Whoopi Goldberg cut off “The View” co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farrah Griffin during a heated debate about school vouchers on Wednesday’s episode of the daytime talk show.
Goldberg, 69, got fed up, sending the show to a commercial break after Hostin, 56, and Griffin, 35, talked over one another.
The tense exchange began while discussing President-elect Donald Trump’s newly announced pick for Secretary of Education, WWE co-founder Linda McMahon.
“I don’t think Donald Trump is just going to abolish the Department of Education,” said Griffin, who worked in the first Trump administration but endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
“I think he’s going to move to invest more on voucher systems in education savings plans,” the chat show co-host added of Trump.
Hostin was having none of it.
“What happens with vouchers, the studies show very clearly, that they fund students that are already attending private schools, so people with money get those vouchers, use those vouchers to pay less for their private schools, and their kids go on to do well,” the left-leaning legal expert said.
“Where do you get the money for those vouchers? You pull the money from those poor schools,” she went on.
Despite attempts to interrupt Hostin, Griffin was unsuccessful.
“Let me get in just to make it a conversation,” she said before pointing out that Hostin went to private school while she attended public school.
As Hostin continued to make her case loudly against school vouchers, with Griffin trying to interject, Goldberg decided to stop the conversation.
“Nobody can figure out what’s being said here right now,” the Oscar winner exclaimed.
Hostin tried to continue, saying she wanted to finish making her point — but Goldberg wouldn’t allow it.
“No. There’s no last thing being said here right now,” the comedian insisted before sending the show to commercial break because “no one can hear what anyone’s saying.”
“We’ll be right back,” Goldberg told the audience.
As the program went to commercial, Griffin could be heard saying, “We haven’t gotten a word in! She’s been talking for three minutes!”
“The View” co-hosts Joy Behar, 82, and Sara Haines, 47, steered clear of the fight.
Goldberg addressed the heated moment after the commercial break and re-opened the hot topic for conversation.
“Welcome back, we’re all here at the table and we’re having a conversation and we’re going to go back to it,” she said.
“Before we do, I just want to say this is the beauty of people who have different opinions. Sometimes it’s messy, sometimes we’re messy.”
Goldberg added, “There’s something in the air. Just know that something is chewing on us.”
