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Whoopi Goldberg missing from The View as viewers call for her to be fired over 'idiotic' Iran comments
Whoopi Goldberg has been missing from The View since last week after her outrageous comments comparing life as a black American to living in Iran.
The Oscar-winning actress sparked a firestorm during a segment on Wednesday in which co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin praised American freedoms, saying, 'The U.S. in 2025 is not as bad as Iran in 2025.'
Goldberg, who is worth an estimated $60 million, immediately cut in: 'Not if you're black.'
'Listen, I'm sorry. They used to just keep hanging black people,' she remarked, telling Griffin 'there's no way I can make you understand it.'
'It is the same.'
The comments earned widespread condemnation, including calls for Goldberg to be fired.
'Whoopi Goldberg's comparison between being Black in America and living under Iran's authoritarian regime is deeply misguided,' Dr. Sheila Nazarian, a plastic surgeon whose family fled Iran in 1985 when she was six years old, told Fox News Thursday.
'[It] dismisses the brutal realities faced by millions of Iranians.'
Goldberg would go on to appear on Thursday's episode of The View, before being bashed by Bill Maher on his show. He asked the Democratic party to 'do something' about The View after playing the widely ridiculed clip on Friday, a day that Goldberg typically takes off.
'You're a multi-millionaire black woman on national television saying this?' one TikTok user pointed out as well. 'That alone proves the difference between America and Iran.
After facing days of criticism, The View co-host Joy Behar sought to explain Goldberg's conspicuous absence.
' She's in Italy accepting an award for her book Bits and Pieces, so she will be out this week,' Behar said on Monday's show.
Goldberg will not be back on the show before its annual weeklong summer break next week, Behar added.
She will return on July 7, sources told the Daily Mail, along with her fellow co-hosts.
The news comes a month after top brass at ABC News and its parent company Disney were said have a sked the ladies to dial back their complaining about Donald Trump.
ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic and Disney CEO Bob Iger had each made the requests separately, The Daily Beast reported.
The daily talk show has been filled with criticisms of the commander-in-chief and his policies, with mostly kind words for Democrats.
It also comes weeks after ABC News took extreme measures by firing of longtime correspondent Terry Moran for attacking the Trump administration in a post on social media.
At the time, a rep reiterated the post did not reflect the views of ABC News.
In December, ABC was forced to fork over $15 million to settle a libel suit brought by after Moran's longtime colleague, George Stephanopoulos, made erroneous on-air comments about Trump.
On Wednesday's episode of The View, Goldberg questioned whether the many human rights violations perpetrated by the Iranian regime was worse than the treatment of some groups in America.
'Let's just remember, too, the Iranians literally throw gay people off of buildings, Griffin said.
'They don't adhere to basic human rights.'
'Let's not do that,' Goldberg shot back, 'because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car.'
It isn't the first time Goldberg has come under for her on-air comments since replacing longtime moderator Rosie O'Donnell back in 2007.
In 2022, Goldberg argued that the Holocaust was 'not about race,' leading her to apologize to the Jewish community.
The remarks earned her a two-week suspension.
