‘The View’ Hosts Shocked Into Silence As Whoopi Argues In Favor Of Trump Pol­i­cy

Whoopi Gold­berg appeared to stun her cohosts into silence when she put a pos­i­tive — even pas­sion­ate — spin on Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s stat­ed goal of even­tu­al­ly dis­man­tling the fed­er­al Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion.

Dur­ing Tuesday’s broad­cast of the ABC mid­day talk show, Gold­berg — who still refus­es to even say Trump’s name aloud on the air — said that get­ting rid of the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion could be a net pos­i­tive if it served as a cat­a­lyst to get more peo­ple involved and engaged at the local lev­el to make sure kids were get­ting what they need­ed.

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Whoopi Gold­berg shocked The View by sup­port­ing Trump’s con­tro­ver­sial pro­pos­al to elim­i­nate the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, leav­ing the pan­el speech­less as ABC pro­duc­ers abrupt­ly cut to a com­mer­cial break. pic.twitter.com/rM8WvBczxC

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“What we have to always do, regard­less of who you vot­ed for, you still got to pay your rent, you still got to take care of your kids, you still got to take care of your busi­ness,” Gold­berg began, adding, “And maybe some of what’s hap­pen­ing, like you know, they’re try­ing to take apart the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion —”

“Yes,” her cohosts agreed, but then Gold­berg threw them a curve and they all went qui­et.

“Maybe that is a good thing,” she said. “Because maybe it will force us to make sure that our kids actu­al­ly get what they need. Maybe it will force us to go to our states and say, ‘Lis­ten, I want to make sure since you’re tak­ing all this mon­ey from my tax­es, I want to make sure that my kids get exact­ly what they need.’”

“I don’t have to wait for the gov­ern­ment to do it, we can do it!” she declared, effec­tive­ly mak­ing the con­ser­v­a­tive argu­ment for return­ing con­trol of edu­ca­tion to the states and local school boards. “This is now in our hands. This is in our hands, and it’s going to be tough and nobody wants to do it because it’s a b****, but you know what? If it comes down to your sur­vival, this is what you got­ta do, you got­ta take care of what you got­ta take care of.”

Her cohosts remained silent as Gold­berg wrapped up her thought, then piv­ot­ed quick­ly to announce that pro­duc­ers were telling her it was time for a com­mer­cial break.