with, people we don’t agree with,” she conceded. “I’ve not been a fan of this man’s, I don’t like how he talks to us, I don’t like how he talks to the nation. So I have not really had much to say until he started running for president. Then I could say everything I needed to say — my face said everything else.”
Ana Navarro then asked if Goldberg if she's ever liked Trump, to which she replied, “He’s been in New York forever. He’s a New York person and been a New York character. But being a character on television is a lot different than being the President of the United States.”
And, while The View was taking time to clear the air, Alyssa Farah Griffin also wanted to set the record straight about some of Trump's remarks about her. “I usually don’t respond to him when he comes after me, it feels like punching down, but he keeps lying about me and I do want to correct this,” she said. “He keeps referring to [how] I wrote him secret love letters of some sort. I don’t write love letters to dictators or aspiring dictators like Donald Trump did to Kim Jong Un.”
She noted that the only letter she wrote was a “public resignation letter” directed to his administration. “He’s clearly very focused on this show because we keep calling him out,” Griffin said. “And we’re going to keep doing it.”
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