Whoopi Goldberg says Trump’s Iran actions are to distract from Nancy Guthrie case in bizzare claim



“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s actions in Iran were a method of distraction to keep public attention off the Jeffrey Epstein files and the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.

The co-hosts discussed the latest in the war with Iran, particularly the surge in oil prices and gas prices.

“It’s nutty as hell,” Goldberg said. “And you’re right, every day it’s something new. And it’s, you know, I was thinking about it yesterday, because I thought, ‘Well, OK, why haven’t we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what’s going on there? Why haven’t we — why have we not been talking about the Epstein files?’ Because that’s still there.

“This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.”

The co-hosts seemed to agree, with Sunny Hostin adding, “It’s a very ‘wag the dog’ feeling.”

Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for over 30 days.

Nancy Guthrie has been missing for over a month. Facebook/Savanah Guthrie

The elder Guthrie is believed to have been kidnapped from her home in the Catalina Foothills in northern Tucson around 2:30 a.m. Feb. 1.


Here’s the latest on Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom


Goldberg compared living in the U.S. to living in Iran in June despite co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pushing back and pointing out how the Iranian regime has treated women.

Goldberg compared living in the U.S. to living in Iran in June. ABC

Griffin said, “In the year 2025 in the United States is nothing like if I step foot wearing this outfit into Iran right now.”

“It is the same,” Goldberg said. “Murdering someone for their difference is not good whoever does it.”


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Griffin reiterated her point and repeated that living in the U.S. in 2025 was “very different” than living in Iran.

“Not if you’re Black,” Goldberg insisted, and Hostin added, “not for everybody.”

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to members of the Republican Party, at Trump National Doral Miami in Miami, Florida, U.S., March 9, 2026. REUTERS

Goldberg said Monday that Trump was sending Americans to war to “lose their lives.”

“Basically, we are sending people in to lose their lives,” she warned. “Because we have seen how fighting goes. We knew we shouldn’t have gone into Afghanistan. We knew that, and they decided to do it anyway.

“So, now we are in the same position where someone who doesn’t seem to care that human beings are being sent to war and people’s sons and daughters. His kids aren’t going,” Goldberg said, referring to Trump.


Ana Navarro slams AG Pam Bondi on ‘The View,’ says Trump’s cabinet “sold their souls to be in the circle of power”


The View hosts slammed Attorney General Pam Bondi and other members of President Trump’s cabinet after she testified before the House Judiciary Committee regarding the Jeffrey Epstein files and other matters related to the Department of Justice, which she oversees.

During a spirited debate about Bondi’s “unacceptable” behavior during the testimony, Ana Navarro gave a somber assessment of Bondi and the rest of Trump’s cabinet.

“They sold their souls in order to be in the circle of power and they know that what they are doing is not right,” she said. “Members of this cabinet, they like the title, they like the frills, they like the perks.”

Sunny Hostin called Bondi out for taking shots at Rep. Jamie Raskin, who she called a “washed-up loser lawyer,” according to reports.

“The facts don’t mean anything to these people,” Whoopi Goldberg reminded her co-host.

Joy Behar noted Bondi’s decision to ridicule the lawmakers during the testimony seemed “very Trumpy.” She compared it to when President Trump once told a reporter, “Be quiet, piggy.”

“It’s the same mentality,” Behar said. “She’s mimicking Trump.”

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Hostin complained Bondi’s behavior during the hearing was “beneath the dignity of the office,” prompting Goldberg to scoff in response.

“If we start talking about ‘beneath the dignity’ we’d be here all day,” she quipped.

Navarro claimed during the show that she has known Bondi “for many years.”

“This was so personally disgusting and disappointing to me,” she said of the AG’s behavior during the hearing. “I knew her in Florida as someone who worked with everybody and was nice and to watch her in this performance as like a high school performance of Lady Macbeth was just unacceptable and a show for Donald Trump.”

Navarro went on to criticize Bondi for refusing to acknowledge the Epstein survivors who were present during the hearing.

“The women have been failed by four different administrations for decades and decades and decades,” Navarro pointed out.

“But she is the one sitting there right now as attorney general ,so you can’t blame it on Merrick Garland,” she continued. “The very least she could have done is turn around and say, ‘You know what I’m sorry we haven’t contacted you. You can be at the DOJ this afternoon.”

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