Whoopi Goldberg Slams J.D. Vance for Calling Kamala Harris and AOC ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ ‘You never had a baby; your wife had a baby’

“The View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg launched a fierce tirade against Donald Trump’s V.P. pick, J.D. Vance, over a resurfaced interview clip where the Ohio senator derogatorily referred to Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “childless cat ladies” on the political left.

During Wednesday’s episode of the talk show, the 68-year-old Oscar-winning actress expressed her outrage at Vance’s controversial remarks from a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, which went viral following Trump’s announcement of Vance as his running mate.

“Sir, there are people who have chosen not to have children for whatever reason. There are people who want to have children who cannot. How dare you. You never had a baby; your wife had a baby. But, you never had a baby, so you know nothing about this. How dare you. Women? You heard how he thinks of you. This is not good for you, J.D. Now, what the hell?” Goldberg exclaimed after the show played a clip from the three-year-old discussion.

In the clip, Vance said, “We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

Vance specifically named Harris, Ocasio-Cortez, and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg as examples of people he disapproves of. “How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people that don’t really have a direct stake in it?” Vance asked Carlson.

Sunny Hostin, The View’s legal expert, called Vance’s comments “a very myopic view” of the country and highlighted the significant voting block of Gen Z Americans “that don’t have children yet” as those who should also be offended by Vance.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, who previously worked for Trump’s White House communications team, cited infertility and miscarriage rates in the United States as additional reasons why Vance shouldn’t have targeted childless people. “How dare you denigrate them and say they are not as valuable or have as much of a stake,” Griffin said.

Cohost Joy Behar urged Vance to focus on issues like gun control and climate change to protect future generations of children rather than criticizing people without kids who still have a voting voice. “In Project 2025, those things are going to be right out the window,” she added. “Stop lecturing us on children.”

Goldberg concluded the segment by reminding Vance of historical figures who made significant impacts on American politics despite not having biological children. “You know who else didn’t have [biological] kids? George Washington, the father of our nation. You know what he did? Like Kamala, he raised Martha’s children. He raised them with her,” Goldberg said. “James Polk had no children, James Buchanan, Andrew Jackson [had no biological children] because none of them could have kids. Children are very important to us as a nation … we pay taxes not for the stuff that’s for us, but how we help other people.”

Calling step-mom Kamala Harris a childless cat lady is going to enrage not just single women but all the parents of step-kids who are having their parenting denigrated. Vance's history of misogyny is just an endless wellspring of hate to highlight. https://t.co/yccbf7E0To

— Nathan Newman 🧭 (@nathansnewman) July 22, 2024