Whoopi Goldberg on Wednesday declared that she was “really pissed” off after Karoline Leavitt dismissed “wokeness” during her first briefing as President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary. Leavitt — while remarking on the Trump administration’s since-rescinded federal funding freeze memo — said the “pause” would mean no more funding for “transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.

Fans of The View were left wondering where Whoopi Goldberg was during the Tuesday, January 21 episode, just one day after Donald Trump 's inauguration.

Whoopi Goldberg tore into Karoline Leavitt over a comment she made denigrating "wokeness" — which Goldberg says is what gave Leavitt her job at that podium.