Whoopi’s Flood of Honesty: When Not Blaming Trump Becomes “Shocking”

It says a lot about the state of the media when simply not blaming President Donald Trump for a natural disaster is headline-worthy.

We’ve grown used to it by now. In today’s media landscape, anything that happens while a Republican is in the White House somehow becomes their fault. A hurricane? Trump’s fault. Gas prices spike? That’s Trump. Milk too expensive? Blame Trump. Your phone battery won’t hold a charge? Let’s check Mar-a-Lago.

That’s why a recent moment on ABC’s The View made more than a few heads turn—and not in the usual cringe-inducing way. Whoopi Goldberg, of all people, actually said something that left her stunned: she didn’t blame President Trump for the tragic flooding in Texas.

You read that right. The woman who has spent years refusing to even utter the man’s name without visibly recoiling actually acknowledged that maybe, just maybe, Trump isn’t to blame for a 26-foot rise in the Guadalupe River in under 45 minutes.

From The Daily Wire:

“It’s important, I think, for everyone to understand — and I’m shocked that this is coming out of my mouth. I’m not pointing a finger at the man in the White House,” Goldberg said. “I’m saying there’s a state that is in trouble and has been. And it doesn’t seem like anything is changing. And maybe we need to get on top of that.”

Now let’s be clear—this wasn’t some kumbaya moment where The View suddenly became a bastion of reasoned political debate. But it was a rare flicker of self-awareness, and in this media climate, that’s practically a miracle.

Unfortunately, it didn’t last long.

Joy Behar, never one to pass up a chance to keep the anti-Trump flame burning, jumped right in to remind the audience that “Trump does it all the time,” referring to assigning blame. In her mind, that made it perfectly acceptable for her to point fingers, too. Apparently, “when they go low, we dig deeper” is the new mantra.

Then came Sunny Hostin, who managed to outdo even Behar in the race to politicize tragedy. According to NewsBusters, Hostin claimed—again, without a shred of evidence—that Kerr County failed to install flood sirens because they supposedly spent the money on border security.

Yes, because everything from weather patterns to breakfast cereal must now be tied to immigration policy.

But the real kicker? Whoopi’s own surprise that she wasn’t blaming Trump.

This wasn’t a throwaway comment. She literally said she was shocked to hear the words come out of her mouth. That’s how low the bar has fallen. When basic human decency and nonpartisan thinking accidentally slip through, it feels like a glitch in the Matrix.

This wasn’t a debate about FEMA response time or infrastructure spending or even state-level preparedness. It was a knee-jerk instinct to politicize tragedy—and Whoopi’s rare moment of restraint was treated like a meteor landing on set.

And look, credit where credit is due—Goldberg could’ve taken the easy route and gone along with the standard blame game. Instead, she acknowledged that the issue was local and longstanding, and that maybe now is the time for solutions, not finger-pointing.

But even her moment of clarity tells us something else: The culture of media bias is so deeply ingrained that avoiding it feels like breaking some unwritten code.

The Texas floods are heartbreaking. More than 100 lives lost. Entire communities devastated. It should be a time for national unity, problem-solving, and empathy. But in the media bubble that The View inhabits, the bigger concern seemed to be why the go-to scapegoat wasn’t being hauled out of the barn this time.

Let’s not lose sight of what matters. This wasn’t a Trump policy failure. This was a natural disaster. One that calls for competent emergency planning, better communication infrastructure, and maybe even bipartisan cooperation—crazy idea, I know.

The sad truth is, moments like Whoopi’s shouldn’t be shocking. They should be normal. It shouldn’t be news when a media figure refrains from unfairly blaming a political opponent. That should be the bare minimum.

Maybe this is a turning point. Maybe the next time disaster strikes, some in the media will think twice before pulling out the political daggers. And maybe, just maybe, fair treatment of conservative leaders will stop being treated like a once-in-a-generation solar eclipse.

But let’s not hold our breath.