{"id":454,"date":"2025-09-06T18:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:32:12","slug":"donald-trump-takes-aim-at-whoopi-goldberg-canada-doesnt-want-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Takes Aim at Whoopi Goldberg: &#8216;Canada Doesn&#8217;t Want You&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has lashed out at\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u00a0moderator\u00a0Whoopi Goldberg\u00a0in response to a doctored meme that portrayed her as saying she was moving to Canada &#8220;for sure this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oscar-winning\u00a0<em>Ghost<\/em>\u00a0star Goldberg has publicly criticized the former president for a number of years. When Trump made an appearance on\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u00a0in 2011, Goldberg told him that the &#8220;birther&#8221; conspiracy theory he was spreading at the time about then-President\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0was &#8220;the biggest pile of dog mess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Years later, as\u00a0<a class=\"multivariate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/republican\" data-sys=\"1\">Republican<\/a>\u00a0Trump ramped up his ultimately successful 2016 White House run, Goldberg said that she had questions about remaining in the U.S. if the former star of\u00a0<em>The Apprentice<\/em>\u00a0was elected into office. At the time, Trump sparked furor when he\u00a0described Mexican immigrants as rapists\u00a0and drug dealers.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, erroneous social-media posts have been shared depicting Goldberg as having declared her outright intentions to move to Canada over Trump.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"imageBox\">\n<div class=\"innerBox ar23-innerBox\"><picture class=\"mapping-embed\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i2391823\" class=\"mapping-embed imgPhoto lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2391823\/whoopi-goldberg-donald-trump.jpg?w=1200&amp;f=c6a7e550bb34418ec3b02d84ca19d3f7\" alt=\"Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Trump\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/800;\" \/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption ar23-caption\"><span id=\"short-cap-description\" class=\"cap\">From left: Whoopi Goldberg is pictured on May 6, 2024 in New York City; Donald Trump speaks on May 10, 2024 in New York City. The former president has slammed the Oscar-winner in response to&#8230;<\/span>\u00a0<button id=\"read-more-cap\">More<\/button>\u00a0<span class=\"credit ar23-credit\">Gary Gershoff\/Getty Images;\/Victor J. Blue &#8211; Pool\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Sunday night, one such post was shared on Trump&#8217;s Truth Social platform, showing an image of Goldberg that had been edited to make her look larger. The image included the caption: &#8220;I&#8217;m moving to Canada for sure this time!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It has been posted on other social-media platforms over the years, and was sent by a Truth Social user to Trump. He\u00a0<a class=\"multivariate\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112432104858669303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a>: &#8220;Canada doesn&#8217;t want you Whoopi, NOBODY DOES!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0has contacted representatives of Goldberg and Trump via email for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Days after Trump was elected in November 2016, Goldberg clarified her position on remaining in the country during an episode of\u00a0ABC&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of folks have said they were leaving over the course of these last couple years if Trump got elected. And, once again, people assume that that&#8217;s what I [said],&#8221; Goldberg said, adding that she was &#8220;incorrectly lumped&#8221; in with such people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"fullCode\">\n<div class=\"innerBox\">\n<div class=\"code\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheView%2Fvideos%2F10153941921871524%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;So, this is gonna be the second time I&#8217;m clearing this up,&#8221; Goldberg said. &#8220;So, here&#8217;s a clip of me reading the transcript of exactly what I said the first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A clip of Goldberg on an episode of\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u00a0from March 1, 2016, was then played, in which she quoted herself as previously saying: &#8220;You start pointing and saying, &#8216;This person&#8217;s a rapist and a murderer;&#8217; it p***** me off, because I&#8217;ve been part of when they just use blanket statements about Black people, or when they use blanket statements to talk about white people or women or any other group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s America. I don&#8217;t want it to be America. Maybe it&#8217;s time for me to move,&#8221; Goldberg added, reading out her previous statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now see, if you want to be mad at me, you want to make jokes, get your facts straight,&#8221; Goldberg said in the March 2016 episode as she ripped up her cue card.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just to be clear, I wouldn&#8217;t leave this country for him to p*** all over, for any reason. I&#8217;ve been here since the late 1700s,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in November 2016, Goldberg again said that she was &#8220;not leaving the country that I was born and raised in. My family spent years trying to get the vote, and trying to do all the things that we as Americans are allowed to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re allowed to protest. We&#8217;re allowed to stand up and say we disagree. Whether we agree or not, it&#8217;s OK. But you don&#8217;t get to get to tell me that I&#8217;m going. You don&#8217;t get to make that decision for me. I&#8217;m staying!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As presumptive GOP presidential nominee Trump vies for a second term in an expected matchup with President\u00a0<a class=\"multivariate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" data-sys=\"1\">Joe Biden<\/a>,\u00a0Goldberg has continued to criticize him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u00a0in January 2024 with former Representative\u00a0Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican who is also a critic of Trump, Goldberg said: &#8220;If [Trump] ever gets in again, we&#8217;ll never have anymore elections\u2014there will be no more. He will stop it, and he&#8217;s very clear about that. He wants to be dictator for life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has lashed out at\u00a0The View\u00a0moderator\u00a0Whoopi Goldberg\u00a0in response to a doctored meme that portrayed her as saying she was moving to Canada &#8220;for sure this time.&#8221; Oscar-winning\u00a0Ghost\u00a0star Goldberg has publicly criticized the former president for a number of years. When Trump made an appearance on\u00a0The View\u00a0in 2011, Goldberg told him that the &#8220;birther&#8221; conspiracy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}