President Donald Trump secured another term in the White House in part because of his commitment to rolling back the big-spending, high-tax policies of the Biden administration.
But Trump’s avid critics on the left — including multiple co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” — are still clamoring for a return to the failed agenda of his predecessor.
During a recent episode, Whoopi Goldberg chastised struggling American taxpayers for not gleefully forking over more of their hard-earned money to the government.
As the Daily Caller reported, her rant was in response to Trump’s decision to implement a 90-day pause on most of his “Liberation Day” tariffs:
“A 90-day pause doesn’t mean anything to anyone because people, as you said, are struggling with everyone that they’re living with on a day to day basis. Now you know what we’re fighting against,” Goldberg said. “But I also believe that it’s very important to remind people that now is the time for each and every one of us to suck it up and make sure that we know what we need to take care of. If you’re in an area where the school district is losing, then you got to pay a little more taxes and you gotta help the schools out. If you’re finding that your libraries are falling apart, you have to give more. This is where we come in. We cannot depend on [President Donald Trump’s administration]. This is us. Because we all thought they’re talking about somebody else, no, they’ve been talking about us the whole time and when I say us, I mean all of us.”
The audacity of a multimillionaire lecturing Americans still struggling under the inflation caused by Biden policies she endorsed was not lost on social media users:
Whoopi Goldberg: We should suck it up, and pay more taxes.
And how much is Whoopi worth exactly? pic.twitter.com/1JEDEhF5EW
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 11, 2025
Multi millionaire Whoopi Goldberg says Americans should “suck it up” and pay more in taxes pic.twitter.com/ObpZYF9pYu
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 11, 2025
Whoopi Goldberg, a multi-millionaire, says Americans should "suck it up" and be willing to pay more in taxes.
— Am I Wrong? (@MIWrongg) April 11, 2025
Goldberg recently used her network TV forum to go off on another anti-Trump tangent, this time taking issue with his America-first agenda be essentially apologizing on behalf of the American people.
As the New York Post reported:
“All you countries who watch us, this is not our wish,” Goldberg said as her co-hosts emphatically agreed. “This is not what the American people want. We don’t like it. We don’t like how it’s being – we don’t like how this is being done. That’s why you will hear us kvetching about this as long as we are able, because no one we’re talking to understands what’s going on, and, therefore, when they say America, they’re not talking about us.”
“They are talking about that very narrow band of America that they think they represent, that I think they don’t realize they’re starting to lose,” the co-host continued.
Goldberg and the co-hosts of “The View” sharply criticized Trump’s sweeping tariffs during the conversation. The president announced later on Wednesday that he would be instituting a 90-day pause on some reciprocal tariffs but would increase tariffs on goods from China.
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