Well, here we are again—another day, another meltdown on The View. This time, Whoopi Goldberg is at the microphone, ramping up her routine with a new twist: she’s claiming that, if Donald Trump gets reelected, he’ll target interracial marriages just to deport non-white spouses.
You heard it—Whoopi, who still can’t bring herself to say Trump’s name out loud, is now accusing him of planning to dismantle mixed-race families in some dystopian deportation plot. According to her, he’s “out there” enough to swap out one spouse for a different “more suitable” partner. It’s practically a new spin on reality TV.
Joining Whoopi for the alarm bells was MSNBC’s own Mika Brzezinski, showing up to echo that Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden over the weekend was nothing short of a “Nazi-type” gathering. The rationale? There was a Nazi rally in that very spot back in 1939, so clearly, Trump supporters must be reincarnating those same sentiments today. Brzezinski went as far as saying these are “the final hours”—a bit of Armageddon imagery to encourage everyone to turn out and vote. You’d think she was narrating a trailer for an end-of-days movie.
Whoopi claims Trump is going to break up interracial marriages and redistribute the white spouses: “He’s going to deport and you put the white guy with someone else”
“The man is out there!” she declares. pic.twitter.com/luXpWjjqC9— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 28, 2024
And the drama didn’t end there. She implored the audience to see women as the “beacon” of this election cycle, implying that this group—who apparently need stilettos sharp enough to stab fascism in the heart—will be the ones to stand against Trump. Brzezinski even referenced her family’s immigrant background, getting emotional as she issued her “dire warnings.”
There’s an odd irony in these tirades, isn’t there? We’re talking about two people, Goldberg and Brzezinski, who’ve built their careers in one of the freest media landscapes in the world, where expressing your opinion—however wild—is not only protected but also rewarded with prime airtime. Yet here they are, foretelling Trump as the big bad boogeyman of freedom while enjoying the ability to critique him on national television without fear of being silenced. Quite a dramatic jump from criticism to cries of fascism and white nationalism.
However, this is how Trump was treated before he won in 2016.
Remember when The View absolutely loved Trump? pic.twitter.com/TuHXxVa4E4
— Defiant World (@DefiantWorld) October 25, 2024
There’s something to be said for the constant hammering on these apocalyptic talking points. It starts sounding less like analysis and more like a carefully crafted panic button meant to keep people on edge. Imagine trying to reach swing voters by painting the guy as a dictator, a demagogue, and, now, the supposed destroyer of biracial marriage.
It’s the kind of scare tactic that might actually drive people to tune out because, at a certain point, even die-hard viewers can only handle so much alarmism. And yet they continue to deny that their increasingly alarming talking points are radicalizing people. Just a note: it’s not the right-wing Republicans who are shooting at the president.
Goldberg and Brzezinski seem convinced that the country is just one election away from a complete descent into fascism. Yet, what’s most fascinating is how easily they overlook the irony: if they’re right, that level of control over the nation would require a far more powerful government—and a more repressive one—than we’ve got. A government, in fact, that no one on the right is pushing for.
