Whoopi Goldberg Makes a Bold Statement About Working on 'The View'

Whoopi Goldberg has been a mainstay on The View for 17 years, but that doesn’t mean she wants to stay on the show forever.

On Nov. 12, the EGOT winner spoke candidly about her job on the talk show, detailing under which scenario she’d no longer work for the ABC program.

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The conversation started when the panel discussed a recent social media post from congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. In the video, she asked people who voted for Donald Trump for president, but for democratic candidates on the rest of the ballot, to provide insight into their voting choices.

The responses varied, but a common thread among those who answered seemed to be that people were looking for perceived Washington outsiders who they believe care about the working class. Goldberg then turned the topic over to her co-panelists, who chimed in with their thoughts.

“I still don’t believe that this was about the price of eggs, because if it were about the price of eggs and the price of gas, I mean Trump didn’t address those during his rally, he didn’t address those during his campaign,” said Sunny Hostin.

Alyssa Farah Griffin then argued that those voters likely weren’t looking at macroeconomic trends, but rather their day-to-day lives. “If you don’t have money in the stock market, if you don’t have a fancy retirement account and you’re just trying to get by, people know that they had more money five years ago. They probably think Trump’s a jerk, they might not like how he talks about people, but they’re voting on ‘I’m working harder than I ever have been and I’m still not getting ahead,’” she said.

Goldberg chimed in on the subject, saying, “I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me, too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, okay? So, I'm a working person, you know? And my kid has to feed her family, and my great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it's hard out there.”

Goldberg continued, praising Ocasio Cortez’s outreach, but drew a line with the responses to the N.Y. representative's question. “We talk to people all the time who say, 'this is what's bothering me.' But, the thing that's bothering everybody should not be the thing that puts 85 percent of other people in danger. I think that's what we're saying,” she concluded, wrapping up the segment.

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