Whoopi Goldberg, who lent her voice to Shenzi the cunning hyena in the 1994 Disney classic The Lion King, is lambasting President Donald Trump for the racist AI video he shared that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes and Goldberg as a hippo.
“You know, I don’t know why you feel the need to poop on everything,” The View moderator said on the daytime talk show this morning. “The Lion King is a great kids film full of all kinds of amazing characters. And the idea that you think posting something isn’t really from The Lion King…There are no apes in The Lion King and I just would like y’all at least once, once in your administration, to check your facts, check your stuff. You know, just check.”
Watch the segment below.
Goldberg then noted that the depiction of her as a hippo was misguided not only because she didn’t play one but because hippos are even more lethal than lions (Trump was depicted in the video as a virile king of the jungle). Said Goldberg, “Just be aware – hippos will kill you faster than a lion in the wild. Hippos lay on you and you’re gone. They chase you…If you’re going to make fun of folks, just make your own stuff and admit that you did it.”
View cohost Sunny Hostin also weighed in. “The Obamas live rent free in [Trump’s] head, because he knows he will never be as excellent. He knows he will never have half of the class that they have. He knows that he won’t have the marriage that they have…He will never have the Nobel Peace Prize. He will just never have the swag that President Obama has. He will never have the popularity that President Obama has, and that’s what he wants. He’s just a deeply small man.”