There are plenty of beefs between politics and Hollywood, as everyone knows. There are stars on both sides of the aisle who promote their favorite candidates, which always leads to gaining or losing fans. And there are politicians who go after actors for even having opinions.
Heck, we’ve even seen actors BECOME politicians, and vice versa. Governator, anyone?
But current events make this paradigm hard to maintain because of Donald Trump. If you support him, it’s not like supporting Reagan or Schwarzenegger (both actors). And of course, if you’re a Republican facing off against Trump, you’re in an even more untenable position.
That’s where Nikki Haley is sitting right now.
At this point, every Republican candidate, be they for or against Donald Trump, should expect criticism from ABC’s The View. And the loudest voice on that show is also the most experienced — Whoopi Goldberg.
In fact, she’s not just experienced in punditry, she’s one of only 18 people in the history of the world to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.
So when she criticized Nikki Haley for her pointless campaign against Donald Trump, who had all but sewn up the nomination before the primary season even started, she wasn’t coming from a place of naivety.
Nikki thought she was, however.
After Whoopi rhetorically asked on a recent episode of The View “Nikki, what have you done? What have you done, really? What can you point to?” Nikki was apoplectic.
In an interview on Fox News, Nikki blustered “I’ve done quite a bit. I will tell you, as governor, we accomplished a lot, as U.N. ambassador, we accomplished a lot. I did a whole lot more than Whoopi Goldberg will ever do, and it is not the ladies on The View that I ever care to impress.”
She went on:
At the end of the day, I’m fighting or every American’s vote. This is a chance to get our party right. The party that leaves their 80-year-old candidate behind is the party that will win. Mark my words. It is hugely important that we get a new generational conservative leader in the White House that leaves the baggage and the negativity behind.
Haley’s point, of course, is that she wants to be the bulwark against what many Americans have seen as a battle between two old guys, Trump and Biden, and be a fresh face in a tired old political machine.
But her diatribe was pretty short on details. Honestly, it left Whoopi’s question largely unanswered: What has Nikki Haley done?
Not much, we reckon.