Whoopi Goldberg rants against Obama for telling Democrats to ‘toughen up’

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg complained on Tuesday that former President Barack Obama called on Democrats to “toughen up” as they retaliate against President Donald Trump.

Obama scolded his own party for “navel-gazing” and “whining” about Trump rather than properly standing up to his policies during a private event with donors on Friday, according to The New York Times. In response, an exasperated Goldberg said that Obama and billionaire Mark Cuban, who has also been critical of the Democrats’ reactions, are “pointing the finger at the wrong person” when they should be criticizing their own messaging.

“So, let me remind everybody who was out on the frontlines marching when we had the giant marches that went on,” Goldberg said. “It was the people. The people went out. They were not navel-gazing, it was older people who were saying ‘why are you touching my Social Security?’ It was not people whining, it was about people saying ‘why are you taking these rights from my child when my child was born here?’ This has not been about Democrats lying back, this has been about y’all. This has been about y’all, because their messaging was always the same. Democrats have been angry about what this man tried to do the last time, and they’re angry this time. So, with much due resect to [Obama and Cuban], I believe you are pointing the finger at the wrong person when you say Democrats.”

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Goldberg also said the Democrats’ messaging has resonated with Americans, pointing to the No Kings protests that dispersed across the U.S. on June 14. Co-host Ana Navarro misleadingly claimed that Trump is deporting American citizen children rather than criminals, although these children accompanied their illegal immigrant parents who were deported.

“And yeah, okay, so some of us say that Donald Trump sucks. He does suck! And it feels good to say it,” Navarro said.

Obama said during the event that he is “surprised” by the silence and intimidation coming from Democrats, the Times reported.

“It’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Obama said. “What I have been surprised by is the degree to which I’ve seen people who, when I was president, or progressives, liberals, stood for all kinds of stuff, who seem like they’re kind of cowed and intimidated and shrinking away from just asserting what they believe, or at least what they said they believe.”

Co-host Sara Haines then criticized Democrats for lacking any comprehensive plan to fix immigration rather than rioting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrests of illegal immigrant criminals. Over 500 protesters resorted to violence on Thursday in response to ICE conducting a raid on a marijuana farm in Camarillo, California, where one individual appeared to fire a pistol at federal law enforcement.

“It would be a ripe time for some elected Democrat to come forward with a secondary plan that isn’t just march against ICE agents and sanctuary cities,” Haines said. “People want common sense solutions and no Democrat is coming out and saying ‘this is a decades-long problem, it crosses all administrations, but here’s what I’m proposing.’ I’ve heard none of that. And that is what I would encourage people in the Democratic Party to do because midterms come up in another year-and-a-half.”

Rioters in Los Angeles threw Molotov cocktails, rocks and other objects at law enforcement and lit vehicles on fire in retaliation against the ICE raids in the area. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a June 26 press release that agents arrested some of the “worst of the worst” criminals, some of whom committed murder, fentanyl trafficking, and sexual assault.

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