Whoopi Goldberg did not hold back on Wednesday, responding to Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) derogatory remarks about “childless” Democrats.
Vance’s comments, which resurfaced from a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, labeled several Democratic lawmakers, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, as “a bunch of childless cat ladies.”
Goldberg, a co-host on “The View,” addressed the issue a day after Buttigieg criticized Vance on CNN.
She argued that Vance’s comments are alienating voters and are out of touch with many Americans’ experiences and choices.
“There are people who have chosen not to have children for whatever reason,” Goldberg said. “There are people who want to have children who cannot, how dare you?”
Goldberg stated that both Harris and Buttigieg had their personal lives to live, pointing out that Harris is a stepmother to two children with her husband, Doug Emhoff, while Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, adopted twins in 2021.
“You never had a baby. Your wife had a baby … So you know nothing about this,” Goldberg retorted, directing her comments at Vance. “And how dare you. And women, you heard how he thinks of you. This is not good for you, JD.”
Goldberg also highlighted a historical figure to underline her point: George Washington.
“Like Kamala, he raised Martha’s children. He raised them with her,” she said, reminding viewers of Washington’s role as a father figure despite not having biological children.
Goldberg concluded her impassioned response by underscoring the values of empathy and collective responsibility in American society:
“Children are very important to us as a nation, but what is more important … we pay taxes not for the stuff that is for us but how we help other people. This is a country that has always said, ‘Listen, you’re going to give some, I know you gotta go.’ But this is what we do, we pay on things that are not for us but it makes it better for everybody else, that’s the American way.”
