Whoopi Goldberg is being called out for losing “track of reality” after recent comments that shunned working-class adults' efforts to make enough money to buy a house.
Goldberg, along with her The View co-hosts, discussed the impact of the present economy and rising inflation on Generation Z and millennials on a recent show.
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"Every generation comes and wants to do better than their parents did,” Goldberg said. "But I'm sorry: If you only want to work four hours, it's going to be harder for you to get a house.”
"I feel for everybody that feels this,” she added. “We had to bust our behinds because we didn't have the option of going back.”
Whoopi is so nice to comment while making more in an hour than most working people do in two or three months.
— travis hoolihand (@TravisHman) November 14, 2023
Since making those comments, Goldberg has been blasted online for becoming “out of touch.”
“Whoopi is so nice to comment while making more in an hour than most working people do in two or three months,” one comment read on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“[Whoopi] is so out of touch smfh,” another comment said.
Another person wrote, “More spoiled rich celebs patronizing others. How many hours does Whoop ‘work’? (And sitting in a trailer waiting for other to put production together doesn’t count!!) LOADS of [people] WORK HARDER than Whoopi or Kim K & won’t ever earn a fraction of what those two have been handed.”
“When you’ve been rich for so long, you really do lose track of reality for the average citizen,” an X user also said, rejecting the notion of being called lazy.
The backlash to Whoopi’s comments comes as total credit card debt in the United States hit a record high of $1.08 trillion in the third quarter, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported earlier this month.
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Inflation was running at a 3.7% annual rate in September, according to the consumer price index, nearly double the central bank’s target. In October, inflation dropped half a percentage point to 3.2%. In 2022, people saw the biggest price increases in decades, with inflation clocking in above 9% at one point.
While the Biden administration has touted inflation’s slowing from its peak last year, Republican lawmakers note that price growth is still above the Fed’s 2% goal and inflation, when viewed from its pre-pandemic baseline, has exploded far beyond what is deemed healthy.