The View's battle cry in opposition to doubtlessly dangerous financial tariffs proposed by the Donald Trump administration is, apparently, "The Hokey Pokey."

Whoopi Goldberg and Alyssa Farah Griffin invoked the mystic energy of the 200-year-old participatory kids's dance on Tuesday's episode of the discuss present, because the panel broke down Trump's ongoing commerce conflict with Canada and Mexico over deliberate tariffs on imports.

Griffin, the conservative cohost who beforehand labored amongst Trump's White Home communications workforce throughout his first presidential time period, engaged within the impassioned Sizzling Subjects dialogue by declaring that "when Trump was reelected, individuals voted for him on the financial system and decreasing the price of dwelling," although "all the market positive factors that he acquired after Election Day have now plummeted since he's truly been in workplace and governing."

Whoopi Goldberg gets annoyed at View producer for playing music as she speaks: 'You like to play that music, don’t you?'

In a prelude to Goldberg's musical opus, Griffin noticed that "this time, he's launched tariffs in a way more sweeping method, and the market is reacting accordingly," she stated.

Griffin tried to elaborate on her level, although the ability of track was too forceful for Goldberg to comprise.

"If you inform companies you can not plan as a result of at the moment there's tariffs, [the next day] there's not," Griffin stated, with Goldberg chopping in to notice, "It's like 'The Hokey Pokey!'"

Goldberg then flexed her powerhouse pipes as she sang — to the tune of "The Hokey Pokey" — "You place the tariffs in! You place the tariffs out! You place the tariffs in, and also you shake all of them about!"

Griffin smiled as she performed alongside, transferring her arms out and in as she grinned by way of the sonic journey that pierced The View's airspace — which, for as soon as, didn’t embody interruptive noises from Pleasure Behar's cellular phone, unknown entities floating over Goldberg's head, or Sara Haines swearing on air.

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On a critical be aware, Goldberg later criticized "the Hokey Pokey-ism of all of this whole administration" that she felt would "begin bothering" Republicans who beforehand voiced assist for Trump, on condition that his insurance policies stand to affect the financial system in vital methods.

Elsewhere, Goldberg and Griffin's razzle-dazzle of a duet is hardly the primary musical manufacturing The View has placed on amid critical developments. Cohost Ana Navarro mounted a one-woman residency in April 2023, when she led the viewers in a gaggle sing-along of Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" in celebration of Tucker Carlson's exit from Fox Information.

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC. Watch Goldberg lead the cohosts in a "Hokey Pokey" dance within the video on the high of this put up.