Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany erupted Thursday while discussing comments “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg made about Iran, detailing abuses by the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Goldberg claimed that black people were as bad off in the U.S. as women and gay people were in Iran after “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin outlined the human rights violations the theocratic regime was responsible for. McEnany, a former White House press secretary in the first Trump administration, discussed one prominent victim of the Iranian regime during a segment on “Outnumbered.”
“It’s time to educate Whoopi Goldberg. Let’s meet Mahsa Amini. Mahsa Amini, we have her picture, she was in Iran, 22 years old,” McEnany said. “She did not wear her hijab, so of course, the morality police arrested her in Iran. She died in a re-education class in prison where she was physically abused by Iranian authorities. So, apparently, this is where Whoopi would like to be.”
Amini’s death while in the custody of Iran’s morality police for improperly wearing her hijab, a headscarf worn by some Moslem women to cover their hair, sparked mass protests and a human rights probe from the United Nations.
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“She would not have the privilege of being on a talk show without her hijab, and talking about the Iranian regime, challenging them and criticizing them any day of the week,” former MTV host Kennedy said. “That is what Whoopi Goldberg experiences in the United States as a successful black woman. In fact, the laws against women especially going out and assembling in order to fight authoritarianism in Iran. That’s met with death. You can receive the maximum penalty is death, not only for political protest, but also if you are in a same-sex relationship. The government can kill you. In this country, we have Pride month. If she can’t recognize the difference, she should not be on the air disseminating this.”
“Yeah, and they do kill you. Harris, listen to this from PBS based on a UN report. The Iranian government cracked down and killed 500 people, 200,000 detained, this included children,” McEnany added. “This is hard to listen to, but apparently, they kill people with shotguns, assault rifles, submachine guns and a pattern of shooting people intentionally in the eye, some of those detained faced sexual violence, including rape, threat of rape, forced nudity, groping and electrocution of their genitals. Welcome to Iran, Whoopi Goldberg, but apparently it’s harder to live in this country.”
Harris Faulkner, who described appearing as an extra in a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” scene with Goldberg in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation, took aim at the actress in response to McEneny’s comments.
“This is 2025, I don’t know she knows that. That’s not to say bad things did not happen previously in this country, but on June 10th, Juneteenth, excuse me, where we recognize the emancipation from slavery, Texas, the last state, on this particular day, and she does that the day before, she is ignorant of the facts,” Faulkner said. “I want to try to be kind because my expectation for Whoopi Goldberg is lowered. I liked her better when she was playing on, you know, an actress on ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ where her was based off this planet in space with aliens. Now she’s become one. Read, learn.”
“She says a lot of offensive things, it’s what they are about. It’s why people look at that show and go ‘I can’t watch it anymore,’ but this goes beyond the pale,” Faulkner continued. “Because if you can’t see where we are coming from, then you have no hope for where we can go. That is as racist as anything else I’ve heard.”
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