‘The View’s Whoopi Goldberg Fires Back At Trump For Wanting More “White” Immigrants: “They Don’t Want To Be Under A Dictatorship”

President Donald Trump‘s recent rally in Pennsylvania was all the talk on this morning’s episode of The View, with the co-hosts slamming him for wishing the United States had more immigrants from Norway and Sweden than Afghanistan and Somalia.

During his rally in Mount Pocono, PA on Tuesday night (Dec. 9), Trump repeated an ethnic slur he denied using in the past, announcing his “permanent pause on third-world migration — including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.”

While Trump previously denied referring to those countries as “shitholes” during his first term, he later went on to question why the United States “only takes people from shithole countries.”

“Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden?” he said in a clip played at the start of The View.

When the screen returned to the Hot Topics panel, Whoopi Goldberg looked into the camera and said, “They see you as president and they don’t want to come here.”

Speaking to Trump’s offensive rhetoric, Goldberg later added, “This is who you are, this is who you’ve always been, and this is who you are. And this is why all the people you would like to have come here are not gonna come here. Because they don’t want to be under a dictatorship, which is what you’re doing.”

Joy Behar, for her part, questioned why people would want to leave their cushy lives in Norway, where they receive “high-quality universal healthcare” and the gun laws are strong, noting that Norway only had 22 gun homicides in 2020, while the U.S. had 20,000 gun homicides that same year.

“Why would they come here?” she asked, while Sunny Hostin chimed in, “He wants certain immigrants. He wants white immigrants, he wants white Afrikaners.”

Adding to her previous point, Goldberg pointed out that other countries have warned their citizens against traveling to the United States.

“A lot of these countries that he wants to come have said, ‘America has problems. These are not countries you want to go to,’” she said. “We are now on people’s lists to avoid.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.