Watch: Whoopi Goldberg Attempts to Walk Back Vicious Anti-ICE Comment After Thinking It Over During Commercial Break

Nowhere has the modern Left twisted reality more brazenly than in its rhetoric surrounding illegal immigration — and on Monday, The View offered a textbook example.

During a segment on ABC’s daytime talk show, co-host Whoopi Goldberg leveled a sweeping and inflammatory accusation against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, smearing federal agents while misrepresenting President Donald J. Trump’s immigration agenda.

The discussion centered on last week’s fatal shooting of anti-ICE activist Renee Good in Minneapolis. Despite publicly available video showing Good obstructing an active ICE operation, refusing repeated lawful commands to exit her vehicle, and then turning her car toward an agent before accelerating — prompting the agent to fire in self-defense — much of the Left has attempted to recast the incident as a morality play, portraying Good as a victim and law enforcement as villains.

Goldberg went further than most.

“You said you were going after the bad guys,” Goldberg said in a clip posted to the social media platform X. “That’s what you said: the violent criminals. And what does it turn out? The violent criminals seem to be in the agency.”

As Goldberg spoke, several co-hosts nodded in agreement while the studio audience applauded before the show cut to commercial.

The statement was false on multiple levels. President Trump has never limited his immigration enforcement agenda to only the most violent offenders. Throughout the 2024 campaign and now into his second term, Trump has consistently pledged to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history — restoring national sovereignty and enforcing immigration law as written.

More egregiously, Goldberg’s comment amounted to a blanket slander of ICE agents, whom she falsely characterized as “violent criminals” for carrying out lawful federal duties.

Perhaps realizing the legal and ethical implications of her remarks — or perhaps prompted by producers or network attorneys — Goldberg attempted to walk back her statement after the commercial break. The result was a strained clarification that stopped well short of an apology.

“Before we go on, I — before folks gather around and say, ‘Oh, she’s accusing all of the folks at ICE of being criminals” — That is not what I’m doing,” Goldberg said in another clip posted to X. “And just so I’m clear, it feels sometimes that there is no one watching the henhouse. OK? So before y’all start blowing it into all kinds of other stuff, just know that it’s nuance speaking.”

Apparently, the real problem is not reckless rhetoric, but viewers who fail to appreciate the show’s supposed “nuance.”

This is hardly new territory for Goldberg. In past controversies, she has bristled at forced corrections. This time, however, the attempt to soften her remarks came across as more absurd than defiant.

The deeper issue extends well beyond one daytime talk show. Democrats, aided by media figures like Goldberg and her fellow co-hosts, have spent years conditioning their most ideologically captive audiences to believe that the men and women enforcing federal immigration law are the real lawbreakers.

Until that narrative collapses, Americans should expect more on-air “clarifications,” more manufactured martyrs — and, tragically, more violence driven by political misinformation.