Whoopi Goldberg has a concept about what’s actually occurring with the incoming administration, and she or he laid it out in no unsure phrases on Thursday’s (November 21) version of The View.
After as soon as once more encouraging audiences to not “panic” over the newest nominations to Donald Trump‘s cupboard within the first “Scorching Subject” section, the following topic up for dialogue was the woes of social media. Specifically, the panelists talked concerning the flight of liberal customers from Twitter over to Bluesky.
About that, Goldberg mentioned that the explanation so many left-leaning persons are leaving Twitter is the toxicity of the location, which is now run by Trump ally Elon Musk.
“The opposite aspect, I feel, has pushed individuals away as a result of it’s not simply discourse. It’s nasty name-calling, coming after your loved ones, and ‘I’m going to do that to you.’ And I don’t assume that anybody ought to need to take that from anyone,” she defined.
The secondary motive why Goldberg thinks persons are leaving Twitter, together with non-MAGA Republicans, is the truth that Musk is its CEO … and should have some outsized affect on Trump himself.
“I imagine Elon Musk is the precise vice chairman,” she mentioned. “Sure, I imagine that. As a result of I feel JD Vance, he’s form of an interim. However I imagine that Musk is the actual precise vice chairman. He’s making selections, he’s doing issues. So I feel, ‘Why doesn’t he have to surrender X?’ I’m musing.”
Musk will not be legally eligible to be vice chairman, after all. In the US, natural-born citizenship is a requirement for the position, and he’s from South Africa.
Elsewhere within the dialog, Sara Haines issued a “PSA” that social media customers must supply any info they discover on the assorted websites, including, “While you see one thing that actually pisses you off, you must triple examine that one.” And Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed that disinformation is rampant and everybody ought to fact-check issues they see on social media, however she additionally expressed concern concerning the exodus from Twitter. “I fear we’re all going into our personal echo chamber,” she mentioned. “The fitting goes to remain on X after which the left is all going to be on Bluesky. How can we attempt to discuss to others?”
Pleasure Behar mentioned that the rampant misinformation is perhaps why The View is such a scores success. “I feel that’s why individuals like our present. As a result of they know that we’re checked by ABC Information.” She additionally decried the state of the media now, saying, “Right here we went from Walter Cronkite, principally, to this man, Joe Rogan, who believes in dragons.”
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