“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg stared straight into the camera Wednesday to lecture White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on how she supposedly got her job because of “wokeness.”
During her first press briefing Tuesday, Leavitt explained that the Trump administration’s temporary freeze on federal grants, which has since been blocked by a federal judge and was later rescinded, aimed to prevent agencies from funding “wokeness,” diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs or other initiatives the administration opposes. The day following the briefing, Goldberg raged over Leavitt’s statement that there would be no “wokeness” permitted in the federal bureaucracy or agencies, saying that the ideology granted women the opportunity to join the workforce.
“I would like this young lady, this is her first job, I would like her to do a little homework,” Goldberg said. “Because she said something yesterday that really pissed me off. And that was [when] she said ‘There will be no wokeness here.’ Let me explain something to you, because without that wokeness, you may not have that job because women were not invited to that table. Women were not invited to many tables in this nation. The reason we fought and busted our behinds to make sure that you didn’t have to worry about this. And now, to hear you talk about it and to hear anybody talk about the wokeness, the wokeness was put in place for a reason.”
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Goldberg claimed “wokeness” liberated women and racial minorities to ensure the U.S. went from being a “man’s world” to a “person’s world.”
“So please, please stop using that phrase like you know what you’re talking about because you don’t understand what you’re saying,” Goldberg continued. “You’re saying about yourself, ‘Hey, that’s a terrible thing to be.’ It’s not a terrible thing to be, that’s why we fought. That’s what we were fighting for so you could stand in that podium so that [former White House press secretary] Karine Jean-Pierre could stand at that podium. So women of all kinds of colors and ilks, wherever they came from, whatever their belief system was, they had the opportunity to bust down that door.”
Without evidence, co-host Joy Behar suggested that Trump only gave Leavitt the job because of her physical appearance.
Leavitt is the youngest serving White House press secretary at the age of 27 and held her first press briefing Tuesday without reading from a binder. During the first briefing, Leavitt announced that seats in the briefing room normally reserved to staff will be given to outlets and independent journalists who do not hold an official place in the briefing room and confirmed that the mysterious drones spotted in New Jersey were authorized to fly as “research.”
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