Sometimes nothing can be said.
After a long dispute with “The View” co-host Meghan McCain on Tuesday, Whoopi Goldberg stopped for three full seconds to process and got a simple but measured response: “Okay.”
The sentiment resonated with home viewers, and a clip of the moment quickly garnered more than 1.6 million views when it made Whoopi’s name the list of Twitter’s most popular topics.
McCain’s comments came during a discussion of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Sunday night interview with Oprah Winfrey and British television personality Piers Morgan, who stormed “Good Morning Britain” on Tuesday after being called to question Markle’s revelations about his mental health struggles. .
McCain took the conversation in a new direction. He wrote about the American Revolution and how he loves visiting Mount Vernon in Virginia as “the birthplace of our founding fathers,” explaining that he does not want to defend the monarchy because it is a 100% American red-blooded that celebrates freedom in every way I can. ” He then discussed a generational divide in the UK between the way young and old see the monarchy and encouraged “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 are finishing on their own what George Washington and our revolutionary counterparts did, I’m all in favor. “, he concluded.
Goldberg offered an “OK” before posting an ad, saying, “I guess we’ll talk more about it when we get back.”
While the show’s panel is known to be fighting, the particularly tense moments between Goldberg and McCain have often gone over the Internet.
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