As the 2024 election gets closer, Donald Trump and his allies are posing one question: are you in a better situation today than four years ago? However, to Whoopi Goldberg, host of “The View”, it’s a “stupid” and “disrespectful” question.
To start the day’s Hot Topics, the show aired a compilation of Trump’s allies posing that same question during media appearances, followed by the Biden campaign’s response — which was a video reminding people about the country's state 4 years ago, deep into a deadly pandemic, with Trump mentioning people dying “is what it is.”
The hosts mostly praised Biden for strongly responding, before sharing their own viewpoints. For Whoopi, there are a couple of key signs that things have only deteriorated.
“Black people, we were not in this insanity of trying to figure out why our history is no longer welcome in the educational system,” she said. “Women were realizing something was happening. If you were coming from another country, if you were coming to this country to find a better life, you were not welcome. Listen, it wasn’t a good time for lots of people.”
But the thing that irritated her most was indeed the fact that, four years ago, the country was in the midst of a pandemic that was killing thousands of people, and the Trump campaign actively tried to undermine the response to prevent that.
“All you have to do to ask ‘are we better off than we were’; ask the thousands of people who are no longer here,” she snapped. “That’s how you know if we’re better off. Ask their families, are they better off without their loved ones? What a stupid question. It’s a stupid question, and disrespectful to the American people, in my opinion.”
You can watch the full segment from “The View” in the video above.
