Free Speech Threatened on 'The View,' Says Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg spoke out on Tuesday’s edition of The View, saying there’s a target on the show’s back.

If The View disappears from the air, Goldberg said, it’s because the show’s hosts lost their right to free speech because of the Trump administration’s actions.

“What I really want, what I want more than anything, is I want them to stop fooling around with my right to say what I feel,” she said to applause.

“I don’t like being threatened,” Goldberg said. “I don’t like being — I don’t like people running up on me. You don’t like what I say? This is America. I grew up here, and the one thing I always knew is I had freedom of speech, and every time, every time somebody says, you know, I don’t like what they said, so I’m shutting down PBS.”

The left-leaning hosts are frequent critics of President Donald Trump and his administration.

Goldberg’s comments may be a reflection of the recent hearing on PBS and NPR federal funding held by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an outspoken Georgia Republican.

“I don’t like what they do — those are broad strokes which have nothing to do with reality,” Goldberg said. “Because the fact of the matter is, just because you don’t hear me say it doesn’t mean I don’t feel it.”

“I remember years ago, I said to the audience, watch this space,” Goldberg’s co-host Joy Behar added. “When they tell us to keep quiet, you know we’re in trouble. Wait for it.”

Watch the segment in the video below at the 8:59 mark.