Whoopi Goldberg blasted the “snowflake” reaction of Republicans calling out the Democrats’ protests during Donald Trump’s (longest ever) address to a joint session of Congress.
“All of this snowflake behavior of the Republicans, you can dish it out, but you can’t take it,” Goldberg declared on The View Wednesday.
Her conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin criticized the Democrats for their dissenting moves during the speech—which mostly just included holding up signs and wearing pink. Griffin noted that the actions were being “mocked on the internet,” even by those who also oppose Trump.
During his monologue on The Late Show Tuesday, Stephen Colbert quipped about Dems holding “little paddles” and dressing in “fuchsia,” the latter of which he said is “the kind of bold protest that says, ‘This is a test print and your magenta cartridge is working.’” He held up a paddle of his own that said, “Try doing something.”
One Congressman, Democratic Rep. Al Green, did more than that when he waved his cane and caused a ruckus during Trump’s remarks, ultimately getting escorted out of the chamber by the Sergeant at Arms.
“I don’t think that waving a cane is the optics the Democrats want in this moment,” Griffin said Wednesday. “I don’t think holding up signs which are now just being mocked on the internet—it’s like, who is advising these people?”
“Here’s what didn’t happen,” Goldberg cut in, “Last time someone did that, she was engaged by the president,” Goldberg said, referring to GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who screamed at President Joe Biden during his 2023 State of the Union address and got a response in the moment.
“I’m just saying,” Goldberg continued, “she was not tossed from the chamber.”
Sunny Hostin, who revealed she declined to watch Trump’s speech at all as her own form of protest, said she thinks the Democrats should have supported their tossed out fellow representative.
“When Representative Al Green stood up and said, ‘You don’t have a mandate to take away Medicaid,’ and he was tossed out, I expected the rest of his Democratic caucus…to walk out with him,” Hostin said. “They should have stood with him in solidarity.”
