In a cultural moment so surreal it could double as satire, Monday’s episode of The View delivered something nobody saw coming—not the panel, not the audience, and certainly not ABC’s producers.
In what could only be described as a “Flying Pigs Alert,” longtime Trump critic and queen of daytime leftist commentary, Whoopi Goldberg, stunned viewers by endorsing a Donald Trump policy proposal. And not just any policy—she backed Trump’s idea of abolishing the Department of Education.
HOLY SMOKES: Whoopi Goldberg just did the unthinkable—she backed one of Trump’s fiercest ideas live on The View.
Dismantling the Department of Education.
The panel was stunned. ABC producers quickly cut to commercial.
And no, this isn’t satire.
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No, that wasn’t a glitch in the matrix.
Whoopi’s words weren’t mumbled or cloaked in ambiguity either. They were clear, direct, and, dare we say, grounded in logic. Referring to the potential dismantling of the Department of Education, she said, “Maybe that is a good thing.” Then she doubled down:
“Maybe it will force us to make sure that our kids actually get what they need. Maybe it’ll force us to go to our state and say ‘Listen, I want to make sure, since you’ve taken all this money from my taxes, I want to make sure that my kids get exactly what they need.’”
Cue jaws on the floor.
For those unfamiliar, Goldberg and her colleagues—often dubbed the “lady geniuses” of The View—have made an Olympic sport of vilifying Trump and his supporters. So for Whoopi to stand in the ashes of Biden-era public education and admit that Trump’s proposed decentralization might actually empower parents and states? That’s not just surprising. It’s revolutionary—especially in that studio.
And the reaction? Pure tension. Co-host Sunny Hostin, never one to conceal her disdain for anything right of Marx, reportedly sat in stone-faced disbelief. The studio audience, usually quick to erupt in applause for anything anti-Trump, offered only silence. Awkward, heavy silence.
And just as Whoopi wrapped her truth bomb in a bow, ABC hit the panic button—cueing a commercial break with the subtlety of a fire alarm. She looked off-set and said, “And they’re telling me that we’re gonna be right back.” Curtain down.
Why the sudden cutoff? We can speculate, but one thing is certain: when even The View cracks open the door to a Trump policy and gives it daylight, the cultural tide might just be shifting. Or, at the very least, the failures of the federal education bureaucracy have become too glaring to ignore—even for the most hardened progressive pundits.
