Whoopi Goldberg tells Meghan McCain to ‘stop talking’ during heated exchange on ‘The View’
Another day, another showdown on “The View.”
Whoopi Goldberg appeared to hit a breaking point with Meghan McCain on Monday’s episode.
The spat began during the aptly named “Hot Topics” segment at the top of the show. Liberal co-host Joy Behar butted heads with conservative panelists McCain and Abby Huntsman over the comparison between Trump officials refusing to testify in the impeachment hearings and former Vice President Joe Biden saying he also wouldn’t go under oath.
Co-host Sunny Hostin pointed out that many of the Republicans who voted to convict Bill Clinton on perjury charges are the same ones willing to acquit President Donald Trump for “clearly wanting to use a foreign government for his own personal benefit to impede our very democracy.”
“That is the height of hypocrisy for this Republican-led Senate,” Hostin said.
McCain responded that her job as a “View” co-host, as well as an ABC News political correspondent, meant that she is on the show not to “litigate the ethics” of impeachment but to analyze the politics of the situation. Before McCain could finish her statement, Hostin interjected, saying that she was not speaking about McCain, but about the Republicans in the Senate.
McCain pushed back, telling Hostin to let her finish, but Whoopi Goldberg, typically the voice of reason on the panel, wasn’t having it. As Goldberg tried to change subjects, McCain talked over her, complaining, “Do you want to hear a conservative perspective on this show ever?”
“Girl, please stop talking,” Goldberg responded. “Please stop talking right now.”
McCain, visibly shocked, responded with what some social media users have likened to a temper tantrum. “No problem,” McCain insisted, rolling her eyes. “I won’t talk the rest of the show.”
“I’m OK with that,” Goldberg responded, which incited murmurs from the audience. “I’m OK with that. If you are going to behave like this.”
McCain continued to insist she was just trying to provide a conservative perspective while Goldberg ignored her controversial co-host and cut to commercial break.
McCain regularly clashes with the more liberal members of the show and has received backlash for talking over her co-hosts in the past.
The fiery exchange caused “Whoopi” to trend Monday on Twitter with an overwhelming majority of users praising Goldberg for putting her foot down.
McCain appeared to respond to her haters in a pair of tweets Monday afternoon. “Pointing out things that are true is part of my job even if it angers people and even if it’s politically inconvenient,” she wrote in part. “Pretending half the country doesn’t exist won’t make them disappear. The culture war is real.”