Whoopi Goldberg defended Joe Biden while he shook hands with invisible people on live television.
Now she's diagnosing Donald Trump as mentally unfit – because he posted memes.
She forgot one thing about herself before going on air Monday.
The Woman Who Missed Biden Completely
On Monday's The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced she could not be convinced there was "nothing wrong" with Donald Trump.
Her evidence?
He posted AI memes on Truth Social.
Trump did post a series of AI-generated images last weekend – himself walking an alien in handcuffs, Space Force command center graphics, memes targeting Democrats including Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
This is the same man who directed the Pentagon to declassify UAP files in February and watched the first batch drop on May 8.
Nine days later he posted the alien meme.
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Co-host Ana Navarro went further, claiming Trump was "falling asleep during the day because he's up all night tweeting out stupid stuff."
Both women missed the part where they spent years insisting that Joe Biden – the man who literally couldn't finish a sentence on live television – was sharp as a tack.
The Standard That Only Applies in One Direction
This is not a new segment.
Goldberg has been running the Trump mental fitness routine all year.
In January, after Trump briefly confused Greenland and Iceland at Davos, she called for the 25th Amendment – live, on air, to applause.
"It's time, it's time, it's time," she said.
In September, after his UN speech, she said she was worried about his competence and ability to lead the country.
In December, she invented a new diagnosis – "Obama and Biden Derangement Syndrome" – because Trump kept crediting his predecessors with problems on his watch.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden was shaking hands with invisible people, whispering at teleprompters, and wandering off stages.
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The same Whoopi Goldberg who now demands mental fitness standards said this about Biden: "If Biden had acted like this, I would have said yeah, take him."
Biden did act like that.
Goldberg never said it.
What 2.5 Million Viewers Are Actually Watching
Here is the number Goldberg's producers don't mention on air.
The View currently draws 2,494,000 viewers – and that number dropped another 2% in the most recent ratings week.
In January, the show lost to The Faulkner Focus on Fox News while Goldberg was out sick.
Harris Faulkner – one host, one desk – beat the entire panel.
The ratings recovered when Goldberg returned, but the overall direction has not.
The audience tuning in to watch Whoopi Goldberg diagnose the president is smaller every single week.
This Is the Pattern Now
Trump posts something outrageous.
The View spends a segment declaring him unfit.
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Their audience cheers.
Then their audience shrinks.
None of this bothers Goldberg, because the segment isn't about Trump's fitness.
It's about her audience's need to hear that the man they hate is broken – so they don't have to process the fact that he won twice, rebuilt the economy, ended the Iran nuclear standoff, and got re-elected in a landslide.
The memes are not the story.
The story is a 70-year-old woman on a fading ABC talk show telling 2.5 million people what they want to hear – and fewer people showing up to hear it every week.
Sources:
- Pam Key, "Whoopi Goldberg: 'You Can't Convince Me There's Nothing Wrong' with Trump," Breitbart, May 18, 2026.
- "Trump posts AI images of himself with buff alien and space lasers in latest Truth Social spree," Yahoo News, May 18, 2026.
- "Trump blitzes foes with social media AI memes," The Washington Times, May 12, 2026.
- "Trump's AI Alien Post Looks Like a Meme, but Here's the Disclosure Timeline Behind It," Thought Catalog, May 17, 2026.
- "Whoopi Goldberg: 'It's Time' to Remove Trump with the 25th Amendment," Breitbart, January 22, 2026.
- "The View Ratings on ABC," USTVDB, April 26, 2026.
- "The View Loses Rating War To Fox Talk Show," IMDB News, February 2025.