Whoopi Goldberg belongs to the rising checklist of people that completely cannot stand Karoline Leavitt. No more than two weeks after she hit pay grime by being appointed as Donald Trump’s press secretary, Leavitt ruffled plenty of feathers when she framed the president’s federal funding freeze as a crackdown on progressive initiatives that had been championed throughout Joe Biden’s time in workplace. 

“So, what does this pause imply?” Leavitt defined in her first press briefing again in January 2025. “It means no extra funding for unlawful DEI packages. It means no extra funding for the ‘Inexperienced New Rip-off’ that has value American taxpayers tens of billions of {dollars}. It means no extra funding for transgenderism and ‘wokeness’ throughout our federal forms and companies.” Particularly, her anti-wokeness remarks brought about Goldberg to name her out on nationwide tv and lecture Leavitt on how precisely she’s benefiting from these rules Trump is combating towards.

Throughout an episode of “The View,” Goldberg stated she was angered by Leavitt’s remarks dismissing the very values that helped girls like herself get a seat on the desk. She identified how, if not for that “wokeness” she was talking of, Leavitt won’t have been taken significantly and supplied the press secretary position within the first place. “As a result of […] girls weren’t invited to many tables on this nation — the rationale we fought and busted our behinds to ensure you did not have to fret about this,” Goldberg informed Leavitt. “And now to listen to you discuss it … The wokeness was put in place for a cause.” Nevertheless, it is not simply Goldberg who seems to have sturdy emotions towards the presidential staffer.

Whoopi Goldberg’s co-host Pleasure Behar additionally slammed Karoline Leavitt throughout that viral episode of “The View.” Whereas Goldberg merely questioned Leavitt’s anti-wokeness remarks, Behar went on the offensive and recommended that Leavitt solely received her press secretary job as a result of Donald Trump thinks she’s engaging. “I believe that she’s most likely been put in there as a result of, based on Donald Trump, she’s a ten,” Behar stated (through Sky Information Australia). Sadly, the remark left a foul style within the mouths of a number of the viewers, who blasted Behar for being “overtly sexist” towards Leavitt.

“I imply, if a Republican stated that a few Democrat … then most likely the world would collapse about their ears,” political commentator Ben Shapiro argued in a video he shared on Fb. He additionally questioned the irony of Behar criticizing somebody’s look whereas coming from an business obsessive about magnificence herself. “Pleasure Behar is from Hollywood, the place actually everybody will get solid — apart from [her] apparently — based mostly on the idea of some type of bodily attraction,” Shapiro added.

Whereas the presidential aide herself has but to reply on the time of this writing, the drama sparked rumors a few lawsuit occurring between Leavitt and “The View” over feedback made about her throughout the stay broadcast. A YouTube channel claimed that Leavitt is looking for $800 million in damages, whereas one other stated she’d already received the lawsuit. Nevertheless, there isn’t any proof to recommend {that a} lawsuit has been filed in any respect regardless of what’s been reported by these (unverified) sources.