For years, Donald Trump has weathered investigations, lawsuits, indictments, congressional hearings, and political rivals. But nothingânothingâhas gotten under his skin quite like two people who simply refuse to shut up: Jimmy Kimmel and Whoopi Goldberg. And in 2024â2025, they didnât just criticize himâthey obliterated him on live television, triggering months of public meltdowns and late-night rants.
The spiral began in October 2024, a week when the country was watching Hurricane Milton tear through Florida. While millions braced for impact, Trump stood on stage at a rally in Reading, Pennsylvania⌠ranting about daytime talk show hosts. Instead of addressing the disaster, he attacked The View, calling the hosts âreally dumb peopleâ and singling out Whoopi Goldberg in particular.
Then he dropped a line so bizarre it immediately backfired:
âI have hired Whoopi to work for me as a comedian. Her act was filthy, dirty, and disgusting.â
If Trump thought the insult was a one-day headline, he underestimated the women he was dealing with.
The next day, The View opened with Christina Aguileraâs âDirrtyâ blasting across the studio. A direct clap-back. A direct reference. A direct hit.
And then Whoopi Goldberg walked out like a woman ready to drop receipts from orbit.
âI was filthy. Iâve always been filthy,â she said proudly. âYou knew that when you hired me.â
Then, with a smirk that could cut steel, she turned directly to the camera:
âYou hired me four times. Four. Times.â
The audience roared. Social media detonated.
Trump had just publicly complained about a performer⌠whose act he repeatedly paid for at his own casino.
Goldberg didnât simply defend herselfâshe dismantled him.
She reminded the country that Trump had always watched The View, no matter how loudly he denied it. After all, he couldnât stop referencing it at ralliesâeven during a natural disaster.
âHow dumb are you?â Whoopi repeated again. The line immediately went viral.
But the takedown wasnât over.
Sunny Hostin, calm and surgical, delivered one of the most devastating on-air blows of the year.
âDonald Trump, thank you for personally telling so many lies and committing so many alleged crimes. You give us material every single day. You help us do our jobs.â
Then came the kill shot:
âI may not have spent as much time in a courtroom as you have.â
The studio exploded.
The internet exploded.
Even late-night comedians stopped mid-bit to replay the clip.
But Jimmy Kimmel?
He wasnât about to let Whoopi have all the fun.
Throughout late 2024 and early 2025, Kimmel had been counting Trumpâs false statements on air. Not for political pointsâjust for comedy. According to one tally, Trump was averaging more than 50 false claims per day. Kimmel joked that most people donât even make 50 statements a day, much less 50 lies.
âYouâd have to start lying the second you wake up!â he said on air.
Trump completely lost it.
What followed was an online meltdown, late-night rage-posting, and frantic attempts to clap backânone of which landed.
But the deepest wound came from the past.
In October 2024, Joe Rogan claimed that when Trump appeared on The View in 2015, the hosts loved him and hugged him.
Whoopi Goldberg didnât just deny itâshe brought receipts.
Live on air, she played the real clipâfrom 2011, not 2015âshowing Trump pushing the racist birther conspiracy theory. In the footage, Whoopi sits beside him, glaring with pure unfiltered disbelief.
When Trump questioned Obamaâs birth certificate, she lost her patience completely:
âThatâs the biggest pile of dog mess Iâve heard in ages!â
It wasnât scripted.
It wasnât rehearsed.
It was raw, unfiltered truth.
By the time 2025 arrived, Whoopi and Kimmel had done something politicians, prosecutors, and two impeachments never fully accomplished:
They shattered Trumpâs public composure.
They triggered days-long meltdowns.
They forced him to respond to jokes instead of shaping national conversations.
And worst of all for him?
They provedâlive, on cameraâthat he watches every second.
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