“The View” co-host Ana Navarro acknowledged the “tense” moment between her and co-host Whoopi Goldberg during the liberal talk show’s interview with Vice President JD Vance on her podcast Wednesday.
Navarro said during her show, “Bleep! with Ana Navarro,” that Goldberg was annoyed with her as she tried to press Vance on something else before Goldberg — who moderates “The View” — broke for commercial.
“I also want to say there was like a tense moment between Whoopi and I where I wanted to get in a question,” Navarro said. “I wanted to get him — as we were talking about the racism of this administration precisely on that topic — I wanted to get him to answer whether Michelle Obama being called a man by a UFC fighter at the White House Sunday night is something that he, JD Vance, would condemn.”
“We were running out of time,” she continued. “Whoopi was annoyed that I was trying to push him on that as we were trying to wrap and get to commercial break. These things happen on live TV.”
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Goldberg scolded Navarro as she tried to get a final question in with Vance during the Tuesday interview, saying, “Don’t do that!”
Navarro said during her podcast, “Let me just say Whoopi Goldberg and I are very close friends. I lean on her for so much. I count on her for for advice and these things happen on live TV. I have never taken it outside of the studio and neither has Whoopi. Believe me, we are good.”
The co-hosts of “The View” pressed Vance on several topics, including Jeffrey Epstein, immigration policy, his past criticism of President Donald Trump and more.
Goldberg accused the Trump administration of stigmatizing people of color.
“What did Black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color? And you know how hard it is. You have folks of color in your family,” she said to Vance. “So when you … see, you know, things, the Emmett Till stuff coming down, or them doing all kinds of removal of information of Black heroes, how do you — how does that sit with you?”
“What exactly are you talking about?” Vance asked, asking for “her actual point.”
They both then began to speak over each other as Vance asked for specific examples.
Goldberg did not provide context for what “Emmett Till stuff” was, but she may have been referring to monuments like the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, sites designated as national monuments by former President Joe Biden, which may be at risk amid the Trump administration’s DEI budget cuts. Emmett Till was a Black youth who was lynched at age 14 in Mississippi in 1955.
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“In a lot of the museums, just, there’s so many, I just, I, you know,” Goldberg said as she failed to name specifics. “Where they’re taking down the actual history that happened in this country. Slavery happened. All kinds of stuff happened, and it seems that it has been very easy for this administration to remove that and also to denigrate Black folks who have worked their behinds off to get this American dream.”
