Whoopi Goldberg criticized President Donald Trump’s proposed $5,000 baby bonus during the April 23 edition of The View. In response, Fox News anchor Julie Banderas made a vulgar comment.
On Wednesday’s Outnumbered, Banderas aired a clip of the The View discussion about Trump’s plan, which offers $5,000 to new mothers to encourage childbirth. Goldberg expressed her disapproval, saying, “I am incredibly insulted by this because clearly they don’t know how women’s bodies work,” and added, “I don’t know what $5,000 is supposed to do!”
After the clip, Banderas sarcastically remarked, “Isn’t she lovely?” She then insulted Goldberg further, saying, “Such a shame she’s not a mother. I feel like she would have been the best role model. Thank God she did not do IVF because I don’t think she’d find somebody to actually physically impregnate her is what I’m trying to get at there.”
To clarify, Goldberg does have a child, Alexandrea “Alex” Martin, whom she gave birth to in 1973 during her marriage to Alvin Martin. They divorced in 1979.
Despite her insult, Banderas partially agreed with Goldberg’s stance on child-rearing costs. She commented, “Raising children is really expensive. I’ll take that $5,000, but that’ll get me through like two weeks,” blaming the issue on inflation under former President Joe Biden. Banderas later backtracked, saying, “And obviously, I’m kidding about Whoopi Goldberg. I think it would be great if she had a child. I would just hope maybe she would raise her children a little better. She has one kid, but I don’t know. We don’t know much about that one person.”
In fact, Goldberg’s daughter, Alex, is an actress and film producer. Alex recently worked as an associate producer on the 2018 short film Sensitive Men. She also appeared as a guest co-host on The View several times between 2015 and 2018. Alex is married to Bernard Dean and has three children and a grandchild. This makes Goldberg not only a mother but also a grandmother and a great-grandmother.
