Whoopi Goldberg had a message for Donald Trump after he was booed at the World Cup.
“I thought it was really good for people in charge of this country to see what it was like to be on the world stage with people from other countries and get … not disrespect. Nobody disrespected. To be respected by people who you said terrible things about. It made me happy to see you have to deal with it,” she said on Monday’s (July 20) episode of The View.
Goldberg went on to add, “You only hurt yourself when you try to hurt the immigrant community. It’s just the way it is.”
Goldberg’s comments came at the end of the segment, in which the cohosts discussed their reactions to the World Cup’s final match, including a star-studded halftime show, and celebrated the win by Spain.
Ana Navarro noted, “Almost a full fourth of the players that played here — so there were like 1,248 players; 25% of them were born in a country different than they were playing for, yes — so what you saw there for 39 days is a celebration of immigration. So many of those players were … born in refugee camps and had to go through some incredible conditions and situations in order to get to where they were.”
Navarro also said of the audible negative reaction to Trump, “I don’t know how this guy thinks that he’s not gonna get booed in a stadium that’s full of Latin Americans and Spaniards. When I was looking at the Argentine team, and they’ve got all these tattoos, and they’re going up on stage to get their second-place medals, I thought to myself, ‘If these guys weren’t on this field, if they were standing in front of a Home Depot, Trump’s ICE would be racially profiling them and getting them.’”
She also pointed out Trump’s recent comments on Spain, including cutting off trade with the nation. “Let me just tell you some of the things he has recently said about Spain: ‘We don’t have to trade with them. I don’t want to do any more trade with them. Make it immediately. Don’t even talk to them. They’re hopeless, bad people, and Spain is a loser.’ He said [that] in March. No, they’re not. They are winners.”
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