Netizens are calling out Whoopi Goldberg for her hypocrisy! The View host lately delivered a press release evaluating herself to the working-class/middle-class individuals of America who’re struggling to satisfy ends amid the rising inflation. “I respect that individuals are having a tough time. Me too. I work for a dwelling,” stated stated within the present on November 12, following Donald Trump’s presidential election win.
“If I had all the cash on the earth, I might not be right here, OK? So, I’m a working particular person,” she added. She additional spoke about her household’s struggles, elaborating on how her children handle their households within the present financial local weather. “My child has to feed her household. My great-granddaughter needs to be fed by her household. I do know it’s exhausting on the market,” Goldberg stated.
However netizens have been fast to slam the EGOT winner, calling her assertion “tone deaf” and out of contact. “Whoopi Goldberg claims she’s a ‘working class American’ and that her household presently is aware of the struggles of affording groceries…She has a internet value of $45 MILLION,” a consumer wrote on X (formally Twitter).
“She’s bought to be one of the crucial tone-deaf celebrities I’ve ever seen. I actually don’t understand how anybody genuinely watches this woman besides to mock her,” one other particular person remarked. Whereas a consumer quipped that if Goldberg is working class then the remaining can be ravenous class.
One other claimed that “overpaid actors” equivalent to her are out of contact with actuality therefore making irrational statements. “When is the final time she went right into a grocery retailer lol,” one other wrote. This assertion of the actress comes after her dig at grocers.
On Thursday, November 7, Goldberg mentioned the topic of meals inflation and made a demeaning remark about grocery retailer homeowners. “Your pocketbook is unhealthy, not as a result of the Bidens did something. Not as a result of the economic system is unhealthy. Your grocery payments are what they’re as a result of the oldsters that personal the groceries are pigs,” she stated on the time.
The netizens equally took to social media to slam the Sister Act actress for concentrating on and degrading a neighborhood. “She’s slandering all grocery store homeowners. She’s despicable,” a consumer claimed on X.