whoopi goldberg has been anti-trump from the beginning, so it is no wonder that she has become even more vocal since he became our country<u+2019>s president-elect. according to mediate, goldberg just spent an entire episode of the view complaining about trump<u+2019>s appointment of jeff sessions to attorney general. fellow host sunny hostin also issued her objection, claiming session <u+201c>sets the tone [for racism] and it goes all the way down.<u+201d> she added that her friends in the civil rights division have already started looking for other jobs, fearful the trump administration will cut their funding. to back her claims, hostin cited incidents like sessions calling a black federal prosecutor <u+201c>a boy<u+201d> and indicating that a white lawyer looking for black clients was a <u+201c>race traitor.<u+201d> goldberg enthusiastically agreed. <u+201c>this does not make me optimistic. this pisses me off,<u+201d> goldberg argued. <u+201c>we have fought in this country ever since<u+2014>the people talk about <u+2018>you try to put stuff behind you.<u+2019> listen: the native americans who were here before everybody had trouble, okay? so we tried to fix that, we tried to make it better<u+2026>and if you<u+2019>re talking about <u+2018>it<u+2019>s a backward move to do civil rights,<u+2019> why are you even running? why don<u+2019>t you just stay home if that<u+2019>s how you feel?<u+201d> <u+201c>this is america<u+2014>black people are not going anywhere, they are not going to be slaves anymore, so take that out of your head,<u+201d> she continued. <u+201c>muslims who were born here are americans are not going anywhere. we<u+2019>re not going anywhere. i don<u+2019>t  know why you don<u+2019>t get this part!<u+201d> twitter quickly erupted with disgust at goldberg<u+2019>s claims. watch the segment below and tell us what you think. is she officially losing it?
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