The talk show personality put Leavitt in her place.

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On Wednesday (Jan. 29), Whoopi Goldberg shared her frustration with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt after Leavitt dismissed “wokeness” during a recent briefing. While discussing the since-rescinded federal funding freeze memo, the Trump appointee used it as an opportunity to attack left-leaning ideology.

Leavitt commented that the “pause” would mean that funds would be divested from “transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.” However, “The View” host had some harsh words regarding this reasoning.

“She said there will be no wokeness,’’ Goldberg began. “Let me explain something to you because without that wokeness, you might not have that job because women were not invited to that table. Women were not invited to many tables in this nation. The reason we fought and busted our behinds to make sure that you didn’t have to worry about this.”

Goldberg also reminded folks that there was a reason for wokeness, since there was a time that Black people and women are allowed to attend college. In fact, white women are the ones who benefit the most from affirmative action—a fact that Leavitt refused to acknowledge.

“Women were not invited to this party. It was a man’s world, and we busted our a**** to make sure that this was a person’s world,” Goldberg continued.

“So please, please stop using that phrase…because you don’t understand what you’re saying. You’re saying, about yourself, that, you know, ‘Hey, that’s a terrible thing to be.’ It’s not a terrible thing to be. That’s why we fought. That’s what we were fighting for.”

Goldberg pointed out Joe Biden’s White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who was the first Black person and first openly LGBTQ person to be appointed to the role, as an example for “women of all kinds of colors and ilks” to have the “opportunity to bust down that door.”