Sometimes you can’t say anything.
After a long debate with co-host Meghan McCain on Tuesday, Whoopi Goldberg paused for three seconds to process and then managed a simple but measured answer: “OK.”
The sentiment resonated with viewers at home, and a clip of the moment quickly recorded over 1.6 million views, as it recorded Whoopi’s name on the list of trending Twitter topics.
McCain’s comments came during a discussion of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Sunday night interview with Oprah Winfrey and British TV personality Piers Morgan, who stormed “Good Morning Britain” on Tuesday after being called to I doubt Markle’s revelations about her mental health struggles. .
McCain took the conversation in a new direction. She spoke about the American Revolution and how she loves visiting Mount Vernon in Virginia as “the birthplace of our founding fathers,” explaining that she doesn’t want to defend the monarchy because she’s a 100% red-blooded American who celebrate freedom anyway I can ”. He then discussed a generational divide in Britain between the way young and old look at the monarchy and went on to encourage “all Americans to visit Mount Vernon and see why monarchies are stupid.”
“The American experiment is the way to go, and if we have two American women – Meghan Markle and Oprah Winfrey – who finish alone what George Washington and our revolutionary counterparts did, that’s all there is to it,” she concluded.
Goldberg offered an “OK” before moving on to an ad, saying, “I think we’ll talk more about that when we get back.”
Although the show’s group is known to be arguing, tense moments, especially between Goldberg and McCain, have often increased online in the past.
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