It started like any other week on The View, with Whoopi Goldberg wielding her usual brand of liberal smugness, delivering yet another “truth bomb” she thought would land like a mic drop. But this time? That mic exploded in her face. In a week packed with gaffes, controversy, and a jaw-dropping suspension, Goldberg found herself at the receiving end of one of the most savage tag-team takedowns in recent memory—from none other than Bill Maher and Greg Gutfeld.
Let’s rewind the tape.
Whoopi, the self-anointed queen of daytime talk, decided to go on yet another moral crusade. This time, she dropped a wildly tone-deaf comment comparing the Trump administration’s values to the Taliban. “Are these values really much different than the Taliban’s?” she asked. It was the kind of hyperbole even Twitter would side-eye. For someone who’s spent years lecturing America from behind a coffee mug, the backlash wasn’t just predictable—it was seismic.
And that was only the beginning.
Goldberg, whose reputation already took a hit after a previous Holocaust gaffe (she claimed the Holocaust wasn’t about race on a show literally obsessed with race), was suspended for two weeks by ABC. But while she was licking her wounds, Maher and Gutfeld were preparing the roast of the century.
Enter Bill Maher, the unfiltered oracle of HBO.
Maher, no stranger to controversy himself, used the moment to blast the idea that Goldberg’s suspension was “karma.” “There’s no such thing as karma,” Maher declared with the trademark smugness only he can pull off. “Life is random. When a big game hunter gets trampled by an elephant and then eaten by lions, that’s not karma—it’s hilarious.”
But he didn’t stop there. He tore into Goldberg’s logic, sarcasm dripping from every word. Her remarks on race and cancel culture? Maher dismantled them with precision. He scoffed at the notion that The View—a show that glorifies opinion over fact—could be considered a platform for serious discourse.
“It’s called The View, not The Facts,” Maher sniped. “The problem in America is that there’s one accepted view, and everyone else is expected to shut up and sit down.”
He wasn’t done roasting.
Whoopi’s tendency to lecture the audience as if she’s some enlightened sage finally caught up with her. Maher pointed out the irony of her delivering liberal monologues to an audience that’s just trying to survive another coffee-filled episode of daytime chaos. “She acts like the moral compass of The View, but half the time it feels like Hell’s DMV,” he joked.
Then came Greg Gutfeld.
If Maher was the scalpel, Gutfeld was the sledgehammer. The Fox News host wasted no time turning Whoopi into a punchline. He’s never been one to pull punches—and he wasn’t about to start now. With rapid-fire jokes and gleeful mockery, he shredded her sanctimony like confetti at a roast.
His response to Whoopi’s Trump-Taliban comparison? “The Taliban should sue,” he deadpanned. “They ran out of Hitler analogies, so now it’s Trump and the Taliban. That’s progress, I guess?”
Gutfeld mocked the liberal hypocrisy with the enthusiasm of a stand-up comic who just stumbled onto comedy gold. He ripped into Whoopi’s infamous “swastika” comment about Trump hats, highlighting just how out of touch the rhetoric on The View has become. “You can hate Trump, but hating half the country? That’s not progressive, that’s dangerous.”
While Maher brought logic and biting wit, Gutfeld brought the meme-worthy one-liners that social media devours. His specialty? Making Goldberg look not just wrong—but ridiculous.
And make no mistake: the internet noticed.
Clips of the takedown spread like wildfire. Viewers—many of whom had long grown tired of The View’s one-note virtue signaling—celebrated the rare moment when someone (or two someones) finally clapped back. For once, it wasn’t just conservative Twitter applauding—it was centrists and liberals alike who felt Whoopi had taken it too far.
To add salt to the wound, even The View’s own audience started to question the show’s credibility. After all, how many times can one of its hosts make jaw-droppingly ignorant comments without repercussions? And no, a temporary suspension after a Holocaust comment doesn’t exactly scream accountability.
But perhaps the most painful part for Goldberg wasn’t the suspension, or even the nationwide embarrassment—it was watching two fellow entertainers, one of them a prominent liberal, completely dismantle her credibility.
Maher and Gutfeld may be on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but when it came to Whoopi, they were perfectly aligned: enough is enough.
Their message was clear. Just because you sit at the head of a daytime talk show table doesn’t mean you’re above criticism. And just because you wrap your opinions in progressive language doesn’t mean you’re always right.
For Goldberg, this may have been just another week in the hot seat. But for the rest of America, it was a rare moment of truth—and perhaps a turning point in how we view the self-righteous elite who think daytime TV gives them a license to preach without consequence.
So next time Whoopi reaches for her soapbox, she might want to remember this roast. Because in the age of viral takedowns, even an EGOT winner isn’t safe from getting burned.
