Donald Trump called Whoopi Goldberg a “demented and “disgusting” person during his rally speech in Reading, Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening, days after Goldberg co-hosted Vice President Kamala Harris on The View . In typical Trump fashion, the former president used time during his rally to attack Harris and other opponents, this time focusing on those who recently hosted the vice president on their talk or radio shows. Trump told rallygoers in the key swing state that Harris’s interview with The View on Tuesday was “stupid” and featured “really dumb people” – but went one step further to bash Goldberg, a longtime co-host and outspoken Trump critic.
“I did a walk-on for Whoopi Goldberg now she says ‘I refuse to mention his name,’” Trump said referencing the cameo he did in Goldberg’s 1996 spots comedy film, Eddie . “You know what, politics can do strange things to demented people,” he added. The former president claimed at the time Goldberg told him he was “so great” and begged him to be part of the movie.
He claims she told him “If you ever ran for president, you’d win.” More recently, Goldberg has used words like “ moron ,” “unhinged” and “dictator” to describe Trump. She notoriously vowed to never say Trump’s name aloud and often refers to him as “you-know-who.
” Trump told his audience that he once hired Goldberg to perform comedy but she was “filthy, dirty, disgusting” and used vulgar language that caused pe.
