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Fox News Host Makes Distasteful Whoopi Goldberg Joke, Black Internet Claps Back

The View host had some thoughts about the Trump Administration's reported plan for $5,000 "baby bonuses" for new mothers.

Fox News is at it again. On Wednesday, Whoopi Goldberg, host and moderator of โ€œThe View,โ€ gave her thoughts about one of the Trump administrationโ€™s reported plans to address declining birth rates in this country, and some hosts on the cable news network were not happy about what she said.

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On the episode, the EGOT-winner said that she is โ€œincredibly insultedโ€ by that proposal. โ€œClearly they donโ€™t know how womenโ€™s bodies work,โ€ she said to her co-hosts on the talk show. โ€œI donโ€™t know what $5,000 is supposed to do.โ€

Julie Banderas, a host on Fox Newsโ€™ โ€œOutnumbered,โ€ was offended by Goldbergโ€™s comments for some reason. She asked the audience on her show, โ€œIsnโ€™t she lovely?โ€ after playing the clip from โ€œThe Viewโ€ earlier that day, and then continued saying itโ€™s โ€œsuch a shame sheโ€™s not a mother.โ€

She added, โ€œI feel like she would have been the best role model. Thank god she did not do IVF, because I donโ€™t think sheโ€™d find somebody to actually physically impregnate her, is what Iโ€™m trying to get at there.โ€

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Naturally, the internet was not here for Banderasโ€™ comments, in part because they were incredibly unprofessional, but more that they were factually inaccurate. As many social media users were quick to point out, Goldberg not only has a daughter, but she also has grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

One user on X, formerly known on Twitter, asked, โ€œAre they dumb? Whoopi has a child and grandkids.โ€ Another wrote in a post, โ€œidc that itโ€™s 2025 and public discourse has deteriorated everywhere but talking like this on national cable tv should still get you fired.โ€

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Others were quick to point out that all it takes is a quick google search to find that Goldberg is mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. To make matters worse, no one else on the Fox News panel corrected Banderas after her comments. Later in the episode, she awkwardly attempted to clarify, saying that she was โ€œjoking.โ€ She added, โ€œShe has one kid, but, I mean, I donโ€™t know. We donโ€™t know much about that person.โ€

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